Abstract
Imperial Business School and the Data Science Institute are honoured and delighted to host Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, co-author of the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award shortlisted Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think (HMH, 2013) and author of Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (Princeton, 2009), which won the 2010 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book and the 2010 Don K. Price Award for Best Book in Science and Technology Politics.
Biography
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is the Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy. Earlier he spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Professor Mayer-Schönberger has published seven books, as well as over a hundred articles (including in Science) and book chapters. He is on the advisory boards of corporations and organizations around the world, including Microsoft and the World Economic Forum, and is also a personal advisor to the Austrian Finance Minister on innovation policy.
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