"Jefferson's Moose" Author David Post

Leading intellectual property scholar and Temple law professor David Post discussed his new book, "In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace," during a lecture at the Law School on Oct. 14. "In Search of Jeffersons Moose" recreates Thomas Jefferson's "Notes on the State of Virginia," this time for the Internet — cyberspace filtered through Jeffersons eyes and Jefferson's ideas. Along the way, we learn some pretty interesting things about the Internet, and about Jefferson — about growth and scale in populations and networks, about network design and Jeffersons plan for governing the Western Territory, about the protocol stack and the canals of France, about distributed routing, end-to-end design and the Louisiana Purchase. And about why Jefferson had a moose shipped to him in Paris while he was serving as U.S. minister to France, and why we should care about that.

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