I am very pleased to be speaking at the The 33rd Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (http://www.tprc.org/TPRC05/2005.htm) next week. I’ll be presenting my paper The “Ham And SDR Sandwich”: Innovation and Enforcement Issues for Free and Open-Source Software on Software-Defined Radio Devices. http://web.si.umich.edu/tprc/papers/2005/480/SDR-HAM-JamesMiller.pdf

I was so happy to have worked on the Software Radio (SDR) and Cognitive Radio issues at the FCC. It was a surreal opportunity to mix my interests in legal theory and Artificial Intelligence, not to mention embedded computing systems and wireless technology.

I’m pretty happy with how the paper turned out except I wasn’t able to be as free with my thinking as I’d liked. I’m working on another article (the continuing saga..) that discusses the role of software and the ability to model rules/standards to extend the current regulatory structure of wireless to be more flexible and enforceable at the same time. If you’re interested in reading drafts, drop me a line. I’ll be posting the draft soon on the website.