Searching the Internet: Who's Watching?
November 2, 2005
The Neurosciences Institute
Panelists and Moderator Biographies |
• Lance Cottrell
President and Founder, Anonymizer, Inc
San Diego, California |
Lance Cottrell is one of the world’s foremost experts in the fields of cryptography, security, and online privacy issues and technologies. Founded in 1995, his company focuses on ensuring the privacy, anonymity, security, and safety of Internet users, organizations, and businesses. A national champion of privacy rights, Cottrell established the Kosovo Privacy Project in 1999, which enabled individuals to report on human rights violations and conditions within the war zone without fear of government retaliation. A noted speaker, he has gained wide media exposure on privacy and security issues and is regularly quoted by The Wall Street Journal and other national sources. Cottrell holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of California , Santa Cruz , and a Masters in Physics from the University of California , San Diego , thereafter taking a hiatus from the Ph.D. program to establish Anonymizer.
Pam Dixon founded the World Privacy Forum in November, 2003, a nonprofit organization that investigates and reports on privacy issues, particularly those intersecting with technology. An award-winning author, journalist, public speaker, and researcher, she was formerly a research fellow with the Privacy Foundation at Denver University 's Sturm School of Law. There, she researched and wrote about workplace and technology-related privacy issues in a series of ground-breaking reports. She was the principal investigator and author of the first sector-wide study of job applicant privacy. Other reports she has written document for the first time job applicant privacy issues on resume databases and on online job sites. She has written extensively about technology both as a book author and as a former New Media columnist for the San Diego Union Tribune. Ms. Dixon has written seven books, including two critically acclaimed books on job searching using the Internet. She wrote the first book to ever be published about the subject, a book for Random House/Times Books which went on to be a finalist for the Computer Press Awards. Her book on distance education is a classic and is used in college classrooms today. Dixon taught for five years and is the recipient of a Johns Hopkins University Fellowship for Outstanding Teaching.
• Lawrence M. Hinman, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy and
Director of The Values Institute
University of San Diego |
Lawrence M. Hinman is Director of the Values Institute and Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego , where he has been teaching since 1975, and he is co-founder with Dr. Kalichman of the Center for Ethics in Science and Technology. Hinman is the author of two widely-used texts in ethics, Ethics: A Pluralistic Approach to Moral Theory, 3rd ed. (Wadsworth , 2002) and Contemporary Moral Issues, 3rd ed. (Prentice-Hall, 2005). He has published numerous scholarly articles in ethics in journals such as Ethics, The Moralist, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, Criminal Justice Ethics, Computers and Society, Ethics and Information Technology, and Teaching Philosophy; he has also contributed to numerous anthologies in ethics. He also publishes op-ed pieces in newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune. Hinman is actively engaged in developing Ethics Across the Curriculum (EAC) programs at the University of San Diego and around the country. He has organized several major conferences in philosophy, including Kantian Ethics: Interpretations and Critiques (January 2003). Hinman is a member of the Board of the American Philosophical Association and also a member of the Executive Committee of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. He is a past member of the APA Committee on Computing and Philosophy and chairs the APA Committee on Teaching and Philosophy in 2003-05, and for several years has been on the Steering Committee for the Computing and Philosophy (CAP) Conference at Carnegie-Mellon.
Michael Kalichman is co-founder with Dr. Hinman of the Center for Ethics in Science and Technology. A member of the Division of Neuropathology in the Department of Pathology, Kalichman is Director of the UCSD Research Ethics Program. From 1986 through much of the 1990s, his research on the toxic effects of local anesthetics to peripheral nerves and on diabetic neuropathy was supported by grants principally from the NIH and the Department of Veterans Affairs. In 1988, Dr. Kalichman first taught a course in scientific methods and research ethics for biomedical research trainees in the UCSD School of Medicine. He currently offers seminars and courses to help UCSD Training Grant Program Directors comply with NIH requirements for training in the responsible conduct of research (RCR), and teaches multiple courses in research ethics for UCSD graduate students and postdocs. Dr. Kalichman has been an invited participant or speaker at many meetings and workshops throughout the nation. He is director of a Web-based project funded by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) and others to help institutions develop programs of instruction in the responsible conduct of research ( http://rcr.ucsd.edu). Dr. Kalichman currently leads an NIH-funded project to assess the effectiveness of teaching research ethics.
Specializing in Business Law and Commercial Litigation, Entertainment Law Practice, and Intellectual Property and Technology, a significant portion of Mr. Pink's practice is devoted to defending new and evolving technology, e-commerce, software, entertainment and automotive companies against claims of infringement based on copyright, trademark and unfair competition. He provides counsel to clients nationally on the worldwide exploitation and protection of their intellectual property rights.
Robertson relocated to San Diego 17 years ago to study at UCSD, supporting the slogan that San Diego is truly America 's Finest City . A highly successful entrepreneur, Robertson has founded a number of software companies, including Linspire, SIPphone, MP3.com, Media Minds, and MR Mac Software. Because of his innovative approach to the digital delivery, be it music, voice over the Internet, or software delivery, Robertson has been featured as a leader and an authority on digital distribution in various media outlets that include: ABC, CBS, NBC, Billboard, CNN, MTV, Wired, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, SonicNet, San Jose Mercury News, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Rolling Stone, New York Times, National Public Radio, Fortune, BusinessWeek, Linux Journal, Business 2.0, and more. Robertson received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Cognitive Science from the University of California , San Diego (UCSD) in 1990. He completed an undergraduate independent study with renowned Cognitive Scientist Donald Norman. He also interned at the San Diego Supercomputer Center . An active supporter of higher education, in Fall 2002 Robertson launched at UCSD the Robertson Educational Empowerment Foundation (REEF), a nonprofit organization promoting new and innovative programs of investment in education.
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