William B. Bonvillian is Lecturer at MIT and Senior Director for Special Projects at MIT's Office of Digital Learning. He is the coauthor of five books on innovation policy.He was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is a member of the Babbage Forum on industrial innovation policy at Cambridge University and the Polaris Advisory Council for the GAO's science and technology policy program, and was previously Chair of the standing Committee on Science and Engineering Policy at the AAAS.