About Invited Talks Speakers

Edward W. Felten is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He has published more than forty papers in the research literature, and has won awards for his research including a National Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. He received his B.S. (with honors) in Physics from the California Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington.

Susan Landau is Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories. She and Whitfield Diffie have written Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption. Landau is also primary author of the 1994 Association for Computing Machinery report Codes, Keys, and Conflicts: Issues in US Crypto Policy. Landau has done extensive work in symbolic computation and algebraic algorithms. Landau received her Ph.D. from MIT, her M.S. from Cornell, and her B.A. from Princeton.

Peter G. Neumann is a Principal Scientist in the Computer Science Lab at SRI International in Menlo Park. He has a Ph.D. from Harvard and a Dr. rerum naturarum from the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt. He has worked on system security, safety, reliability, and survivability. He is the author of Computer-Related Risks, the Moderator of Risks Forum (comp.risks), Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, and Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAS. He has made available both PostScript and HTML versions of his illustrative list of risks cases. His Web site (http://www.csl.sri.com/~neumann/) also contains pointers to Congressional testimonies and other background.

Richard M. Smith is the president and a founder of Phar Lap Software, Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., a developer of real-time operating systems and development tools for embedded PC systems. At Phar Lap, Richard works primarily in the area of embedded Web servers. Over the past couple of years, he has also developed an interest in Web security issues, particularily in the area of Web browsers and email. He has investigated such issues as how trojan horses can be automatically deliveried via email messages, electronic fingerprints in Microsoft Word documents, and privacy problems with Web sites. Many of the issues he has investigated have been covered in both the computer trade press and mainstream media such as the New York Times, Newsweek, and NPR.

Paul C. Van Oorschot is Vice President and Chief Scientist for Entrust Technologies. Over the past 15 years he has been involved in research, consulting, standardization, and product R&D in cryptography and information security, and in particular in the area of authentication, key management, and public key certificate systems. He has a Ph.D. in computer science, is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), and co-author of the Handbook of Applied Cryptography.

Marcus J. Ranum is CEO of Network Flight Recorder, Inc. (http://www.nfr.net/) He is the principal author of several major Internet firewall products, including the DEC SEAL, the TIS Gauntlet, and the TIS Internet Firewall Toolkit. He has been managing UNIX systems and security for over 13 years, including configuring and managing whitehouse.gov. He is a co-author of The Web Security Sourcebook.