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Appendix A: Biographies of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 337-347

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From page 337...
... He retired as vice chair and chief executive officer of Nortel on November 15, 2005. Before joining Nortel in 2004, Admiral Owens was chief executive officer and chair of Teledesic LLC and president, chief operating officer, and vice chair of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
From page 338...
... Earlier in his career, he commanded Submarine Squadron Four, the USS Sam Houston, and the USS City of Corpus Christi. Admiral Owens has written more than 50 articles on national security and wrote the book High Seas.
From page 339...
... Gerhard Casper is president emeritus of Stanford University and the Peter and Helen Bing Professor in Undergraduate Education at Stanford. He is also a professor of law, a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and a professor of political science (by courtesy)
From page 340...
... Casper serves as a member of the board of trustees of the Central European University in Budapest as well as a member of the board of trustees of the American Academy in Berlin. He is also a member other boards, including the Council of the American Law Institute and the Committee for Economic Development.
From page 341...
... He received the ACM SIGCOMM award and the IEEE award in international communications, as well as the IEEE Hamming Award for his work on the Internet. He is a consultant to a number of companies and has served on a number of technical advisory boards.
From page 342...
... A member of that department since 1961, he helped formulate the original undergraduate curriculum in computer science and led the development of the core subject on the engineering of computer systems. At the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory he designed one of the earliest widely used word-processing systems; he participated in the development of the Multics system, for which he designed the kernel thread package and with students and colleagues developed the security
From page 343...
... , his most recent projects have included design, architecture, and implementation for e-business systems; security for online financial transaction processing and distributed document-processing systems; custom firewalls based on open-source components; finding computer criminals; and penetration testing the network and physical security of deployed systems, enterprises, and collocation facilities.
From page 344...
... A top-level military manager and government leader, his flag positions included director of the Navy Long-Range Planning Group and executive secretary of the Advanced Technology Panel of the CNO Executive Board, director of naval intelligence, and director of the National Security Agency. In 1992, President Bush nominated him to
From page 345...
... He has conducted extensive operational intelligence tours overseas. Some of his key tours included duty as executive assistant to both the director of naval intelligence and the vice chief of naval operations; officer in charge of the Atlantic Fleet Ocean Surveillance Information Center; commanding officer of the Navy Operational Intelligence Center, and assistant chief of staff for intelligence, U.S.
From page 346...
... Lin, the study director, is chief scientist for the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, where he has been a study director for major projects on public policy and information technology. These studies include a 1996 study on national cryptography policy (Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information ­Society)
From page 347...
... Ted Schmitt was a consultant for the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council until 2008. He was involved in the CSTB projects on offensive information warfare, b ­ iometrics, and wireless technology.


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