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21 Dec 2007
Syracuse Professor Milton Mueller Named First XS4ALL Professor

Milton Mueller, a scholar known for his work on global Internet governance and 
professor at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) at Syracuse University, 
has internationalized his academic post and strengthened ties to the Internet 
industry by accepting a chair at Delft University of Technology in the 
Netherlands. The three-year research position was created by the Dutch Internet 
service provider XS4ALL, and will be located in the Faculty of Technology, 
Policy and Management, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) section.

"The Internet has brought us wonderful new ways of communication and 
interaction, and it has fundamentally changed the way the world works," says 
Niels Huijbregts, head of Public Affairs at XS4ALL. "But our dependence on the 
Internet also brings up issues of security, privacy, and trust in technology. 
The subject very much deserves more academic research, and we´re happy that the 
internationally renowned professor Mueller will be doing the job."

The Professorship, which begins January 1, 2008, is part time; Mueller will 
continue to spend 60 percent of his time at the iSchool at Syracuse. At the 
close of the fall semester, Mueller stepped down as program chair of the M.S. in 
telecommunications and network management at the iSchool, and is working with 
Professor Martha Garcia-Murillo, who takes over the position in January, to 
ensure a smooth transition.

"I am not leaving Syracuse, I am adding Delft," said Mueller, who will teach two 
courses every fall at the iSchool and will continue his work there throughout 
spring and summer through frequent trips. "The appointment complements and 
expands the work we have been doing on Internet governance by deepening our 
research and policy connections to Europe and providing graduate students on 
both continents better opportunities to understand global Internet developments."

"Milton´s prestigious appointment is a wonderful opportunity both for Milton and 
for our school, as we hope to focus on greater internationalization of our 
instructional and research endeavors," says Elizabeth D. Liddy, interim dean of 
the iSchool at Syracuse University. "Given the parallel prestige of the Delft 
University of Technology and the high rankings of the iSchool at Syracuse, I 
know that the students at both institutions will benefit from the synergies 
created by Milton´s dual roles."

XS4ALL has for some time considered creating a chair at one of the Dutch 
universities to encourage research into the security and privacy of Internet 
users. The position will be especially focused on those issues as they pertain 
to the mobile Internet. XS4ALL, one of the first commercial Internet service 
providers in Europe, is renowned for its principled stance towards the privacy 
and free expression rights of its users. The company sees this chair as a 
logical extension of the social responsibility it has taken throughout its history.

"I am proud to be associated with an Internet company with integrity when it 
comes to the freedom and privacy of its users," said Mueller, who will remain a 
professor at the iSchool and director of Syracuse University´s Convergence 
Center. "There is a wealth of knowledge about the Internet and its operational 
issues embedded in its workers, and I look forward to tapping into it."

"The appointment of Milton Mueller will enable us to further strengthen our 
research and education in the area of mobile Internet security and privacy, and 
on Internet governance," said Harry Bouwman, director of ICT section of the 
faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University. "All kinds of 
incidents around identity theft, spam, phishing, organized denial of service 
attacks, illegal content, and the like, make clear that Internet security 
requires the attention of scholars. We are delighted that XS4ALL offers us the 
opportunity to take Milton on board as one of the leading professors in this field."

Mueller is author of Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of 
Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2002) and Universal Service: Competition, Interconnection 
and Monopoly in the Making of the American Telephone System (MIT Press, 1997). 
He is on the international editorial boards of the journals Telecommunications 
Policy, The Information Society, and Info: the journal of policy, regulation and 
strategy for telecommunication, information and media. He serves as a partner of 
the Internet Governance Project, an interdisciplinary consortium of scholars 
dedicated to Internet policy and governance research. Mueller earned a B.A. in 
animation and filmmaking in Columbia College, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in 
communication from Annenberg School of Communications at the University of 
Pennsylvania.