Hal Abelson -- What I'm doing

• Directing the MIT App Inventor project.
• Co-Directing the MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative
• Teaching 6.805: Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier
• Part-time research scientist at Google.
• Member of MIT OpenCourseWare Faculty Advisory Committee
• Founding director and currently advisor to Creative Commons.
• Founding director of the Free Software Foundation

Here are some other things I've done in the past:

• Member of the MIT Press Management Board
• Member of the faculty advisory committee for MIT OpenCourseWare
• Co-directed the MIT Educational Technology Council.
• Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology
• Served on the steering committee for the MIT/Hewett-Packard Alliance, 1999-2004
• Developed a new core course at Harvard for math-averse Harvard undergrads.
• Co-directed Project iCampus, the MIT/Microsoft Alliance for Research in Educational Technology, 2000-2006.
• Served as a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar for 2003-2004.
• Worked on an experimental version of MIT's introductory circuit theory course.
• Advisor for Cambridge University's Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies
• Served on MIT's Committee on Outside Professional Activities
• Worked on MIT's release of PGP
• Organized the 1996 Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy. Check out the 2003 CFP Conference at the CFP Web Site.
• I spent 1996 on sabbatical at Hewlett-Packard, serving as Chief Scientist of HP's Internet Technology Group.
• Played clarinet with the MIT Gilbert and Sullivan Players.