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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Pages 175-180

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From page 175...
... He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the International Statistical Institute and an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association. His 1989 book, Survey Errors and Survey Costs, was named one of the 50 most influential books in survey research by the American Association of Public Opinion Research.
From page 176...
... Her work focuses on placing privacy-preserving data analysis on a mathematically rigorous foundation:  a cornerstone of this work is differential privacy, a strong privacy guarantee frequently permitting highly accurate data analysis.  She also does work in cryptography and distributed computing, including work on the first public-key cryptosystem for which breaking a random instance is as hard as solving the hardest instance of the underlying mathematical problem on combating e-mail spam by requiring a proof of computational effort (the technology that underlie hashcash and bitcoin)
From page 177...
... He previously served as chair of the Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University. His research interests focus on scalable information retrieval systems spanning search and retrieval and communications issues in multiple domains, systems that are deployed worldwide in commercial and governmental production environments.
From page 178...
... She is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, and she is a recipient of the Gertrude Cox Award from the Washington Statistical Society. She serves on the advisory boards of Statistics Canada, Statistics Sweden, the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S.
From page 179...
... He is also a research professor in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. Previously, he was on the faculty in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington.  His research interests are in the analysis of incomplete data, multiple imputation, Bayesian methods, design and analysis of sample surveys, combining information from multiple data sources, small-area estimation, confidentiality and disclosure limitation, longitudinal data analysis, and statistical methods for epidemiology.
From page 180...
... Marc Rotenberg is a president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, D.C., and teaches information privacy law and open government at Georgetown University Law Center.


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