Andreas Sebastian Weigend (born 1961) is the author of the book ''Data for the People'' (Basic Books, 2017). He was a member of Germany's Digital Council under Merkel, ''Digitalrat''.
Weigend studied physics and philosophy at the
University of Bonn
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and received a PhD in physics from
Stanford University
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in 1991. He was the Chief Scientist at
Amazon.com
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.
References
External links
Personal Website*
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American computer scientists
Living people
1961 births
University of Bonn alumni
Stanford University alumni