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Tim Wu is a senior lawyer and special adviser at the Office of the New York State Attorney General. He is currently on a leave of absence from Columbia Law School, where he is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, director of the Poliak Center for the First Amendment at Columbia Journalism School, and a regular contributor for ''The New Yorker''.〔 〕 He is also a former Bernard L. Schwartz and Future Tense fellow at The New America Foundation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://newamerica.net/events/2012/who_should_govern_the_internet )〕 He is best known for coining the phrase network neutrality in his paper ''Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination'', and popularizing the concept thereafter, leading in part to the 2010 passage of a federal Net Neutrality rule.〔(NETWORK NEUTRALITY, BROADBAND DISCRIMINATION by Tim Wu )〕 Wu has also made significant contributions to wireless communications policy, most notably with his "Carterfone" proposal. Wu is a scholar of the media and technology industries, and his academic specialties include antitrust, copyright, and telecommunications law. In 2013, Wu was named to National Law Journal's "America's 100 Most Influential Lawyers," and also to the "Politico 50" in years 2014 and 2015. Additionally, Wu was named one of ''Scientific Americans 50 people of the year in 2006, and in 2007 Wu was named one of Harvard University's 100 most influential graduates by ''02138'' magazine.〔 His book ''The Master Switch'' was named among the best books of 2010 by ''The New Yorker'' magazine,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Reviewer's Favorites )〕 ''Fortune'' magazine, ''Publishers Weekly'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】Best Books of 2010 )〕 and other publications. From 2011 to 2012, Wu served as a Senior Advisor to the Federal Trade Commission.〔("Professor Tim Wu Named Advisor to Federal Trade Commission on Consumer Protection, Competition" ), ''Columbia University Public Affairs'', New York, Feb. 8, 2011〕 Wu has recently appeared on the television programs (''The Colbert Report'' ) and (''Charlie Rose'' ). ==Early life== Wu was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Basel, Switzerland and Toronto, Canada. His father, Alan Ming-ta Wu, was from Taiwan and his mother, Gillian Wu, is British-Canadian. They both studied as immunologists at the University of Toronto. Wu and his younger brother were sent to alternative schools that emphasized creativity. At school, he befriended Cory Doctorow.〔 Wu's father died in 1980 and his mother bought him and his brother an Apple II computer using some of the insurance money, starting Wu's fascination with computers.〔 Wu attended McGill University, where he initially studied biochemistry〔 and later switched his major to biophysics.〔 He graduated from McGill with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1995 and received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1998. At Harvard, he studied under copyright scholar Lawrence Lessig.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tim Wu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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