Professor of Computer Science, UCLA
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of California-Los Angeles, considered one of the “Fathers of the Internet” for his role in developing its underlying technology, packet-switching, while a PhD student at MIT
WikiLeaks: Is the Internet Creating a New World Disorder? WikiLeaks has shaken up the US, its allies and its enemies by dumping hundreds of thousands of classified documents on the Internet for anybody to see. Yesterday, because of what it called "massive cyber attacks," the company that provided its domain name cut off service. But WikiLeaks has already re-appeared using different addresses. Can it ever be stopped? We put that question to the computer scientist who sent the first Internet message. Is the WikiLeaks document-dump an act of journalism or something else? Are news consumers now on their own? Will WikiLeaks produce greater efforts at secrecy or greater transparency, both public and private?
LRC Live: Taxes, tech and Taylor Swift It’s a special live Left, Right & Center from San Francisco!
Rebecca Traister and the Power of Women’s Anger One of America’s leading feminist writers says women have changed history since Ancient Greece. And, she says, they’ll do it again. The backlash to President Trump was just the beginning. Record numbers of women are running for congress, state governorships and local offices. She tells Warren about her latest book,“Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger.”