Panel Discussion on
Privacy vs. Pervasive Computing

Daniel Bailey, RSA Labs [Presentation]
Daniel Bailey is the RFID Solutions Architect at RSA Laboratories, the research division of RSA Security. Before joining RSA Security, Bailey was a product manager for wireless networks at NTRU in Burlington, MA, a provider of embedded security technology. At RSA Security, Bailey is working to spearhead RSA Security's efforts in developing RFID security technologies. He has extensive public speaking experience at both industry and academic conferences. In addition, Bailey has been a leader in standardization efforts including serving as chairman of the ZigBee Alliance security working group, contributing co-editor for security of IEEE 802.15.3, and author of portions of the IEEE 1363a and 802.15.4 standards. Further, he has published papers in both the academic and popular press on computer security and cryptography. Bailey holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Simson L. Garfinkel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology [Presentation]
Simson L. Garfinkel is a researcher in the field of computer security and award-winning commentator on information technology. Currently a doctorial candidate at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Garfinkel's research interests include computer security, the usability of secure systems, and information policy. He writes monthly columns Technology Review's Magazine and website and for CSO Magazine, for which he was awarded the 2004 Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for Best Regularly Featured Department or Column. Prior to joining CSAIL, Garfinkel founded Sandstorm Enterprises, a computer security firm that develops offensive information warfare tools used by businesses and governments to audit their systems. Garfinkel is the author or co-author of twelve books on computing, published by O'Reilly and Associates, MIT Press, Springer-Verlag, and IDG Books. He is perhaps best known for his book Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader called this book "A graphic and blistering indictment" of the techniques used by businesses to invade our privacy and our lives. Garfinkel holds three degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a masters of science degree from Columbia University.

Brian Levine, University of Massachusetts [Presentation]
Brian Levine joined the UMass Computer Science faculty in Fall 1999. He received his Master's and PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1996 and 1999, respectively. He received his B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the State University of New York at Albany in 1994. Dr. Levine has numerous publications in the areas of network privacy and security, group communication, and mobility. Before joining UMass, he had worked briefly at Sun Labs, Bell Labs, INRIA (RODEO group in Sophia-Antipolis), and Sprint Advanced Technology Labs.

Richard M. Smith, Privacy Foundation, ComputerBytesMan
Richard M. Smith has been described by The New York Times as "perhaps the nation's most vocal authority on data privacy." Smith has been in the computer business since the early 70s, and has been involved in microprocessors from day one. He began his career as a programmer, co-founded a software company, and became the head of the nonprofit Privacy Foundation, where he served until November, 2001. Since September 11, he has changed his focus from privacy to security. He is now focuses on technology related to security issues and he operates a web site that reports "computer bites man" stories, named ComputerBytesMan.com. He lives and works in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Unfortunately, Richard will no longer be able to participate.

Bhavani Thuraisingham, NSF, MITRE
Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham is the Program Director for Cyber Trust and Data and Applications Security at the National Science Foundation and has been on IPA to NSF from the MITRE Corporation since October 2001. She is part of a team at NSF setting directions for cyber security and data mining for counter-terrorism. She has been with MITRE since January 1989 where was the department head in Data and Information Management in the Information Technology Division and later chief scientist in data management in MITRE's Air Force Center. She has conducted research in secure databases for over eighteen years and is the recipient of IEEE Computer Society's 1997 Technical Achievement Award for and recently IEEE's 2003 Fellow Award for her work in database security. She is also a 2003 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Thuraisingham has published over 200 refereed conference papers and over 60 journal articles in secure data management and information technology. She serves (or has served) on editorial boards of journals including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ACM Transactions on Information and Systems Security, the Journal of Computer Security and Computer Standards and Interface Journal. She is the inventor of three patents for MITRE on Database Inference Control and has written 6 books on data management and data mining for technical managers and is currently writing a text book on database and application security based on her work the past eighteen years.

 

Moderator: Timothy W. Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County [Presentation]