Maida, Elisabeth M. (Elisabeth Marigo)(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Interconnection agreements in the telecommunications industry have always been constrained by regulation. Internet interconnection has not received the same level of scrutiny. Recent debates regarding proposed mergers, ...
Wood, Sarah J(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Not-for-profit funding from wealthy individuals and their foundations is widely used to support science and engineering research within the university, but is not currently being used to fund the translation of those ideas ...
Smith, Ariadne G. (Ariadne Geneviève)(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
This thesis explores the application of open design to the process of developing physical products. Open design is a type of decentralized innovation that is derived from applying principles of open source software and ...
Nag, Sreeja(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Crowdsourcing is being researched as a technique to develop small-scale spaceflight software by issuing open calls for solutions to large crowds of people with the incentive of prizes. There is widespread investment of ...
Copeland, Christopher Michael, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
After the end of World War II, the world entered an even more turbulent period as it faced the beginnings of the Cold War, during which the prospect of mutually assured destruction between the world's largest nuclear weapon ...