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Board of Advisors

Dr. David Brin, Privacy Advocate and Bestselling Author

Chris Calvert, Manager, Security Intelligence IBM Global Services

Dr. Fengmin Gong, Chief Scientist McAfee Inc

Rob Hamadi, Director of Communications, British Publishers Association

Dr. David Martin, co-founder of Boston Software Forensics; Computer Science Professor, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Dr. Hermann Maurer, Dean, School of Computer Science, Graz University of Technology

Prof. John Soma, Executive Director, Privacy Foundation; Professor, University of Denver Law School

Dr. Eugene Spafford, Purdue University / Executive Director, Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security / Member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee

Dr. Mike Reiter, Carnegie Mellon University Professor of ECE and CS; Technical Director, CyLab

Dr. David Brin, Privacy Advocate and Bestselling Author

David Brin is a scientist, public speaker, and author. Several of his novels have been New York Times Bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula and other awards. His 1989 ecological thriller, Earth, foreshadowed global warming, cyberwarfare and near-future trends such as the World Wide Web. A 1998 movie, directed by Kevin Costner, was loosely based on The Postman. His fifteen novels have been translated into more than twenty languages.

Brin's 1998 non-fiction book -- The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? -- deals with a wide range of threats and opportunities facing our wired society during the information age. His chief argument, that openness is more effective than secrecy at fostering freedom, sparked controversy and garnered the prestigious Freedom of Speech Prize from the American Library Association.

David Brin's papers in scientific journals cover an eclectic range of topics from astronautics, astronomy, and optics to alternative dispute resolution and the role of neoteny in human evolution. His Ph.D in Space Physics from the University of California at San Diego followed a masters in optics and an undergraduate degree in astrophysics from Caltech. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the California Space Institute and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.


Chris Calvert, Manager, Security Intelligence IBM Global Services

Chris Calvert is the Manager of Security Intelligence for IBM's Managed Security Services delivery. Since joining IBM, Chris has worked in ethical hacking, forensic investigation, and security operations. Chris' current focus is on the application of intelligence and business intelligence disciplines to the field of Information Security. Chris has 16 years experience in Information Security, Information Warfare, Special Operations and National Intelligence. Chris served on active duty in Military Intelligence and Special Operations in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Since then Chris has supported the National Intelligence community and the Department of Defense in many different positions and agencies. Chris is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and an IBM Certified Professional IT Security Architect.


Rob Hamadi, Director of Communications, British Publishers Associatio

Author of "Identity Theft: What It Is, How to Prevent It, and What to Do If It Happens to You", Rob Hamadi was born in Jarrow, northeast England and studied engineering at Cambridge University. As Head of Communications at The Publishers Association he leads on high technology crime issues and liaison with law enforcement, and has worked on cases from the UK to the former Soviet Union. He is the founding chair of the Digital Content Forum's Cybercrime Industry Action Group, attends the Home Office/National High Technology Crime Unit Internet Crime Forum on behalf of the Internet Enforcement Group of the British Content Industries and is a member of the Rating and Filtering Sub-group of the Home Secretary's Taskforce on Child Protection on the Internet. In 2002 he led a fact-finding mission to the USA for the Department of Trade and Industry. As a result of the mission team's in-depth consultation with Federal Law Enforcement agencies a broad cross-section of the UK content industries began work on a new regime for policing copyright issues on the internet. From 1988 to 2002 he served as a London borough councillor.


Dr. Fengmin Gong, Chief Scientist McAfee Inc

Dr. Fengmin Gong is the chief scientist for McAfee IntruShield products. In his role with the company, Gong is responsible for leading the development of advanced intrusion detection and prevention algorithms and methods. Additionally, Gong focuses on the development of new signatures and profiles to counter emerging cyber threats. Prior to his role at McAfee, Gong was a founding-team member for and Director of Intrusion Detection Technologies at IntruVert Networks, which was acquired by Network Associates in 2003. Before joining IntruVert, Dr. Gong was director of advanced networking research at MCNC, a provider of sophisticated electronic and information technologies and services aimed at businesses and government departments. While at MCNC, he was involved in advanced security and networking projects for agencies such as DARPA, NSA, NSF, NLM, NIST, and NASA. During his time at MCNC, he was also Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. During a distinguished academic and publishing career, Dr. Gong has written and contributed to nearly 40 academic papers on network intrusion, anomaly detection, secure collaboration, multimedia content delivery, and network quality of service. His work has been presented at many industry events such as IEEE technical forums, as well as RSA, NETSEC, RAID, DISCEX, SIGGRAPH, and NOMS. Dr. Gong earned his M.S. in computer science from Washington University, St. Louis in 1988 and his D.Sc. in computer science in 1992. He is also a graduate of Xi'an Jiaotong University, China where he completed his B.S. in computer organization and architecture and M.S. in computer science.


Dr. David Martin, co-founder of Boston Software Forensics; Computer Science Professor, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

David Martin worked in the computing industry for several years on microcomputer applications before going to college in 1986. Studying mathematics and computer science at Iowa State, he later completed his Ph.D. with a thesis in network privacy at Boston University in 1998. Since then he has held computer science faculty positions at the University of Denver, Boston University, and currently, at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. His research focuses on the consumer end of network privacy and security. He has been particularly involved with the network anonymity community, having been a co-chairperson of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies workshop for two years. David is currently on leave of absence from his faculty appointment while concentrating on a startup business involving software forensics research and consulting, www.bsf-llc.com.


Dr. Hermann Maurer, Dean, School of Computer Science, Graz University of Technology

Study of Mathematics at the Universities of Vienna (Austria) and Calgary (Canada) starting in 1959. System Analyst with the Government of Sasketchewan (Canada) in 1963. Mathematician-programmer with IBM Research in Vienna 1964-1966. Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Vienna 1965.

Full Professor at the Graz University of Technology since 1978, October 2000 - September 2004 also Dean of Studies for Telematics. In addition, director of the Research Institute for Applied Information Processing of the Austrian Computer Society 1983-1998; chairman of Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported New Media since 1988, director of the Institute for Hypermedia Systems of JOANNEUM RESEARCH since 1990, director of the AWAC (Austrian Web Application Center) of the ARCS (Austrian Research Centers) 1997-2000, member of the board of OCG (Österreische Computergesellschaft) 1979-2003, co-founder and chairman of the board of the Hyperwave AG Munich 1997-2005, founder and scientific advisor of the KNOW Center (K+ Center), the first research center on Knowledge Management in Austria, since 2004/01/01 first Dean of the newly formed Faculty for Computer Science of Graz, University of Technology. Since 2006/1/1 vice-chairman of the board of the NewHyperG AG Graz.

Since 2002 'Campus Graz 02' Captain (University College of the Styrian Chamber of Commerce), honorary title 'Visiting Professor' at the Danube University (Krems, Austria), Central European Evaluation Board Member WGLN (Wallenberg Global Learning Network); External Advisory Panel Member at Kuching University (Malysia) as of December 15, 2002 and Visiting Researcher at Edith Cowan University (Perth, Australia) from February till April 2003.

He received a number of awards, among them the ADV Prize for Merits for Informationprocessing in Austria, the Honorary Doctorate of the Polytechnical University of St. Petersburg in 1992, the "Enter-Price" (a nice play of words with Enterprise) of the Styrian Chamber of Commerce in 1999, the Integrata-Prize (for Human Software) in 2000, the 'AACE Fellowship Award' of AACE (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education) in November 2003; became Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences in 1996 and a member of the Academia Europaea in February 2000. In January 2001 he was awarded the "Austrian Cross of Honours for Arts and Science Class I", in July 2001 the "Large Medal of Honour of the Province of Styria" and in May 2002 the Honorary Doctorate of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

Author of twenty books, more than 600 contributions in various publications, Editor-in-Chief of 'Journal of Universal Computer Science' and 'Journal of Network and Computer Applications'; member of the Editorial Board of the Journals 'Organizacija', 'Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia', 'International Journal of Learning and Change', 'International Journal of Telecommunications' and 'Journal on Educational Resources in Computing'; Chairperson of steering committees and Member of program committees of numerous international conferences; Founder of the Conference series of ED-MEDIA and WebNet/eLearn and of the conference I-KNOW; European Representative at ICCE till 2000.
Project manager of a number of multimillion-dollar undertakings including a patent for optical storage device, the development of a colour-graphic microcomputer (MUPID), an electronic teaching experiment COSTOC, multi-media projects such as "Images of Austria" (Expo'92 and Expo'93), various electronic publishing projects such as "PC Library", "Geothek", "J.UCS" and "Brockhaus Multimedial"; responsible for the development of the first second generation Web Based Information System Hyper-G, now Hyperwave and the eLearning Suite (eLS), a modern net based teaching platform, participation in a number of EU projects (e.g. LIBERATION, HYMN, EUROPE-MMM, HYPDOC, EONT and others) and MIRACLE. Successful supervision of more than 400 diploma theses, more than 30 doctorates and 20 second doctorates.


Prof. John T. Soma, Professor of Law, University of Denver, College of Law and Executive Director, Privacy Foundation

Professor Soma received a J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law, Urbana, Illinois and received his Masters in Economics from the University of Illinois School of Commerce, Urbana, Illinois in 1973. He completed his Ph.D. in Economics in 1975, also from the University of Illinois. From 1976 to 1979, Professor Soma was a Trial Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Washington, D.C., where he was primarily assigned to the Department of Justice trial team in the U.S. v. IBM litigation. His is a member of the Colorado, Illinois, and Washington District of Columbia Bars. In 1979, he joined the faculty at the University of Denver, College of Law where he has taught Computer Law, Antitrust, Corporations, and Copyright, Trademark and Trade Secrets. In addition to five books on computer law, Professor Soma has also authored over 40 law review articles in the computer law area.


Dr. Eugene Spafford, Purdue University / Executive Director, Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security / Member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee

Eugene H. Spafford is a professor of Computer Sciences at Purdue University and a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a professor of Philosophy (courtesy appointment), a professor of Communication (courtesy), and is Executive Director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security. CERIAS is a campus-wide multi-disciplinary Center, with a broadly-focused mission to explore issues related to protecting information and information resources. Spaf has written extensively about information security, cybercrime, software engineering, and professional ethics. He has published over 100 articles and reports on his research, has written or contributed to over a dozen books, and he serves on the editorial boards of most major infosec-related journals.

In his career to date, Professor Spafford and his students are credited with a number of security "firsts," including the first open security scanner, the first widely-available intrusion detection tool, the first integrity-based control tool, the first multistage firewall, the first formal bounds on intrusion detection, the first reference model of firewalls, and some of the first work in vulnerability classification databases. Much of the current security product industry can therefore be viewed as based, in part, on his past research. His current research is directed towards issues of public policy and information security, architecture and construction of highly-secure systems, and cyberforensic technologies.

Dr. Spafford is a Fellow of the ACM, Fellow of the AAAS, Fellow of the IEEE, and is a charter recipient of the Computer Society's Golden Core award. In 2000, he was named as a CISSP, honoris causa. He was the year 2000 recipient of the NIST/NCSC National Computer Systems Security Award, generally regarded as the field's most significant honor in information security research. In 2001, he was named as one of the recipients of the "Charles B. Murphy" awards and named as a Fellow of the Purdue Teaching Academy, and in 2003 was named to the "Book of Great Teachers" -- thus receiving all three of the University's highest awards for outstanding teaching. In 2001, he was elected to the ISSA Hall of Fame, and he was awarded the William Hugh Murray medal of the NCISSE for his contributions to research and education in infosec. He is a 2003 recipient of the Air Force medal for Meritorious Civilian Service. In 2004, Spaf was named as the recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's Taylor Booth medal, and of the ACM SIGCAS's "Making a Difference" award.

Among his many activities, Spaf is chair of the ACM's U.S. Public Policy Committee, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association, and is a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). He is a member of the FBI's Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory program, and of several corporate boards of advisors.

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In his spare time, Spaf wonders why he has no spare time.


Dr. Mike Reiter, Carnegie Mellon University Professor of ECE and CS; Technical Director, CyLab

Michael Reiter is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He received the B.Sc. degree in mathematical sciences from the University of North Carolina in 1989, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Cornell University in 1991 and 1993, respectively. He joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1993 and became a founding member of AT&T Labs – Research when NCR and Lucent Technologies (including Bell Labs) were split away from AT&T in 1996. He returned to Bell Labs in 1998 as Director of Secure Systems Research, and then joined Carnegie Mellon in 2001.

Dr. Reiter's research interests include all areas of computer and communications security and distributed computing. He regularly publishes and serves on conference organizing committees in these fields, and has served as program chair for the flagship computer security conferences of the IEEE, the ACM, and the Internet Society. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, on the editorial board of the International Journal of Information Security, and on the Board of Visitors for the Software Engineering Institute. He previously served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, and as Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy.