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2003 New Frontiers in Technology Conference

Conference Program
8:00am-9:00am Registration:
coffee, tea, and rolls
9:00am-9:45am Overview of Electronic Security
Victor Chang
VP and General Manager of RSA Security
9:45am-10:30am Data and Applications Security: Security for Wireless/Mobile Data Management
Dr. Bhavani Thurasingham
Director of Data and Applications Security, National Science Foundation (NSF)
10:30am-10:45am
Coffee Break
10:45am-11:30am Wireless Metro-Area Network Security
Devabhaktuni Srikrishna
CTO of FHP Wireless
11:30am-12:15pm A Survey of Vulnerabilities

Matt Bishop
U. C. Davis
12:15pm-1:15pm Lunch Break
1:15pm-2:00pm Storage Security
Art Edmunds
Senior Director of Data Networking Technologies, Hitachi Data Systems
2:00pm-2:45pm Web Service Security
Meichun Hsu, VP of Engineering for Commerce One.
and
Symon Chang, Tech Lead/Security Architect at Commerce One
2:45pm-3:30pm Privacy
Lee Tien
Electronic Frontier Foundation
3:30pm Program Closing

Speakers Bio

Victor Chang
VP and General Manager, Developer Solutions Division
RSA Security Inc.

http://www.rsasecurity.com/company/bios.html


Victor Chang has been with RSA Security since 1994 and has 20 years experience in high technology, including product development, strategic planning and general management. As vice president of RSA Security’s Developer Solutions Division, Victor is responsible for engineering, program management and product marketing for all of RSA’s developer security products, which are utilized by more than 1000 companies worldwide, and works to drive development and execution to deliver best-in-class developer security software.

Before becoming vice president of the Developer Solutions Division, Victor was vice president of engineering for RSA Security’s Pacific Rim development centers, responsible for RSA BSAFE encryption and RSA Keon Certificate Authority product lines. In this position, Victor also successfully integrated Xcert engineering and its certificate management technologies into RSA Security, and helped create RSA’s Brisbane development center, where he successfully launched RSA BSAFE security protocol product lines and embedded security offerings into global markets.

Before joining RSA Security, Victor held various senior management positions at Apple Computer, where he managed the development of Apple’s collaboration software technologies. Prior to Apple, Victor held a number of management and technical positions at Xerox, Intel, and Tsunami Technologies.

Victor holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University and a MS in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University.

 

Bhavani Thuraisingham
NSF Program Director, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems

National Science Foundation (NSF)

http://www.cise.nsf.gov/staff?name=bthurais

http://www.mitre.org/news/matters/06-00/mm_06-00_6.shtml


Bhavani Thuraisingham started her NSF program director position as an IPA on October 1, 2001. In addition to her responsibilities in Information and Data Management at NSF, she is also part of a team on setting directions for Bioinformatics and Geoinformatics. Her home institution is the MITRE Corporation, where she is chief scientist in data management in the Information Technology Directorate in Bedford Massachusetts. Since joining MITRE in January 1989, she has held various positions including lead and principal scientist and was also a department head in data and information management. She led MITRE's research program in data management as well as in evolvable interoperable information systems, has supported a number of sponsors at MITRE including the Air Force, Navy, Army, NSA, CIA and IRS, and has provided research directions in data management and information security to various government programs. She is the recipient of IEEE Computer Society's 1997 Technical Achievement Award for outstanding and innovative research contributions to secure data management.

Dr. Thuraisingham received her M.Sc. degree from the University of Bristol and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Wales both in the United Kingdom. Prior to joining MITRE she worked in the computer industry for over 5 years in Minneapolis first at Control Data Corporation and later at Honeywell Inc. She has also served as adjunct professor of computer science for over six years first at the University of Minnesota and later at Boston University. Dr. Thuraisingham is the recipient of the National 2001 Woman of Color Technology Research Leadership Award, and has received a number of corporate awards at MITRE, Honeywell and Control Data. She is a senior member of IEEE and is also a member of ACM, The British Computer Society, IFIP 11.3, OMG real-time SIG and AFCEA. She has served on the IEEE conferences and tutorials board, and currently serves on the advisory committee in data management for IASTED. She is a frequent keynote and featured speaker worldwide.

 

Devabhaktuni "Sri" Srikrishna
Chief Technical Officer, Founder
FHP Wireless

http://www.fhpwireless.com/company/management.shtml

Sri has led the development of technology for FHP Wireless since its inception. He specializes in high-performance routing and architecture for communication systems.

Prior to founding FHP Wireless, Sri led the development of the common network management software interface for Sycamore Networks' optical transport and switching products. He has co-authored research papers in parallel systems architecture, advanced compiler design, and quantum computing. He has taught courses in software engineering and mathematics and has received awards for his work in mathematics.

Sri holds a M.S. (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) from MIT and a B.S. (Mathematics) from the California Institute of Technology.

 

Matt Bishop
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of California, Davis

http://nob.cs.ucdavis.edu/~bishop/main.html


Matt Bishop serves on the executive committee of the National Colloquium for Information System Security Education and on the editorial board of the Journal of Computer Security. He has participated in professional conference organization and given tutorials on UNIX security and how to write secure programs at the recent SANS Workshop entitled Securing the Modern University: Mission Impossible. A computer security researcher, he is especially interested in vulnerabilities analysis, the design of secure systems and software, network security, formal models of access control, and user authentication. His research projects explore such topics as the detection and prevention of security flaws in computer systems, computer security research history, denial of service attacks in a networking environment, and interactive distance learning. Bishop commented on the state of education in computer security in his 1997 keynote address to the National Colloquium on Information Systems Security Education, and at UC Davis he currently chairs his department's Information Technology Committee. He is also the University's outreach liaison for the USENIX Association.

 

Arthur B. Edmonds, Jr.
Senior Director of Data Networking Technologies
HITACHI Data Systems

Arthur B. Edmonds, Jr. is Senior Director of Data Networking Technologies and member of the Technology Office of HITACHI Data Systems, led by Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Hubert Yoshida. Art has over 21 years experience in data processing, higher-speed networking, telecommunications, the Internet as well as distributed and client/server computing technologies. Previously, he served as Chief Technology Officer of a rate-based, eCommerce applications-serving dot-com, which he co-founded, and an I.T. infrastructure solutions provider.

He has served in senior positions in Sales, Marketing, Engineering and Engineering Management roles for such companies as Xerox Corporation, Wang Labs, GE Aerospace and Sun Microsystems.

Mr. Edmonds' current focus is investigating emerging technologies in the storage technology arena and extending data storage and acquisition over networks using Fibre Channel technology and the Internet. He is a founding member of the FastEthernet Alliance, former ATM Forum member and past voting member in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

In addition to his position as member of the Technology Office, Mr. Edmonds has published a number of white papers on client/server performance methods, networking, and reusable software modules. He has conducted numerous training sessions, briefings and keynote speeches on higher speed networking including members of the Office of Science & Technology at The White House.

Mr. Edmonds is a published author with the International Thomson Computer Press. His book, "ATM Network Planning and Implementation" (ISBN1-85032-894-3), is for network professionals and CIOs who demand details on the practical implementation and integration of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) technology in their enterprise networking environments. Mr. Edmonds holds a B.Sc., MA in Physics from the University of California at Davis. He also holds a Ph.D. (a.b.d.) in Theoretical Solid State Physics. He is also the recipient of the 1998 Piedmont, California Council Boy Scouts of America Silver Beaver, the highest award bestowed on volunteers for service at the Council level.

Meichun Hsu
Vice President, Engineering
Commerce One Inc.

http://www.commerceone.com/company/executive.html?exe=mhsu


Dr. Meichun Hsu is Vice President of Engineering at Commerce One Inc. and is responsible for Commerce One platform engineering and led the design and development efforts for the Commerce One 6.0 Platform. Dr. Hsu has nearly 20 years of experience in leading-edge technology research and product development

 

Prior to joining Commerce One in 2001, Hsu held positions with Hewlett-Packard Company, A.T. Kearney, EDS, and Digital Equipment Corporation. She has authored numerous publications about database systems, transaction processing, workflow, business process management systems, and data mining technologies, and, in September 2001, received the VLDB Ten-Year Paper Award in recognition for her work in Long-Running Transactions, published in 1991. Dr. Hsu was a member of Computer Science Faculty at Harvard University, where she received the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award in 1990. Dr. Hsu received a B.A. from National Taiwan University, an M.S. from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

Symon Chang
Tech Lead/Security Architect
Commerce One Inc.

http://home.earthlink.net/~symonchang/

 


Symon Chang is a Security Architect and a Technical Lead at Commerce One and is responsible for developing security solutions for Commerce One's Collaborative Web Services platform. He has over 20 years of high technology development and management experience.

Prior to joining Commerce One in 1999, Chang was the Chief Architect and a key member of the founding engineering team of Internet Image Inc. (acquired by Intraware), a leader in providing services to information technology professionals via the Internet. While at Internet Image, Chang successfully architect the system and led the engineering team in bringing the company’s first product to market. He also held positions with Bank of America, and taught at Golden Gate University and National University. Mr. Chang is a columnist for computer magazines in Taiwan. He has published several books, and hundreds of technical articles in Taiwan. Currently, Symon Chang is the Author for the Web Services Security Column on Infosec Magazine in Taiwan. Mr. Chang He received his MBA Degree from Golden Gate University, and M.S. Degree from San Jose State University.

Lee Tien

Electronic Frontier Foundation

tien@eff.org

Lee Tien is a Senior Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in free speech law, including intersections with intellectual property law and privacy law. Before joining EFF, Lee was a sole practitioner specializing in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation. Mr. Tien has published articles on children's sexuality and information technology, anonymity, surveillance, and the First Amendment status of publishing computer software. Lee received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Stanford University, where he was very active in journalism at the Stanford Daily. After working as a news reporter at the Tacoma News Tribune for a year, Lee went to law school at Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley. Lee also did graduate work in the Program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at UC-Berkeley.

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