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C: Biosketches of Workshop Speakers
Pages 60-66

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From page 60...
... Previous assignments in her career include serving as a science and technology advisor in the Army's Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans and at the Dismounted Battlespace Battle Lab at Fort Benning.
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From page 61...
... and later helped to create the National Information Assurance Partnership and was named its first technical director.  More recently he has been involved with software assurance issues, specifically working to evolve the NSA's software assurance paradigm to address today's evolving and complex IT environment. Mary Ann Davidson is the chief security officer at Oracle Corporation, responsible for security evaluations, assessments, and incident handling.
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From page 62...
... in computer science from the University of Texas, Austin, where he was also an Air Force ROTC distinguished graduate. Patrick Lardieri is manager of Distributed Processing Programs at the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratory in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
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From page 63...
... In 1993, he held visiting faculty positions at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in 1992, he held a visiting faculty position at the Osaka University Department of Computer Science in Osaka, Japan. His research focuses on development and management of large-scale systems, software, and processes.
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From page 64...
... Spector was vice president of IBM's worldwide services and software research, general manager of marketing and strategy for IBM's middleware business, and general manager of IBM's transaction software business.  Dr. Spector was also the founder and CEO of Transarc Corporation, a pioneer in distributed transaction processing and wide-area file systems and a tenured faculty member in the Carnegie Mellon University computer science department.  Dr.
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From page 65...
... , where he focused on the development and implementation of several capability maturity models. As senior scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, he is conducting research on software trends in the industry, such as process improvement, e-business, and outsourcing.
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