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Brad Cox

May 28, 1998

I am pleased to announce that Taming the Electronic Frontier won the $25,000 Paul Allen Foundation Distance Education Competition

Jul 28, 1998

I will be leaving GMU and returning to industry at the end of the year. This is the last time these courses will be offered by GMU.

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Experiential immersion in the technocentric and sociocentric issues of taming the electronic frontier.

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Proprietary Networks

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