Browsing by Subject "Privacy Protection Study Commission"

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    Oral history interview with Lance Hoffman by Rebecca Slayton
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2014-07-01) Hoffman, Lance
    This interview with security pioneer Lance Hoffman discusses his entrance into the field of computer security and privacy—including earning a B.S. in math at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, interning at SDC, and earning a PhD at Stanford University—before turning to his research on computer security risk management at as a Professor at the University of California–Berkeley and George Washington University. He also discusses the relationship between his PhD research on access control models and the political climate of the late 1960s, and entrepreneurial activities ranging from the creation of a computerized dating service to the starting of a company based upon the development of a decision support tool, RiskCalc. Hoffman also discusses his work with the Association for Computing Machinery and IEEE Computer Society, including his role in helping to institutionalize the ACM Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy. The interview concludes with some reflections on the current state of the field of cybersecurity and the work of his graduate students. This interview is part of a project conducted by Rebecca Slayton and funded by an ACM History Committee fellowship on “Measuring Security: ACM and the History of Computer Security Metrics.”
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    Oral history interview with Willis Ware
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2003-08-11) Ware, Willis H.
    Distinguished computer scientist, longtime head of the Computer Science Department at the RAND Corporation, and pioneer and leader on issues of computer security and privacy discusses the history of Computer Science at RAND and other topics. This includes the transition of RAND to digital computing with the Johnniac project and RAND’s programming and software work. Dr. Ware also talks about his work and leadership in organizations such as ACM and AFIPS, as well as on the issues of computer security and privacy with the Ware Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Computer Security, HEW’s Advisory Committee on Automated Personal Data, and the Privacy Protection Study Commission. Finally, Dr. Ware outlines broad changes and developments within the RAND Corporation, particularly as they relate to research in computing and software at the organization.