Mitchell Kapor
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Mitchell Kapor is an information technology entrepreneur, software designer, angel investor, philanthropist and activist. He is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation, and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the killer application which made the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s.

He was the founding Chair of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the leading civil liberties group defending rights in the digital world; of the Mozilla Foundation, the creator of the open source web browser Firefox; and of Linden Lab, the maker of the online virtual world, Second Life.

He is a Board member of the Mitchell Kapor Foundation (www.mkf.org), whose mission to is ensure fairness and equity, especially in low-income communities of color, and of the Level Playing Field Institute (www.lpfi.org), which promotes innovative approaches to fairness in higher education and workplaces.

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The Real Secret to Controlling Health Care Costs

Posted August 19, 2009 | 03:23 PM (EST)

With the debate on health care reform in full force, it's notable that the proposed bills all focus on extending coverage but do not have credible plans for controlling costs. It's a matter of the greatest national urgency to provide universal coverage, but we can't do it without bending back...

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Redefining Bias in the 21st Century

103 Comments | Posted June 29, 2009 | 11:18 AM (EST)

The U.S. Supreme Court has now issued its opinion in the incendiary case of the New Haven, Conn., firefighters.

The nation's top court came down on the side of the 20 mostly white firefighters who, claiming reverse discrimination, filed suit after not securing promotions despite attaining the highest scores...

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