Tim Wu
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| Born | 1971/1972 (age 44–45) Washington, D.C. |
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McGill University Harvard Law School |
| Occupation | Professor at Columbia Law School |
| Known for | Net Neutrality |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Kate Judge |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | www |
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| Traditional Chinese | 吳修銘 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 吴修铭 | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Wú Xiūmíng |
| Wade–Giles | Wu2 Hsiu1-ming2 |
| IPA | [ǔ ɕjóumǐŋ] |
Tim Wu is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He is best known for coining the phrase network neutrality in his 2003 paper Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination, and popularizing the concept thereafter. Wu has also made significant contributions to antitrust policy and wireless communications policy, most notably with his "Carterfone" proposal.
Wu is a scholar of the media and technology industries, and his academic specialties include antitrust, copyright, and telecommunications law. Wu was named to The National Law Journal's "America's 100 Most Influential Lawyers" in 2013, as well as to the "Politico 50" in 2014 and 2015. Additionally, Wu was named one of Scientific American's 50 people of the year in 2006, and one of Harvard University's 100 most influential graduates by 02138 magazine in 2007. His book The Master Switch was named among the best books of 2010 by The New Yorker magazine,Fortune magazine,Publishers Weekly, and other publications.
From 2011 to 2012, Wu served as a Senior Advisor to the Federal Trade Commission, and from 2015–2016 he was senior enforcement counsel and special advisor at the New York Office of the Attorney General. In 2016 Wu joined the National Economic Council in the Obama White House to work on competition policy.
Wu was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Basel, Switzerland and Toronto, Canada. His father, Alan Ming-ta Wu, was from Taiwan and his mother, Gillian Wu, is British-Canadian. They both studied as immunologists at the University of Toronto. Wu and his younger brother were sent to alternative schools that emphasized creativity. At school, he befriended Cory Doctorow. Wu's father died in 1980 and his mother bought him and his brother an Apple II computer using some of the insurance money, starting Wu's fascination with computers. Wu attended McGill University, where he initially studied biochemistry and later switched his major to biophysics. He graduated from McGill with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1995 and received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1998. At Harvard, he studied under copyright scholar Lawrence Lessig.
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