Science & Technology

New technologies—from Internet advances to artificial intelligence to synthetic biology and many more—are transforming the global economy and are offering unmatched opportunities to alleviate poverty, raise economic growth, treat disease, and improve lives all over the world. But they also fuel new geopolitical competition and pose unprecedented governance challenges to domestic political institutions. Hoover scholars conduct original research, bring together private sector and public sector leaders, and develop policy recommendations.

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A Deeper Dive into Space

June 18, 2024 By Herbert Lin, Walter J. Manuel, Tommaso Guffanti, Isobel Porteous, Nicolas Lee, Simone D’Amico

via Hoover Institution Press

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The Hoover Institution Joins NSF-Backed SECURE Initiative To Support Research Security, International Collaboration

July 24, 2024 with Condoleezza Rice, Glenn Tiffert

via Hoover Daily Report

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Introducing The Stanford Emerging Technology Review

The start of a journey to understand, explain, and use tomorrow’s transformational tech.

November 14, 2023 By Condoleezza Rice , John B. Taylor , Jennifer Widom , Amy Zegart

via Defining Ideas

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Work From Home, AI, And The Labor Market: What’s Next?

July 1, 2024 By Steven J. Davis

via Economic Innovation Group

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US Cyber Strategy

July 11, 2024 By Jacquelyn Schneider

via PolicyEd

Congressional Testimony

M. Todd Henderson: Competition in the Digital Advertising Ecosystem

May 3, 2023 with M. Todd Henderson

via Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, & Consumer Rights

Fellows in this Policy Area

Terry Anderson

John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow (adjunct)

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Terry Anderson

John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow (adjunct)

Terry L. Anderson has been a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1998 and is currently the John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow (adjunct). He is the past president of the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, MT, and a Professor Emeritus at Montana State University where he won many teaching awards during his 25 year career. Anderson is one of the founders of “free market environmentalism,” the idea of using markets and property rights to solve environmental problems, and in 2015 published the third edition of his co-authored book by that title. He is author or editor of 39 books, including most recently, Unlocking the Wealth of Indian Nations (2016), exploring the institutional underpinnings of American Indian reservation economies. In addition to publishing in professional journals, Terry Anderson speaks around the world and is often featured in the popular press, including frequent editorials in the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Anderson received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1972 and has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University, Basel University, Clemson University, and Cornell, and a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Canterbury. Terry is an avid outdoorsman who enjoys fly fishing, hiking, skiing, horseback riding, and archery hunting.

John Villasenor

Senior Fellow (adjunct)

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John Villasenor

Senior Fellow (adjunct)

John Villasenor was a senior fellow (adjunct) at the Hoover Institution and is also on the faculty at UCLA, where he is a professor of electrical engineering, public policy, law, and management. Villasenor’s work considers the technology, policy, and legal issues arising from key technology trends, including the growth of artificial intelligence and the increasing complexity and interdependence of today’s networks and systems. He has published in the Atlantic, Billboard, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Fast Company, Forbes, the Huffington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Scientific American, Slate, the Washington Post, and many academic journals. He has also provided congressional testimony on multiple occasions on topics including privacy and intellectual property law. Before joining the faculty at UCLA, Villasenor was with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he developed methods of imaging the earth from space. He holds a BS from the University of Virginia and an MS and PhD from Stanford University. Villasenor is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an affiliate at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford.