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Subject: Special CRIME Meeting, Friday, 5 April @10am @ Verizon, Tigard Date: 20 Mar 2002 17:53:53 -0800 Folks, Eugene Spafford will be in town to talk to the CRIME group on Friday, April 5th, at 10AM at Verizon. http://crime.zotconsulting.com/meetings.php3. He will be discussing the art, science, and direction of information security. Block the time to be there. Spaf's bio is set forth below. It is a real honor to have him here to speak. Thanks to Tripwire for arranging it! Eugene H. Spafford is a professor of Computer Sciences at Purdue University, a professor of Philosophy, the university's Information Systems Security Officer, and is Director of the Center for Education Research Information Assurance and Security. CERIAS is a campus-wide multi-disciplinary Center, with a broadly-focused mission to explore issues related to protecting information and information resources. Spaf has written extensively about information security, software engineering, and professional ethics. He has published over 100 articles and reports on his research, has written or contributed to over a dozen books, and he serves on the editorial boards of most major infosec-related journals. Dr. Spafford is a Fellow of the ACM, Fellow of the AAAS, Fellow of the IEEE, and is a charter recipient of the Computer Society's Golden Core award. Among other activities, he is chair of the ACM's U.S. Public Policy Committee, a member of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association , and is a member of the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. He regularly serves as a consultant on information security and computer crime to law firms, major corporations, U.S. government agencies, and state and national law enforcement agencies around the world. He was the year 2000 recipient of the NIST/NCSC National Computer Systems Security Award, generally regarded as the field's most significant honor in information security research, and was named as one of the "Five Most Influential Leaders in Information Security" by the readers and editors of Information Security in 1999. More information may be found at <http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/homes/spaf>. In his spare time, Spaf wonders why he has no spare time. [-8 and to all a good night. -- -- Ben Barrett Software & Systems Engineer counterclaim Phone: 541.484.9235 Fax: 541.484.9193
