Background
Mayer-Schönberger was born in 1966 in Zell am See, where his mother owned a local cinema.
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Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
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After leaving secondary school in his hometown, he studied law for seven terms at the University of Salzburg.
Career
He conducts research into the network economy. Earlier he spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard"s John F. Kennedy School of Government. During this time, he competed successfully in the International Physics Olympiad and the Austrian Young Programmers Contest.
In 1986, he founded Ikarus Software and developed Virus Utilities, one of the best-selling software products in Austria.
He subsequently earned law degrees at the University of Salzburg (Magiur, "88, Doctor iur "91) and at Harvard Law School (Master of Laws "89). In 1992 he received a Master of Science
(Economy) from the London School of Economics, and in 2001 the venia docendi on (among others) information law at the University of Graz. He also worked in his father"s accounting business.
In 1998 he joined the faculty of Harvard Kennedy School, where he worked and taught for ten years.
After three years at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Mayer-Schönberger currently holds the Chair of Internet Governance and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute. As an expert on information law and regulation, he has been advising businesses, governments and international organisations.
Achievements
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1991 - Top-5 Software Entrepreneur in Austria 2000 - Person of the Year for the State of Salzburg 2010 - Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the field of media ecology 2010 - Don K. Price Award 2013 - Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, shortlisted for Big Data.
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Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (Princeton University Press) (Paperback) - Common
(Looks at the phenomenon of perfect remembering in the dig...)
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Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (Princeton University Press) (Paperback) - Common
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Austria