Innovative People

John Erickson

I have spent more than a decade studying the unique social, legal, and technical problems that arise when managing and disseminating information in the digital environment. Currently a research engineer with the Tetherless World Constellation (TWC) at RPI, coordinating group projects ranging from the Linking Open Government Data (LOGD) Portal to the TWC US Government Dataset Search application. Previously was a principal investigator on research at Hewlett-Packard Labs focusing on policy-based management and personalization of distributed, heterogeneous digital object repositories, content processing architectures and collaboration systems. Before HP Labs, was the architect for Copyright Direct™, the first real-time, Internet-based service to fully automate the complex copyright permissions process for a variety of media types, and LicensIt/@ttribute, the first digital rights management (DRM) technology to facilitate dialog between content creators and users through the dynamic exchange of metadata.

Hands-on individual contributor, systems architect, project leader, and entrepreneur, with more than a decade of experience creating novel Internet technologies and generating real business value.