17 Facts About Edward Felten

Edward William Felten was born on March 25,1963 and is the Robert E Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where he was the Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy from 2007 to 2015 and from 2017 to 2019.

Edward Felten attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a degree in Physics in 1985.

Edward Felten worked as a staff programmer at Caltech from 1986 to 1989 on a parallel supercomputer project at Caltech.

Edward Felten then enrolled as a graduate student in Computer Science at the University of Washington.

Edward Felten was awarded a Master of Science degree in 1991 and a Ph.

Edward Felten was promoted to Associate Professor in 1999 and to Professor in 2003.

Edward Felten has served as a consultant to law firms, corporations, private foundations, and government agencies.

Edward Felten demonstrated his team's tool in court, showing 19 ways in which it is normally possible to access the web browser from the Windows platform that his team's tool rendered inaccessible.

Microsoft argued that Edward Felten's changes did not truly remove Internet Explorer but only made its functionality inaccessible to the end user by removing icons, shortcuts and the iexplore.

Microsoft argued that Edward Felten's tool did not even completely remove web-browsing capability from the system since it was still possible to access the web through other Windows executables besides iexplore.

Edward Felten chose to opt out of confidentiality agreements that would have made his team eligible for the cash prize.

SDMI did not accept that Edward Felten had successfully broken the watermark according to the rules of the contest, noting that there was a requirement for files to lose no sound quality.

Edward Felten's team developed a scientific paper explaining the methods used by his team in defeating the SDMI watermarks.

Edward Felten withdrew the presentation from the workshop, reading a brief statement about the threats instead.

Edward Felten, with help from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, sued the groups, requesting a declaratory judgement ruling that their publication of the paper would be legal.

Edward Felten presented his paper at the USENIX security conference in 2001.

In November 2010, Edward Felten was named the first Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission, for which he took a one-year leave of absence from Princeton University.