Max Loubser is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute. His research interests include peer/collaborative knowledge production, future Internet architectures and network and information security.
He holds a BSc degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa and a Master’s degree in Internetworking from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He joined Oxford University in October 2005 as a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College.
His current work is related to the social structure of Wikipedia and similar collaborative projects.
Addressing the uncertainties that surround the coordination and performance of 'Distributed Problem Solving Networks' (DPSN), as well as the areas in which these new Internet-based forms offer advantages over more familiar modes of problem-solving.
10 May 2010
Max Loubser is the first OII doctoral student to receive his doctoral thesis. His thesis investigates the importance of governance mechanisms in the development (and future viability) of the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
