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WILLIS H. WARE
WILLIS H. WARE
Pages 305-310
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After completing his undergraduate and master's degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, respectively, and shortly after the United States entered World War II he took a job at Hazeltine Electronics. There, his work on classified military systems exposed him to new signals equipment at a time when, as he remarked, "the phrase ‘digital technology' was not yet in the lexicon." At war's end, his experience brought him to John von Neumann's newly established computer development program at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
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He found the cultural leap a challenge, but from there it was a small geographical leap to RAND's Santa Monica headquarters, where he spent the next 55 years. RAND's Johnniac was in development in 1952 when project leader Bill Gunning broke his leg in a skiing accident.
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Decades before data breaches, malware, and phishing began to make headlines, his 1973 paper "Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens"2 decreed, among other things, that there should be no secret data recordkeeping systems and that people should know what information about them is being recorded and have a way to correct it. He led several committees aimed at safeguarding computer user privacy rights, including the Privacy Protection Commission created by President Gerald Ford, which led to the federal Privacy Act of 1974.
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In a study of privacy in medical recordkeeping, he argued for the need to hold organizations accountable for the use of personal medical data, recommending critical legal and procedural changes to safeguard patients' privacy. In 1994 he was selected as a member of a National Research Council committee to examine national cryptographic policy; policies on data encryption had never before been examined in a cohesive way or by a nongovernmental group.
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He is survived by daughters Alison Ware and Deborah Pinson, son David, and two grandchildren.
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