Editor’s note: Jim Manzi is the author of “Uncontrolled: the Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society.” He is the founder and chairman of Applied Predictive Technologies, a global provider of predictive analytics software. Manzi is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor at...

Educational software and virtual schools, which play to teens' technological strengths, have the potential to transform secondary education if endorsed by the federal government.

How secure are our software networks?

An assessment of software security, usinga law and economics framework.

It has been reported that the Obama campaign this year, as in 2008, has disabled or chosen not to use AVS in screening contributions made by credit card. That doesn't sound very important. But it's evidence of a modus operandi that strikes me as thuggish.

This book addresses issues raised by the rapid growth of open source software, including government subsidies for research and development and patent and copyright policy.

Some foreign governments have implemented policies favoring open-source software--software usually available without charge that individual users are free to modify--over proprietary software.