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Bob
Goodlatte was elected to serve as the Sixth District's Congressman
in November of 1992. The campaign was his first attempt at public office.
He was then re-elected to his third term by a wide margin.
He is a graduate of Washington and Lee University School of law, and his
undergraduate degree in Government was earned at Bates College in Lewiston,
Maine. Before being elected to Congress, Bob served as former Congressman
Caldwell Butler's District Office Manager, where he was responsible for
helping folks across the Sixth District. In 1979, he founded his own private
law practice in Roanoke. He is a former partner in the law firm of Bird,
Kinder and Huffman, working there from 1981 until taking office. Bob has
tackled many problems dealing with new technology including online gambling,
security and the integrity of intellectual property. As a member of the
Judiciary Subcommittee on intellectual Property and a strong advocate for
responsible use of the information superhighway, he continues to encourage
its development.
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Robert
"Tom" Marsh is
chairman of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection.
He is tasked with bringing together the combined forces of government and
the private sector to advise and assist the President by developing a strategy
for protecting and assuring the continued operation of this nation's critical
infrastructures. These critical infrastructures include telecommunications,
electrical power systems, gas systems, emergency services (medical, police,
fire and rescue) and continuity of government operations. Mr. Marsh has
an extensive background as an aerospace consultant. He serves as the chairman
of the board of CAE Electronics, Inc. and Comverse Government Systems Corp.
He is a director of Teknowledge Corp. and a trustee of the MITRE Corp.
He is also the director of the Air Force Aid Society. Mr. Marsh is a member
of the Board of Visitors of the Carnegie-Mellon Software Engineering Institute
and was chairman of the board of Visitors of the US Air Force Institute
of Technology. With his vast experience in both commercial industry and
the military, Mr. Marsh brings a unique understanding of both government
and industry needs in the area of critical infrastructure protection to
his position as Chairman of the Commission.
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Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe is
Vice President, Technology at IBM Corporation. He directs the Corporate
Technology Council, which is responsible for assessing IBM's major technological
strategies. He also oversees the IBM Academy of Technology. With these
responsibilities, he plays a lead role in the overall management of technology
throughout IBM. Dr. Jaffe was recently appointed a member of the Advisory
Committee to the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection,
which was established to examine both physical and electronic "cyber"
threats to key U.S. infrastructures. He has also joined the Senior Technical
Review Group of the National Security Agency, a study team which will provide
an independent perspective on the study of factors that will shape the
U.S. Cryptologic System. He is also on a National Academy of Sciences study
on Digitization and Communications Science for the Army Research Laboratory.
Dr. Jaffe is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM.
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Dr. Dorothy Denning is
Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, where she is studying
and teaching courses in information warfare and assurance, and encryption
technology and policy. She chaired the National Research Council Forum
on Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Networked Communities
and the first two International Cryptography Institutes, and was president
of the International Association for Cryptologic Research from 1983 to
1986. She has been chair of the Computer Science Department and is on the
Advisory Board of the Communication, Culture, and Technology program. Before
coming to Georgetown in 1991, she worked at Digital Equipment Corporation,
SRI International, and Purdue University. Denning has testified before
Congress on encryption policy and authored more than 90 publications. Her
most recent book, Internet Besieged, is a collecting of articles co-edited
with Peter Denning. She received the A.B. and A.M. degrees in mathematics
from the university of Michigan and the Ph.D. degree in computer science
from Purdue University.
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Dr. Eugene Spafford is
a professor of Computer Sciences at Purdue university. He is the founder
and director of the COAST Laboratory there --one of the world's foremost
dedicated academic centers of research and education in information security.
Spafford is a well-known lecturer and author, including serving as co-author
of the books Practical Unix and Internet Security and Web Security and
Commerce. He is on many editorial and advisory boards, including memberships
on the ACM's US Public Policy Committee, and serving as academic editor
for the journal "Computers Security. Professor Spafford is a senior
member of the IEEE and a Fellow of the ACM. In his spare time, he wonders
why he has no spare time.
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Dr. William Harris serves
as Commission on the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure
Protection. He joined the Commission in February 1997 and is an expert
in the field of transportation. During his service as Associate Director
for Texas Transportation Institute, he developed a major program in intelligent
transportation systems and long range view of transportation issues and
their relationship to education and research. Dr. Harris received his bachelor's
degree in chemical engineering and a master's degree in metallurgy from
Purdue in 1940 and a doctorate of science from MIT in 1948. During World
War II he was on active duty in the Bureau of Aeronautics,. US Navy Department
in charge of the aircraft armor program. After completing his doctorate,
he joined the staff of the naval Research Laboratory, where he pursued
studies of the relationship between metallurgical structure, composition,
and steel properties with emphasizes on ship failure mechanics. He served
the National Research Council as Director and later Chair of the National
Material Advisory Board, where he contributed to the commercial and military
utilization of high performance materials. During his many years with Battelle
Memorial Institute, he worked on pipe line issues, ship failures, the development
of research and development in third world countries, and the coordination
of national research planning.
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Mr. Kenneth Geide is the Deputy Chief
of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), and Chief
of the NIPC's Computer Investigations and Operations Section (CIOS). The
NIPC will fuse representatives from FBI, DOD, USSS, Energy, Transportation,
the Intelligence Community, and the private sector to facilitate information
sharing among agencies in collaboration with private industry. The NIPC
will provide the principle means of facilitating and coordinating the Federal
Government's response to an incident, mitigating attacks, investigating
threats and monitoring reconstitution efforts. The CIOS is responsible
for the program management of computer and information system intrusion
investigations, and for providing technical support to investigations involving
computer facilitated crimes. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Geide served
as the Chief of the Computer Investigations and Infrastructure Threat Assessment
Center (CITAC). Mr. Geide also initiated the FBI's Economic Counterintelligence
Program, and was instrumental in drafting and achieving the passage of
the Economic Espionage Act of 1996. This followed his assignment as Chief
of the FBI Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Training Unit, and
national manager for the Development of Espionage, Counterintelligence
and Counterterrorism Awareness (DECA) Program and Chief of the Economic
Counterintelligence Unit. A 26-year veteran of the FBI, Mr. Giede has served
in positions of increasing responsibility in FBI field offices throughout
the US. Mr. Geide received his Bachelor's Degree from the University of
San Francisco, a Master's Degree from NYU, and is currently completing
the degree requirements for a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science
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