Tutorial Lecturers Biographies

Tutorial #6 - Security for Networked Computing
David Aucsmith, Security Architect and Manager of Cryptographic Technologies in the Internet & Communications Group at Intel Corp.
David Aucsmith is Security Architect and Manager of Cryptographic Technologies in the Internet & Communications Group at Intel Corporation. Mr. Aucsmith, in his current position at Intel Corporation, is responsible for the design and development of common security infrastructure in support of electronic commerce. The work is based on digital certificates and cryptographic modules and tokens.
Before joining Intel, Mr. Aucsmith was the Manager of Trusted Systems Development for Sequent Computer Systems. Before that, he was the Senior Development Engineer for Control Data Corporation, working on satellite communications security. As a member of the U.S. Navy, Mr. Aucsmith was involved with nuclear engineering and naval intelligence. He is still a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Naval Reserve.
Mr. Aucsmith holds a B.S. in Biochemistry from Emory University, a M.S. in Nuclear Physics from the Naval Post Graduate School, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently an adjunct professor at Portland State University.

Dr. Baiju Patel, Secure Communications Program in the Communication Architecture Labs, Intel Corporation
Dr. Baiju Patel, in his current position at Intel Corporation, is leading the Secure Communications Program in the Communication Architecture Labs at Intel. The objective of the program is to make secure communications a service that is available to all users and implementers. As part of the program, Dr. Patel is defining communications protocols, the workstation architecture for security, specification and implementation of the communications security policies and APIs required to facilitate secure communications.
Before joining Intel, Dr. Patel joined the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights as a research staff member. During his tenure, Dr. Patel focused on networking protocols and applications, developing architecture and protocols for remote LAN access (PPP), mobile computing, ATM switching, schedulers and adapters, Multimedia over LANs, video servers, and network design for distributed multimedia.
Dr. Patel holds a Ph.D in Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He obtained an MS degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. Patel received his BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at BITS in Pilani, India. He holds three patents on FDDI and ATM technologies.

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