John is a Senior Fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. He is also the Chairman and co-founder of Parity Communications, Inc. Parity is the initiator of the SocialPhysics open source project. Prior to Parity, John co-founded LingoMotors, a software company for natural-language search. Previously, he was CEO of Context Media LLC, a knowledge management company, and Director, Intellectual Capital, at Coopers & Lybrand. He is the author/editor of The Biology of Business: Decoding the Natural Laws of Enterprise (Jossey Bass, 1999) and the forthcoming book: Moving to the Edge: Leveraging Trusted Networks. He holds six software patents, and is the author of several books and papers on technology strategy and policy, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics. John has received awards from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense, and has served as an advisor to the Department of State, FCC, OTA, NTIA and the White House. John is a graduate of Yale University and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Senior Fellow at of the Aspen Institute, member of the Highland Forum, and The Santa Fe Institute