This Tech Talk event has been cancelled. One of our intended guests's organization recently published an important letter on copyright infringement and peer-to-peer (P2P) file trading networks.

Guest Experts

Barbara Simons received her Ph.D. in 1981 in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1980 she joined the Research Division of IBM, and she is currently a member of the Application Development Technology Institute in the IBM Software Solutions Division. Her main areas of research are compiler optimization and scheduling. Her dissertation solved a major open problem in scheduling theory, and she has received an IBM Research Division Award for work on clock synchronization. She has authored or coauthored many papers and two books. She is a National Lecturer for the ACM.

Chris Jay Hoofnagle is legislative counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center, where he concentrates on governmental and commercial privacy issues. Chris' recent work has focused on public records and privacy, gender issues, workplace privacy, government and commercial profiling, privacy polling, the Attorney General's Guidelines, and the privacy implications of emerging technologies such as ENUM and Digital Rights Management.

Co-Hosts

Howard Strauss (above, left), Manager of Technology, Strategy, and Outreach at Princeton University, is Tech Talk's Technology Anchor.
Judith Boettcher is CREN's Executive Director.

Together, Judith and Howard will ask the really tough questions—and relay the questions you email to them at expert@cren.net.

Background & Resources

Do your know of useful online resources about student privacy issues which we should link to for this Tech Talk? Send your suggestions to event page producer Terry Calhoun at tcalhoun@scup.org.