Elections and Computers: A Match Made in ... Someplace?
Matt Bishop, Dept. of Computer Science, UC Davis

Sp 316, 1500-1550, October 12, 2006
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Abstract:
Electronic voting systems are becoming ubiquitous. Introduced originally to reduce problems of interpreting marked ballots, electronic voting systems have created new problems as well as solved old ones. This talk will discuss the role of electronic voting systems in elections, examine the problems and benefits of the systems, and discuss the nature and role of the Federal and state standards for these systems.

Bio:
Matt Bishop received his Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University, where he specialized in computer security, in 1984. He is on the faculty at the Department of Computer Science at the University of California at Davis. His main research area is the analysis of vulnerabilities in computer systems, and he also does research in data sanitization, property-based testing, deception as a defensive mechanism, intrusion detection and attack modeling, network security, electronic voting, and electronic recordation. He is active in information assurance education, and is a charter member of the Colloquium on Information Systems Security Education. His textbook, Computer Security: Art and Science, was published in December 2002 by Addison-Wesley-Longman. He teaches software engineering, machine architecture, operating systems, programming, and (of course) computer security.