Below are the first 10 and last 10 pages of uncorrected machine-read text (when available) of this chapter, followed by the top 30 algorithmically extracted key phrases from the chapter as a whole.
Intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text on the opening pages of each chapter.
Because it is UNCORRECTED material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages.
Do not use for reproduction, copying, pasting, or reading; exclusively for search engines.
OCR for page 434
E
Biographies
E.1 COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Dick Thornburgh, chair, served as governor of Pennsylvania, attor-
ney general of the United States, and undersecretary-general of the United
Nations during a public career that spanned more than 25 years. He is
currently counsel to the national law firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP,
resident in its Washington, D.C., office. Elected governor of Pennsylvania
in 1978 and reelected in 1982, Thornburgh was the first Republican ever to
serve two successive terms in that office and was named by his fellow
governors as one of the nation's most effective big-state governors in a
1986 Newsweek poll. After his unanimous confirmation by the U.S. Senate,
Thornburgh served 3 years as attorney general of the United States (1988-
1991) under Presidents Reagan and Bush. Thornburgh took vigorous
action against racial, religious, and ethnic hate crimes, and his office
mounted a renewed effort to enforce the nation's antitrust and environ-
mental laws. During his tenure as attorney general, Thornburgh twice
personally argued and won cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. All
told, Thornburgh served in the Justice Department under five presidents,
beginning as a United States Attorney in Pittsburgh (1969-1975) and As-
sistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division (1975-1977),
emphasizing efforts against major drug traffickers, organized crime, and
corrupt public officials. Thornburgh was educated at Yale University,
where he obtained an engineering degree, and at the University of Pitts-
burgh School of Law, where he served as an editor of the Law Review.
434
OCR for page 435
APPENDIX E
435
Thornburgh served as director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard's
John F. Kennedy School of Government (1987-1988) and was a visiting
lecturer at the George Washington University Law School (1995~. Thorn-
burgh is a member of the board of directors of Elan Corporation, plc and
serves on the boards of the Urban Institute, the National Museum of
Industrial History, the DeWitt Wallace Fund for Colonial Williamsburg,
and the National Academy of Public Administration. He is chairman of
the State Science and Technology Institute and vice-chairman of the World
Committee on Disability. He also chairs the Legal Policy Advisory Board
of the Washington Legal Foundation. He is a member of the American
Bar Foundation, the American Judicature Society, and the Council on For-
eign Relations.
Nicholas l. Belkin is a professor at the Rutgers University School of
Library and Information Science. His research involves the development
of theory, design principles, and systems that will lead to effective and
humane information support for human problem management. Such a
program entails understanding people's problem situations, and how they
attempt to resolve them, in a variety of contexts; the nature and functions
of information support communication; and information representation,
retrieval, and presentation appropriate to such contexts. These factors
lead to specific research goals, which currently include characterization
and classification of human information-related problems; description
and an analysis of human-human information interaction and design of
human-computer information interaction; and classification of human
information-seeking strategies and interactions with texts.
The Reverend William l. Byron, Sit. teaches "Social Responsibilities
of Business" in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown Uni-
versity, where he holds an appointment as Distinguished Professor of the
Practice of Ethics and serves as rector of the Georgetown Jesuit commu-
nity. From 1982 to 1992, he was president of the Catholic University of
America. Prior assignments include service as president of the University
of Scranton (1975 to 1982), dean of arts and sciences at Loyola University
of New Orleans (1973 to 1975), and various teaching positions in his field
of economics and social ethics. Father Byron is the author of several
books, including Quadrangle Considerations (Loyola, 1989; winner of the
Catholic Press Association's 1990 Best Book Award in Education), and
Answersfrom Within: Spiritual Guidelinesfor Managing Setbacks in Work and
Life (Macmillan, 1998~; he also edited The Causes of World Hunger (Paulist,
1982) and Take Courage: Psalms of Support and Encouragement (Sheed &
Ward, 1995~. He is a trustee of CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield, Loyola
College in Maryland, and the University of San Francisco; he was a found-
OCR for page 436
436
YOUTH, PORNOGRAPHY, AND THE INTERNET
ing director and past chairman of Bread for the World, a public member
of the board of commissioners of the Joint Commission for the Accredita-
tion of Healthcare Organizations, and an original member of the board of
directors of the Federal Commission on National and Community Service
(now the Council of Independent Colleges' Academic Leadership Award).
Father Byron grew up in Philadelphia, where he attended St. Joseph's
Preparatory School. After service in the Army's 508th Parachute Infantry
Regiment in 1945 to 1946, he attended Saint Toseph's University in Phila-
delphia for 3 years before entering the Jesuit order in 1950. He was
ordained a priest in 1961.
Sandra L. Calvert is director of the Children and Media Project at
Georgetown University. She received her Ph.D. in developmental and
child psychology from the University of Kansas in 1982. Dr. Calvert is a
professor of psychology, an associate member of the linguistics depart-
ment, and a core member of the communication, culture, and technology
program at Georgetown University. Her research involves how informa-
tion technologies, such as television and computers, influence children's
attention, memory, and comprehension. She is particularly interested in
how the forms of media (i.e., features such as action, sound effects, and
language) interface with how children think (e.g., visually or verbally) at
different points in their development. Her recently published book,
Children's Journeys Through the Information Age (McGraw Hill, 1999), pro-
vides a critical synthesis of the research on children's social and cognitive
development in relation to information technologies.
David Forsyth is associate professor of computer science at the Uni-
versity of California, Berkeley. He is a renowned researcher in the area of
object recognition; several of his papers describe systems for identifying
humans and their activities in single images. He holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc.
in electrical engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, and a D.Phil. from Balliol College, Oxford. He has pub-
lished more than 60 papers in computer vision and computer graphics.
He is currently co-authoring Computer Vision A Modern Approach, a
graduate textbook in computer vision; some 20 chapters are currently
available on the Web. He has served as a referee for all the main profes-
sional journals in the area, and he is currently program co-chair for the
IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference and a member
of the program committee for the European Conference on Computer
Vision.
Daniel Geer is chief technologist officer for Stake Inc., a privately
held confidential e-commerce consulting firm. Dr. Geer previously served
OCR for page 437
APPENDIX E
437
as vice president and senior strategist for CertCo, as director of engineer-
ing at Open Market Inc., and as chief scientist, vice president of technol-
ogy, and managing director for OpenVision Technologies. He has served
as a technical director within Digital Equipment Corporation's research
division and was for a number of years the manager of systems develop-
ment for MIT's Project Athena, where he was the responsible manager for
all technical development, including the X Window System, Kerberos,
and others. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science
from MIT and a Sc.D. in biostatistics from Harvard University.
Linda Hodge of Colchester, Connecticut, is National PTA president-
elect, 2000-2003. Prior to becoming president-elect, Hodge was National
PTA Vice President for Programs, 1999-2001. She is a former National
PTA Region 7 director, which included representing the states of Alaska,
Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. She has
also chaired the National PTA Bylaws, Technology/Safety, and Mem-
bership Committees and is a former member of the Executive, Budget,
and Leadership Committees, and the IOD Cultural Arts Subcommittee.
Hodge is a past president of Hawaii State PTA. Hodge is a National PTA
honorary life member as well as an honorary life member of fourteen
state PTAs. Included among her awards are the California PTA Honorary
Service Award, the California PTA Continuing Service Award, and the
Vallejo School District Award Recognizing Outstanding Parent Volun-
teers. Outside of the PTA, Hodge serves on the board of directors of the
Flock Theatre, a regional theater group serving Connecticut, New York,
and Massachusetts. Her volunteer activities have included serving on the
boards of local Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Little League, and youth center
organizations. Hodge holds an A.S. degree in computer science and is
currently taking courses at Eastern Connecticut State University in busi-
ness administration.
Marilyn Gell Mason has more than 25 years of management experi-
ence with 20 years as a chief executive in complex and highly political
organizations. She has served as director of two major urban library
systems (Cleveland Public Library and Atlanta Public Library) and of the
1979 White House Conference on Library and Information Services. She
has a demonstrated track record of providing the leadership and manage-
ment expertise needed to bring about institutional innovation and change
in short periods of time. She serves on the board of trustees of the Council
on Library and Information Resources and the board of directors of Data
Research Associates Inc., and has served on numerous national and inter-
national advisory committees. She has also directed research and man-
agement consulting projects and has published widely, most recently in
OCR for page 438
438
YOUTH, PORNOGRAPHY, AND THE INTERNET
the areas of strategic management and the integration of print and elec-
tronic information. She received her M.P.A. from Harvard University's
Kennedy School of Government in 1978.
Milo Medin is senior vice president of engineering and chief technol-
ogy officer of Excite@Home. Mr. Medin oversees the development of
Excite@Home's high-speed backbone. Home's performance-engineered
scalable network removes Internet "traffic jams" and enables true end-to-
end management. In addition, the network employs replication and cach-
ing technologies that dramatically improve network efficiency. Prior to
joining Excite@Home, Medin served as project manager at NASA Ames
Research Center. During his tenure, he directed the NASA National Re-
search and Education Network project that, in combination with partners
at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, deployed a high-speed
national ATM infrastructure connecting major supercomputing and data
archiving centers. He also supervised the primary West Coast Internet
interconnect network. In addition, he pioneered the global NASA Science
Internet project, providing network infrastructure for science at more than
200 sites in 16 countries and 5 continents, including Antarctica, and ini-
tially helped establish the TCP/IP protocol as an industry standard. Be-
fore working at NASA, Medin held various positions at Science Applica-
tions Inc., programming supercomputers for defense program activities
at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos Na-
tional Laboratory, under contract to the Defense Nuclear Agency. Medin
has a B.S. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
lohn B. Rabun was a founder and has been the vice president and
chief operating officer of the National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children since April 1984. He administers the national clearinghouse, a
nonprofit organization in Alexandria, Virginia, with five branches
throughout the United States, a staff of 154, and an annual budget of $38.5
million, two-thirds of which comes from Congress via the Department of
Justice. Mr. Rabun received a B.A. from Mercer University in 1967, an
M.S.W. from the University of Louisville in 1971, and membership in the
Academy of Certified Social Workers in 1973. From 1973 to 1984, he was
a sworn juvenile officer, founded and managed the Louisville-Tefferson
Co. Kentucky Exploited and Missing Child Unit as the first police/social
work special investigations team on child sexual exploitation. Immedi-
ately before that, he was the executive director for the Kentucky affiliate
of the American Civil Liberties Union. Mr. Rabun has provided consulta-
tion and technical assistance as a member of the international Expert
Network on Self-Regulation of Internet Content for child protection for
the Bertelsmann Foundation, Gutersloh, Germany, and INCORE (Internet
OCR for page 439
APPENDIX E
439
Content Rating for Europe), Munich, Germany, over the last 2 years. Mr.
Rabun has authored numerous publications and frequently makes guest
appearances on national TV and radio specials and news programs.
Robin Raskin is a technology consultant with Ziff Davis Media spe-
cializing in consumer technologies. She is regarded as one of the leading
authorities on today's family and how they cope (or not) with technology.
The former editor in chief and founder of FamilyPC magazine, Raskin has
been writing, lecturing, and consulting in the consumer technology arena
for the past 20 years. Prior to launching FamilyPC, Raskin was the editor
of PC Magazine. Her work as a freelance writer appeared in such maga-
zines as PC World, PC Week, InfoWorld, Working Mother, Working Woman,
Child, and Newsday. Raskin has authored six books about parenting in the
digital age and is a frequent guest on many of the morning news shows.
Raskin writes a syndicated column for USAToday.com and for the
Gannett News Services, which appears in more than 150 newspapers
around the country. She is also the on-air host for a "connected family"
TV broadcast that is distributed nationally, reaching 4 million to 6 million
viewers monthly. Raskin resides in New York City and Hudson Valley
with her husband, three children, and a pile of ever-changing computer
equipment.
Robert l. Schloss is research senior software engineer at IBM's Tho-
mas T. Watson Research Center. He holds an A.B. from Yale University in
Mathematics and Computer Science. His work on digital endorsement,
annotation, and reputation data as strategies for on-the-fly information
quality assessment, on personalization strategies for Web content, and on
modular data interchange vocabularies began in the early l990s. Mr.
Schloss was a major contributor to the World Wide Web Consortium's
PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection) recommendation (now
implemented in major browsers, proxies, and Web servers), including the
ability to filter using metadata provided by third-party rating/labeling
agencies instead of, or in conjunction with, the metadata provided by the
content owner. (PICS was one technology considered by the courts in
ruling that the Communications Decency Act section of the telecommuni-
cations reform bill was unnecessary.) Mr. Schloss co-chaired the W3C's
follow-on effort on metadata interchange frameworks, the Resource De-
scription Framework Data Model and Syntax (RDF), which became a
recommendation in 1999. His work includes content sharing strategies
across broadband, Web, and wireless systems. His work (with others) on
XML Schema Language is a base for the Data Description Language
adopted for the MPEG-7 standard for description of multimedia content.
He has been on the program committee of the WWW conferences, teaches
OCR for page 440
440
YOUTH, PORNOGRAPHY, AND THE INTERNET
tutorials on metadata strategies at WebNet and XML conferences, and is
an IEEE senior member and a member of Computer Professionals for
Social Responsibility and ACM. Schloss resides in Westchester County,
New York, with his wife and teenage son.
lanes Ward Schofield is a professor of psychology and a senior scien-
tist at the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of
Pittsburgh. She is a social psychologist whose research during the last 25
years has explored the impact of social and technological change in edu-
cational settings. This work has led to the publication of over 50 papers
and three books, the most recent of which is Bringing the Internet to School:
Lessons from an Urban District (Iossey-Bass, New York, 2002~. Professor
Schofield received a B.A. from Harvard University, where she was elected
to Phi Beta Kappa, in 1968. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in
social psychology from Harvard University as well. She currently serves
as a member of the Board on International Comparative Studies in Edu-
cation of the National Research Council. She recently also served as a
member of the governing body of the American Psychological Associa-
tion, the Council of Representatives.
Geoffrey R. Stone is University of Chicago Provost and Harry Kalven,
Tr. Distinguished Service Professor of Law. Professor Stone received his
undergraduate degree in 1968 from the Wharton School of Finance and
Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania. He then attended the Uni-
versity of Chicago Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the
Law Review, was awarded his degree cum laude, and was elected to
membership in the Order of the Coif. Following graduation in 1971, Mr.
Stone served as law clerk to fudge T. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He spent the next year as
law clerk to Justice William T. Brennan, Tr. of the Supreme Court of the
United States. Mr. Stone was admitted to the New York Bar in 1972 and
has been a member of the faculty since 1973. From 1987 to 1993, Mr. Stone
served as dean of the Law School. Mr. Stone has served on the board
of governors of the Chicago Council of Lawyers, on the board of directors
of the American Civil Liberties Union, Illinois Division, as a fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an ax-officio member of the
American Law Institute, a member of the Executive Committee of the
Association of American Law Schools, a member of the Board of Advisers
of the National Association of Public Interest Law The Public Service
Challenge, a member of the Advisory Board of the Legal Aid Society, and
a member of the Advisory Board of the Chicago Volunteer Legal Services
Foundation. Mr. Stone has taught courses in constitutional law, civil
procedure, evidence, criminal procedure, contracts, and regulation of the
OCR for page 441
APPENDIX E
441
competitive process. Mr. Stone has written a casebook with Mr. Sunstein
in the area of constitutional law. He has also written numerous articles
concerning such matters as the freedom of speech and press, freedom of
religion, the constitutionality of police use of secret agents and infor-
mants, the privilege against self-incrimination, the Supreme Court, and
the FBI. Mr. Stone is the editor, with David Strauss and Dennis Hutch-
inson, of the Supreme Court Review.
Winifred B. Wechsler has been operating Internet businesses tar-
geted to children and families since 1995. Most recently, she was execu-
tive vice president and general manager of Internet and broadband ser-
vices for Lightspan Inc., an educational software and Internet services
company. Prior to that, she was with the Walt Disney Company for 14
years, where she held various management positions. In 1995, she was
one of the founders of Disney Online and was responsible for the launch
and growth of Disney.com, which is currently the most visited destina-
tion for children and families on the Web. She was also senior vice presi-
dent of Buena Vista Internet Group (now Walt Disney Internet Group),
where she set strategic direction, both internationally and domestically,
for all of Disney's Internet properties. Throughout, she has been con-
cerned with the ways that commercial enterprises can create responsible
methods for advertising and marketing to children on the Web. Prior to
working in the Internet industry, she was a senior executive with the
Disney Channel for 10 years. She holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Wellesley Col-
lege.
E.2 PROJECT STAFF
Herbert S. Lin is senior scientist and senior staff officer at the Com-
puter Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council
of the National Academies, where he has been the study director for
major projects on public policy and information technology. These stud-
ies include a 1996 study on national cryptography policy (Cryptography's
Role in Securing the Information Society), a 1991 study on the future of
computer science (Computing the Future), a 1999 study of Defense Depart-
ment systems for command, control, communications, computing, and
intelligence (Realizing the Potential of C4I: Fundamental Challenges), and a
2000 study on workforce issues in high-technology (Building a Workforce
for the Information Economy). Prior to his NRC service, he was a profes-
sional staff member and staff scientist for the House Armed Services Com-
mittee (1986 to 1990), where his portfolio included defense policy and
arms control issues. He also has significant expertise in math and science
OCR for page 442
442
YOUTH, PORNOGRAPHY, AND THE INTERNET
education. He received his Ph.D. in physics from MIT in 1979.
Avocationally, he is a long-time folk and swing dancer, and a poor magi-
cian. Apart from his CSTB work, a list of publications in cognitive sci-
ence, science education, biophysics, and arms control and defense policy
is available on request.
Gail Pritchard was a program officer at the Computer Science and
Telecommunications Board, where she contributed research and adminis-
trative skills to help produce such reports as Cryptography's Role in Secur-
ing the Information Society, Being Fluent with Information Technology, and
Building a Workforce for the Information Economy. Within the Center for
Education, Ms. Pritchard has contributed to the reports Developing a Digi-
tal National Library for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education and
Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, and Engi-
neering Education. She also served as study director of two committees
charged with reviewing drafts of the most recent K-12 mathematics and
technology standards, and is currently a program officer with the Com-
mittee on Undergraduate Science Education and the Committee on Sci-
ence Education K-12. Prior to joining the NRC, Ms. Pritchard was a
program specialist in the offices of the Secretary and the University and
Science Education Programs at the U.S. Department of Energy. Ms.
Pritchard received a B.A. in liberal arts from St. Tohn's College and an
M.Ed. from the University of Virginia.
loah G. Iannotta is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota
and a research assistant for the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of
the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council of the Na-
tional Academies. Since joining the board, Ms. Iannotta has been in-
volved in the development of a wide range of projects on topics including
adolescent risk and vulnerability, children's development and computer
technology, and the social and economic benefits and losses of family
leave. She edited a report entitled Nontechnical Strategies to Reduce
Children's Exposure to Inappropriate Material on the Internet and is a co-
editor of Adolescent Risk and Vulnerability: Approaches to Setting Priorities to
Reduce Their Burden, published by the National Academy Press. Prior to
her position on the board, Ms. Iannotta was a research fellow at the Uni-
versity of Minnesota's Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in
Sport. In addition to conducting analyses of the social and cultural impact
of sport on issues of equity, Ms. Iannotta coordinated the Tucker Center's
"Image Is Everything" program. This educational workshop introduced
high school female athletes to a critique of the media's often highly sexu-
alized portrayal of female athletes and encouraged them to develop their
own action plans for addressing issues of equity in sports within their
OCR for page 443
APPENDIX E
443
schools and communities. Ms. Iannotta is finishing her doctoral work at
the University of Minnesota in the Department of Kinesiology with a
concentration in sport sociology and a minor in feminist studies. Her
dissertation work uses qualitative research methodologies to uncover
strategies collegiate coaches use to address issues of equity (e.g., racism,
sexism, and homophobia) within women's athletics in order to create
tolerant and cohesive climates on their teams in which all athletes can
thrive and develop.
Janice M. Sabuda joined the Computer Science and Telecommunica-
tions Board in August 2001. Currently, she is focusing on two projects,
Privacy in the Information Age, and Tools and Strategies for Protecting
Kids from Pornography on the Internet and Their Applicability to Other
Inappropriate Content. She began her term with work on the Global
Networks and Local Values project (2001~. Prior to joining the National
Academies, Ms. Sabuda worked as a customer service representative at
eContributor.com, an online fundraising company, and as a product
trainer and research associate at a Fairfax, Virginia, prospect research
firm. She received her B.S. in business administration from the State
University of New York College at Fredonia.
OCR for page 444
Representative terms from entire chapter:
science education
