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Advisors
- Rebecca G. Bace, President,
Infidel Inc.
- Ted Briscoe, Ph.D., Reader
in Computational Linguistics, University of Cambridge
- Rajeev Motwani, Ph.D., CS
Professor, Stanford University
- Jerome S. Rubin, Chairman
and founder of E Ink Corporation, founder of LexisNexis
- Rohini K. Srihari, Ph.D.,
CEO Janya, Inc.
Rebecca G. Bace
President, Infidel Inc.
Becky Bace is an internationally recognized expert in network security
and intrusion detection. She has worked in security since the
1980s, leading the first major intrusion detection research program
at the National Security Agency, where she received the Distinguished
Leadership Award, serving as the Deputy Security Officer for
the Computing Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory,
and, since 1997, as a consultant. She is currently President
of Infidel, Inc., a security consulting firm, a venture partner
for Trident Capital, where she works with Trident's security-related
investment portfolio, and lead faculty member for the Institute
for Applied Network Security, where she leads the popular IDS
Forum. Ms. Bace has been a technical advisor to several successful
startups, including Security Focus, Tripwire, Arxan, Qualys,
SecureWorks @Stake, and Intruvert Networks. Her publication credits
include the books Intrusion Detection (Macmillan, 2000) and A
Guide to Forensic Testimony: The Art and Practice of Presenting
Testimony as An Expert Technical Witness, (Addison-Wesley, October,
2002)
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Ted Briscoe, Ph.D.
Reader in Computational Linguistics, University
of Cambridge
Dr. Ted Briscoe is Reader in Computational Linguistics in the Computer
Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK, where he has been a member
of staff since 1989. He has published around 50 research articles
and been principal investigator or coordinator of ten EU and UK
funded projects. He teaches an undergraduate course in Natural
Language Processing and co-directs the university's MPhil programme
in Computer Speech, Text and Internet Technology. Dr. Briscoe has
a bachelor's degree from the University of Lancaster and a MPhil
and doctorate from the University of Cambridge. From 1990 until
1996 he was an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow undertaking research
at Macquarie University in Sydney and University of Pennsylvania
in Philadelphia, as well as at the Computer Laboratory. He has
also worked for Xerox's European Research Centre in Grenoble, and
consulted for SRI, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, and Longman
Dictionaries.
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Rajeev Motwani, Ph.D.
CS Professor, Stanford University
Dr. Motwani is well known for his research in several areas of
computer science, including databases, data mining, web search,
information retrieval, robotics and theoretical computer science.
Dr. Motwani co-authored, Randomized Algorithms (Cambridge University
Press, '95) and Automata Theory (2nd ed., Addison-Wesley, '00)
-- widely regarded textbooks, used by universities all over the
world. Dr. Motwani also serves as the director of graduate studies
at Stanford University. He has received the Godel Prize, the
Arthur P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Young Investigator
Award from the National Science Foundation, the Bergmann Memorial
Award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation and an
IBM Faculty Award. Dr. Motwani is a Fellow of the Institute of
Combinatorics and currently serves on the editorial board of
SIAM Journal on Computing. In addition, Dr. Motwani has extensive
industry experience and serves on the boards or advisory boards
of companies such as Atesto, Centrata, Clickservices, Digimine,
Flarion, Google, and iScale.
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Jerome S. Rubin
Chairman and founder of E Ink Corporation,
founder of LexisNexis
Mr. Rubin is the Chairman of E Ink Corporation, a company that
expects its electronic paper to revolutionize publishing. He is
also a board member of several other corporations and charitable
foundations, and he was a founder and the Chairman of the M.I.T.
Media Lab's News in the Future consortium. Mr. Rubin created LexisNexis
and brought them to commercial success. He was the 1985 recipient
of the Information Industry Association's Hall of Fame award for
his pioneering achievements in electronic publishing. He has also
served as Chairman of the Professional Information and Publishing
Group of Times Mirror, Chairmain of the Association of American
Publishers, and a member of the Executive Committee of the International
Publishers Association. He is a graduate of Harvard College and
the Harvard Law School, has done graduate work in physics at Harvard,
and serves on a number of Harvard Board of Overseers Visiting Committees.
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Rohini K. Srihari, Ph.D.
CEO Janya, Inc.
Dr. Rohini Srihari is the CEO of Janya, Inc, a spin-off of Cymfony’s
Government Services Group. She founded Cymfony in 1996 and served as its
CEO until January 2001. From 2001 through 2005, Dr. Srihari performed
dual roles as Cymfony’s Chief Scientist and as a tenured Associate
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the State University
of New York at Buffalo. Rohini has served as Principal Investigator on
grants and contracts concerning multimedia information retrieval from
organizations such as NSF, CIA, DARPA, and Eastman Kodak Company. She
has written numerous papers and journal articles and delivered keynote
lectures on information extraction. She received a bachelor's degree in
Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and a Ph.D. in Computer
Science from the University at Buffalo. Rohini’s research is in
text mining, particularly advanced representations for information retrieval
(IR). She has also worked extensively on information extraction (IE) and
its applications, e.g., question-answering.
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