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Protocol Town Hall with David Lang | Standards Make the World

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David Lang presents research on technical standards as a critical but underappreciated form of 21st-century entrepreneurship, drawing from his experience developing the Bristlemouth underwater connector standard. Lang argues that standards—from Wi-Fi to screw threads—shape infrastructure and enable interoperability, and explores how to create and establish standards in practice.

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Researcher Salon with Dorian Taylor| Retrofitting the Web

Dorian Taylor presents his summer research on retrofitting the web through an engine for website creation that automates repetitive tasks like navigation, headers, footers, and dynamic content handling. Taylor argues that existing website engines (WordPress, Drupal, Rails, etc.) cannot achieve his specific outcomes, requiring a new approach to introduce denser hypermedia and fix fundamental linking problems on the internet.

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