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Provost, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
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BIO: Dr. Erich E. Kunhardt, a Polytechnic Institute of NYU alumnus and former faculty member, has joined the University as provost. Most recently, Kunhardt served as the dean of the Arthur E. Imperatore School of Sciences and Arts and the George Meade Bond Professor of Physics at Stevens Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty at Stevens in 1992 and pioneered the establishment of its Plasma Physics Laboratory.Throughout his career Kunhardt has served on numerous research and development projects relating to particle and plasma physics. While at Stevens, he introduced the original concept and term Technogenesis, whereby students, faculty new technologies from concept to marketplace realization. In 1999, Kunhardt helped create the PlasmaSol Corporation, based upon the Atmospheric Pressure
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Capillary Discharge Plasma technology he developed while at Stevens with Dr. Kurt Becker. He was named a finalist by Discover Magazine’s Innovation Awards (2001) committee in the Environmental Category for the development of the technology used by PlasmaSol Corporation for environmental remediation. In 1984, Kunhardt joined the faculty of Polytechnic Institute of NYU as a professor of electrophysics and physics and director of the Weber Research Institute. Previously, he was a professor of electrical engineering and physics at Texas Tech University.
Kunhardt holds a Ph.D. in Electrophysics from Polytechnic Institute of NYU and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from New York University. In 1992, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Electrophysics. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Thomas A. Edison Patent Award and the Halliburton Foundation Excellence in Research Award. At Texas Tech, he received the Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award.
Professor of Technology and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
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BIO: Jeffrey Hunker joined the H. John Heinz School of Public Policy and Management in May 2001, after serving as the Senior Director for Critical Infrastructure with the Clinton Administration. He brings to the Heinz School expertise in many vital fields of policy and management, such as information technology (specifically information infrastructure security), the environment, corporate and public finance, heavy industry management, and international relations. He has extensive experience in the public sector and has been a significant presence in Washington D.C., New York, Boston and the Silicon Valley. Dr. Hunker attended Harvard University, having graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's degree in engineering and applied physics in 1977, and earning his Ph.D. in 1981 in business administration with a focus on managerial economics. He began his career in the private sector, as a consultant and case leader for The Boston Consulting Group in 1982-1987. |
Dr. Hunker specialized in Japanese corporations, markets and competitions, as well as reorganizing and restructuring manufacturing operations and marketing /distribution systems for industrial firms. In 1987, he went to Kidder Peabody and Co., Inc. in New York City, where he served as Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions until 1993. He built relationships with numerous European and Japanese industrial firms; and created Kidder Peabody's Automotive Group in 1991.
In 1993, Dr. Hunker's career path ventured into the public sphere, when he became the Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of the Department of Commerce, with responsibility for emerging economic growth issues. In 1995, he worked with the White House to organize the Regional Economic Conferences of the President and Vice President.
In 1996, Dr. Hunker became the Deputy Assistant to the Commerce Secretary and Senior Commerce Department official for environmental policy. There he reorganized the department to integrate all environmental interests, and served as the senior US official representing business interests in climate change framework talks and in negotiating with China.
In 1998, Dr. Hunker became the founding director of the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO). CIAO is a unique, high-profile agency within the Commerce Department that was created to coordinate industry and government efforts to improve cyber-security. He established CIAO's strategy and missions as an independent and impartial coordinator of multiple competing federal and private sector interests. Dr. Hunker led CIAO to develop federal oversight, key policies, and new initiatives for cyber-security. He also assisted Congress in its cyber-security agenda, testifying before Members and working closely with them.
For his groundbreaking work in cyber-security, in 1999 Dr. Hunker was recruited by the National Security Council to become the Senior Director for Critical Infrastructure. He led White House planning and implementation of the first-ever national strategy for cyber-security. In January 2000, he produced the Presidential National Plan for Information Systems Protection, Version 1.0, which coordinated the efforts of 21 federal agencies and leading private sector companies in the high-tech, telecommunications, financial services, transportation, energy and defense sectors.
Dr. Hunker organized many Presidential summits, such as the Cyber-Security Summit (February 2000), Washington Summit on Corporate Governance and Critical Infrastructure (April 2000), the Washington Legal Summit on Emerging Legal Issues in Cyber-Security (June 2000). He was also instrumental in creating many important organizations and initiatives, including the Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Security, Expert Federal Cyber-Security Team, Federal Intrusion Detection Network, Federal Cyber-Service, Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection, and Industry Cyber-Security Centers.
Dr. Hunker has written a number of articles on cyber-security policy and technology as well as being the principle author of several government reports and journal articles. He wrote Structural Change in the U.S. Automotive Industry, published by D.C. Heath and Co. in 1982. He is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has been a member since 1991 of the Photography Council through the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Senior researcher, RAND Corporation.
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BIO: Shari Lawrence Pfleeger is a senior researcher at the RAND Corporation, a not-for-profit company doing high-quality, high-impact research in the public interest. At RAND, she works on policy and decision-making issues that help organizations and government agencies understand whether and how information technology supports their mission and goals. From 1982 to 2003, Dr. Pfleeger was president of Systems/Software, Inc., a consultancy specializing in software engineering and technology. From 1997 to 2000, she was also a visiting professor at the University of Maryland's computer science department. She was founder and director of Howard University's Center for Research in Evaluating Software Technology (CREST), and was a visiting scientist at the City University (London) Centre for Software Reliability, principal scientist at MITRE Corporation's Software Engineering Center, and manager of the measurement program at the Contel Technology Center. |
She began her career as a developer and maintainer for real-time, business-critical software systems. Thus, she has experience both with the practical problems of software development and the theoretical underpinnings of software engineering and computer science. Pfleeger is well-known for her work in empirical studies of software engineering and for her multi-disciplinary approach to solving information technology problems.
For several years, Dr. Pfleeger was associate editor-in-chief of IEEE Software, where she edited the Quality Time column, and then associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. From 1998 to 2002, she was a member of the editorial board of Prentice Hall's Software Quality Institute series. A member of IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society, and the Association for Computing Machinery, Pfleeger was elected to the executive committee of the Technical Council on Software Engineering from 1996 to 2000.
Frequently invited to give keynote presentations and tutorials at conferences, Pfleeger was the general chair of the Second International Symposium on Software Metrics (in London, England) and the program co-chair of the Fourth International Symposium on Software Metrics (in Albuquerque, New Mexico). She and Dr. Jarrett Rosenberg (Sun Microsystems) chaired the Workshop on Empirical Studies of Software Engineering, WESS98. Pfleeger was program co-chair of the International Conference on Software Maintenance, held in Amsterdam in 2003.
Distinguished Research Professor,
The George Washington University
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BIO: Lance J. Hoffman is Distinguished Research Professor of Computer Science at The George Washington University (GW) in Washington, D. C., and the author or editor of numerous articles and five books on computer security and privacy. His teaching innovations include multidisciplinary courses on electronic commerce and network security and the development of a portable educational network for teaching computer security. He also directs the Department of Homeland Security, Defense Department, and National Science Foundation computer security scholarship programs at GW; these programs have produced over thirty federal government experts in computer security, all of whom have a working knowledge of privacy as well. |
A Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Dr. Hoffman institutionalized the ACM Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in 1992, and has served on a number of Advisory Committees including those of the Center for Democracy and Technology, IBM, and the Federal Trade Commission.
Out of all this, he tries to strike appropriate balances between public and private benefit and between technological progress and civil liberties.
Dr. Hoffman received his B. S. in mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University and his M. S. and Ph. D. from Stanford University in computer science.
Assistant Director, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism
Adjunct Professor, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
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BIO: Keli Perrin graduated magna cum laude from Syracuse University College of Law in 2004. As a joint degree student she also earned a Masters in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. After law school she served for two years as law clerk to the Honorable David N. Hurd, United States District Judge for the Northern District of New York. She earned her undergraduate degree from SUNY Institute of Technology in Mechanical Engineering Technology. She is admitted to practice in New York State and the Northern District of New York. She also is a member of the New York Bar Association. Perrin and co-instructor, Maxwell Dean Mitchell Wallerstein, recently developed an interdisciplinary course, Homeland Security: Federal Policy and Implementation Challenges, which draws students pursuing degrees in international relations, public administration and law. She is a member of the New York State Emergency Manager's Association and has completed ICS-400 training. |
Professor/University Faculty Scholar
Department of Computer and Information Technology, Purdue University
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BIO:Dr. Rogers is the director of the Cyber Forensics Program in the Dept. of Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University. He is a Professor, University Faculty Scholar and research faculty member at the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). Dr. Rogers is the International Chair of the Law, Compliance and Investigation Domain of the Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) committee, Chair of the Ethics Committee for the Digital and Multimedia Sciences section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and Chair of the Certification and Test Committee – Digital Forensics Certification Board.
He is a former Police officer who worked in the area of fraud and computer crime investigations. Dr. Rogers is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Digital Forensic Practice and sits on the editorial board for several other professional journals. He is also a member of other various national and international committees focusing on digital forensic science and digital evidence. Dr. Rogers is the author of books, book chapters, and journal publications in the field of digital forensics and applied psychological analysis.
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His research interests include applied cyber forensics, psychological digital crime scene analysis, and cyber terrorism.Cybercrime Scene Analysis, and Cyber-terrorism. He has authored several book chapters, and articles in the area of computer forensics and forensic psychology. Dr. Rogers is the Editor-in Chief of the Journal of Digital forensic Practice and sits on the editorial board for several international journals. He is a frequent speaker at international and national information assurance and security conferences, and guest lectures at various universities throughout the world.
Associate Professor for Intellectual Property
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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BIO:Dr. Stefan Bechtold is an associate professor for intellectual property at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland. At the ETH, he is responsible professor for the university’s postgraduate intellectual property program (Master of Advanced Studies in Intellectual Property). From 2005 to 2008, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, Germany. Stefan Bechtold graduated from the University of Tübingen School of Law, Germany (First State Examination 1999, Ph.D. in law 2001, Second State Examination 2004), and from Stanford Law School (JSM 2002).
He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (1999, 2000) and the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Information Law (2005). Since 2002, he has been a Non-residential Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. His research interests include intellectual property, law and technology, telecommunications law, antitrust law, as well as law and economics. In his youth, Mr. Bechtold composed numerous orchestra and chamber music works which have been awarded several composition prizes and have been repeatedly performed and broadcast.
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Professor of Law
Wayne State University
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BIO:Before coming to Wayne State in 1988, Jon clerked for then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Justice Thurgood Marshall, studied Japanese communications law as a visiting (Fulbright) scholar at the University of Tokyo, and was an associate at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Shea & Gardner. Since coming to Wayne, he has spent a year in residence at the Federal Communications Commission's Office of Plans and Policy, a semester at Cardozo Law School's Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society, and a year on the civil appellate staff of the U.S. Justice Department. He chaired a working group created by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -- the international body seeking to order the domain name system and other aspects of Internet infrastructure) -- to develop recommendations on the creation of new Internet top level domains.
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Chair for Embedded Security, Professor, ECE Dept., Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany
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BIO: * 1991, M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Universität Siegen
* 1991-1994, Research Assistant, Institute for Experimental Mathematics, Universität Essen
* 1994, Ph.D. thesis about computer architectures for Galois field arithmetic
* 1995-2001 Faculty member in the ECE Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, USA
* 1997-2001, Head of the Cryptography and Information Security (CRIS) Labs
* 1999, Co-founder of the CHES Workshop (Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems)
* since 2001: Chair for Communications Security, ECE Department, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
* 2004-2007, Director of the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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Chief of Research, Markle Foundation
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BIO: Prior to his arrival Mr. Verhulst was the founder and director of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) at Oxford University, as well as senior research fellow at the Centre for Socio Legal Studies. In that capacity he was appointed the socio-legal research fellow at Wolfson College (Oxford). In addition, he was the Unesco Chairholder in Communications Law and Policy for the UK.
Before his move to Oxford in 1996, he had been a lecturer on communications law and policy issues in Belgium and founder and co-director of the International Media and info-comms Policy and Law studies (IMPS) at the School of Law, University of Glasgow. Mr. Verhulst has served as consultant to various international and national organizations including the Council of Europe, European Commission, Unesco, UNDP, USAID and DFID. Among his numerous publications include: In Search of the Self: Conceptual Approaches to Internet Self Regulation (Routledge, 2001), Convergence in European Communications Regulation (Blackstone, 1999), EC Media Law |
and Policy (AWL, 1998), Legal Responses to the Changing Media (OUP, 1998), and Broadcasting Reform in India (OUP, 1998). Mr. Verhulst is invited regularly to speak at industry and academic conferences globally. He is also the founder and editor of the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy and the Communications Law in Transition Newsletter. He is married and has one daughter and one son.
Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science, Yale University
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BIO:Joan Feigenbaum is the Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. She received a BA in Mathematics from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford. Between finishing her Ph.D. in 1986 and starting at Yale in 2000, she was with AT&T, where she participated very broadly in the company's Information-Sciences research agenda, e.g., by creating a research group in Algorithms and Distributed Data, of which she was the manager in 1998-99. Professor Feigenbaum's research interests include Internet algorithms, computational complexity, security and privacy, and digital copyright. While at Yale, she has been a principal in several high-profile activities, including the NSF-funded PORTIA Project and the ONR-funded SPYCE Project. She currently serves on the Scientific Council of the Web Sciences Research Institute, as an Executive-Committee Member-at-Large of the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computational Theory (Sigact), as Vice Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce (Sigecom), and as the Program Co-Chair of the 2008 Sigcomm Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation (NetEcon'08). Professor Feigenbaum is a Fellow of the ACM. |
Co-leader of the IBM Privacy Research Institute, IBM Watson Research Center
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BIO:John Karat is an internationally recognized researcher in the field of human-computer interaction. Over his career with IBM Development (1982-1987) and Research (1987-current) he has worked on the development of guidelines and principles for user interface design (including the chairing committees for the development of ANSI and ISO standards), researched and advised on design collaboration, researched and developed speech-based systems (including the design of IBM’s large vocabulary desktop speech recognition system), researched and designed electronic medical record systems for Kaiser Colorado Region and Barnes Hospital in St Louis), and information search and unstructured knowledge management, entertainment applications, personalization.
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John is currently involved in research on privacy and information system policy management. At IBM Research, he has been a researcher, project leader, and manager. John is currently co-leader of the IBM Privacy Research Institute, researcher on a project to enable end-to-end management of privacy policies in natural language, and project leader for an open collaborative research (IBM OCR) initiative in privacy and security policy management with Carnegie Mellon and Purdue Universities. He has been awarded several patents (addressing speech recognition interfaces, and general help systems) and received a number of internal IBM awards for invention achievement and other contributions. Recent publications have been in the areas of speech user interfaces (best paper award at the 1999 IFIP INTERACT conference), personalization (including an edited book “Designing Personalized User Experiences in eCommerce” published by Kluwer), and development of a policy management workbench for privacy (Best paper nominee at ACM SIGCHI 2006).
John has served ACM in a number of ways. He has been a member of the SIGCHI Extended Executive Committee since 1994, serving to expand its international base. From 1995 to 1998, he was a member of the Board of Directors for the ACM and IEEE/CS FOCUS organization (Federation on Computing in the United States) established to represent the US in the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). John was the US representative to the IFIP Technical Committee on Human-Computer Interaction (TC13 from 1991 to 1998), the ACM representative to this organization from 1998 through 2006, and Chair of TC13 from 2001 to 2004. In this period he helped organize the first international HCI conferences in China (2002), India (2004), and Brazil (2007). He contributed to the expansion of the HCI field to bring design into a more prominent role – organizing an early workshop on the topic, and editing a book (“Taking software design seriously” published by Academic Press in 1991. John helped establish the successful ACM conference Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) in 1995 and chaired the conference in 2000. In 2008, he was awarded the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Contribution Award.
As a leading researcher in HCI, John has published over 60 articles in professional and technical journals, delivered keynote addresses at international conferences (most recently Asia Pacific CHI in Beijing in 2002 and India International Conference on HCI in Bangalore in 2004), taught courses, edited a book on software design techniques, and has authored numerous chapters in recently published books. Throughout his career he has balanced contributions to his employers with contribution to the professional community. He served as chair of national (ANSI 200) and international user interface standards development committees (ISO TC 159), on the editorial board for 3 Journals (International Journal of Cognitive Ergonomics, Universal Access in the Information Society, and Interactions) and as editor of one (Behaviour and Information Technology), has held executive positions in several professional societies, and is currently co-editor-in-chief of the Springer book series in human-computer-interaction.
Dr. Joseph Turow
Robert Lewis Shayon Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies,
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
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BIO:Joseph Turow is Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication.
A 2005 New York Times Magazine article referred to Professor Turow as “probably the reigning academic expert on media fragmentation.” He has authored eight books, edited five books, and written more than 100 articles on mass media industries. A few of his titles are Niche Envy: Marketing Discrimination in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2006); Breaking Up America: Advertisers and the New Media World (University of Chicago Press, 1997; paperback, 1999; Chinese edition 2004), The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age (edited with Lokman Tsui, U of Michigan Press, forthcoming Summer 2008), and Playing Doctor: Television, Storytelling and Medical Power (Oxford, 1989). Professor Turow’s continuing national surveys of the American public on issues relating to marketing, new media, and society have received a great deal of attention in the popular press as well as in the research community.
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He has written about media and advertising for the popular press, including American Demographics magazine, The Washington Post, Boston Globe and The Los Angeles Times. His research has received financial support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Federal Communications Commission and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. The recipient of a number of conference paper and book awards, Professor Turow has lectured widely and been invited to give the Pockrass Distinguished lecture at Penn State University and to be a Chancellor's Distinguished Lecturer at LSU. He has served as the elected chair of the Mass Communication Division of the International Communication Association. Professor Turow currently serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Poetics, and New Media & Society. He also is on the advisory board of consumer Web Watch, a project of consumers union funded by the Pew Trusts and the Knight Foundation. |
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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BIO:Seth Schoen created the position of EFF Staff Technologist, helping other technologists understand the civil liberties implications of their work, EFF staff better understand the underlying technology related to EFF's legal work, and the public understand what the technology products they use really do. Schoen coms to EFF from Linuxcare, where he worked for two years as a senior consultant. While at Linuxcare, Schoen helped create the Linuxcare Bootable Business Card CD-ROM. Prior to Linuxcare, Schoen worked at AtreNet, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Toronto Dominion Bank. Schoen attended the University of California at Berkeley with a Chancellor's Scholarship. |
Emeritus Distinguished Engineer
Past President, IBM Academy of Technology
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BIO:Bill Tetzlaff is an Emeritus Distinguished Engineer from IBM, and the Past President of the IBM Academy of Technology. Bill retired from a full time role, to a part time Emeritus role at the end of June, 2008, after 42 years at IBM, as a researcher in systems topics, senior manager, and Executive Distinguished Engineer. Bill Tetzlaff started with IBM in a branch office and then moved to the Research Division where he has spent most of his career. He has worked in NY at the Watson Research Center on operating system projects both as a researcher and manager. He has also worked on storage systems both in New York and at the Almaden Research Lab. He has a 1998 PhD, in Computer Science from Polytechnic University. He just completed serving a two year elected term as President of the IBM Academy of Technology. He is now serving a two year term as Past President of the IBM Academy of Technology. |
Professor and Head of Human Centred Systems Group, University College London
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BIO:Prof. Angela Sasse got Read psychology in Germany and holds an M.Sc. in Occupational Psychology from Sheffield University, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham. Worked as a Human Factors Specialist for Philips Corporate Industrial Design in 1990. Started as Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at UCL in November 1990. She was the Past Chair of the British HCI Group (A Specialist Group of the British Computer Society) and Joint Technical Programme Chair of HCI'96. International Programme Committee Co-Chair of INTERACT'99 in Edinburgh. Papers Co-Chair (with Betsy Comstock) of CHI 2002 in Minneapolis. Co-Chair of Mentoring Program (with Michael Muller) for CHI 2003 in Ft. Lauderdale. |
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Yale University
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BIO:Charles Perrow (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1960) is a past Vice President of the Eastern Sociological Society; a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavorial Sciences (1981-2, 1999); Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science; Resident Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 1990-91; Fellow, Shelly Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, 1995-96; Visitor, Institute for Advanced Studies, 1995-96, Princeton University; former member of the Committee on Human Factors, National Academy of Sciences, of the Sociology Panel of the National Science Foundation, and of the editorial boards of several journals. An organizational theorist, he is the author of six books, including: The Radical Attack on Business (1972), Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View (1970), Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay (1972; 3rd ed., 1986), award winning Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies (1984; revised, 1999), award winning The AIDS Disaster: The Failure of Organizations in New York and the Nation (1990) with Mauro Guillen, award winning Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of American Capitalism (2002) and over 50 |
articles. His interests include the development of bureaucracy in the 19th Century; the radical movements of the 1960s; Marxian theories of industrialization and of contemporary crises; accidents in such high risk systems as nuclear plants, air transport, DNA research and chemical plants; protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure; the prospects for democratic work organizations; and the origins of U.S. capitalism.
Advanced Threat Researcher, Trend Micro
BIO: Computer security visionary and innovator. In my work, I try to balance theory and practice as best as possible, so while doing thorough paper research is vital to the success of a novel idea, it is rarely satisfying until the idea is implemented at least as a prototype. Only then do real-world weaknesses become apparent. So, my work has always crossed the theory/practice border. I am reasonably proficient in many computer languages but have also designed systems for malicious code analysis that required good knowledge of the theory of languages and graph theory. I design abstract security models, but also do penetrations testing. Morton Swimmer’s Specialties: static code analysis, digital immune systems, computer security, computer forensics, identity management, virtual universes, secondlife, social networking |
Senior Fellow, Information law Institute, NYU Law School
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BIO:Ira Rubinstein is a newly appointed Senior Fellow at the Information Law Institute. His research interests include Internet profiling, electronic surveillance law , online identity, Internet security and software liability. Rubinstein lectures and publishes widely on issues of privacy and security and has testified before Congress on these topics on numerous occasions. His most recent publication is "Data Mining and Internet Profiling: Emerging Regulatory and Technological Approaches," co-authored with Ron Lee and Paul Schwartz, 75 U. Chi. L. Rev. 261 (2008). Prior to joining the ILI, he spent 17 years in Microsoft's Legal and Corporate Affairs department, most recently as Associate General Counsel in charge of the Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy group. Before coming to Microsoft, he was in private practice in Seattle, specializing in immigration law. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1985. Rubinstein has served on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine. He is a board member of the Seattle Public Library Foundation and previously served on the Board of Governors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and as a Trustee of the American Immigration Lawyers Foundation.
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Partner of Trope And Schramm LLP
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BIO: Roland Trope is a partner in the New York offices of Trope and Schramm LLP.
He specializes in:
Commercial and corporate transactions (mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures), Regulatory compliance for cross-border investments and technology transfers (export controls, trade sanctions, personal data protection, anti-money laundering, Exon-Florio);
Development and protection of intellectual property portfolios, including licensing of technology; Corporate governance, particularly on compliance with requirements for data controls, record retention, information security and electronic discovery; E-commerce, web site development and other cyberspace law matters; and Procurements of computer-based systems, particularly of defense equipment by allied Ministries of Defense.
Roland Trope graduated from: Yale Law School, J.D., 1980; Oxford University, B.A., M.A., English Language and Literature, 1972, 1976 and University of Southern California, B.A., Political Science, 1969 |
Chief Information Security Officer, GE
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BIO: Grady Summers is the Chief Information Security Officer for General Electric, responsible for GE’s overall information security program. In this role, he directs GE’s Information Security Council, oversees development of company-wide policy and programs, and manages an operations group which provides security, identity management, and incident response services to the GE businesses. He also co-chairs GE's Information Governance Council.
Summers joined GE in 1997 and has held a variety of information technology positions in application development, infrastructure, and security including manager of GE’s intranet and internet web sites (InsideGE and GE.com), and application security leader. Immediately prior to his current role, he was CTO for GE’s headquarters unit, responsible for networking, client services, and information security. As CISO, Summers is known for embracing emerging technology and has pioneered the use of cloud storage and security as a service to decrease GE's information risk. Summers is a graduate of GE’s Experienced Information Management Program and the Information Management Leadership Program. He received bachelor’s degrees in computer systems and political science from Grove City College and holds an MBA from Columbia University in New York City. |
TRUST and ACCURATE Research Fellow, UC Berkeley Law and Technology Institute
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BIO: Aaron Burstein is the TRUST and ACCURATE Research Fellow at the Samuelson Law, Technology Public Policy Clinic and the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Burstein's resesarch interests include security, transparency, privacy, and intellectual property. With support from the NSF-funded TRUST (Team to Research Ubiquitous Secure Computing) and ACCURATE (A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections) centers, Burstein is studying these themes in the contexts of pervasive computing and electronic voting. He has also written about cybercrime and legal issues surrounding digital rights management systems.
Key in the ability to defend interconnected networks from vulnerabilities is research into improving defenses based on data about actual attacks. Burstein is examining ways to meet the urgent need of cyber-security researchers to study communications data and malicious software while respecting privacy, computer abuse, and intellectual property laws. Burstein's works in progress include a broad effort to examine the role that security plays in technology policy debates, beginning with the example of network competition policy. Another project involves close collaboration with computer scientists to establish a legal and policy framework for interacting with attackers on the Internet. |