Dean’s Lecture Series
Previous Speakers

Ted Selker, CTO, Alphyco
Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Time: 12:30-1:45pm
Location: GOL-Auditorium
Speaker Bio
Dr. Ted Selker is CTO of Alphyco creating a community based considerate social media for advancing women. Dr. Selker is an entrepreneur inventor who also mentors innovation. Dr. Selker's academic positions at RIT and University of Maryland currently focus usable security and voting technology. He spent 5 years at at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley as director Research on Accessible voting, Considerate Systems research and in developing the campus’s research mission. Prior to that, Dr. Selker spent 10 years as an associate Professor at the MIT Media Laboratory where he created the Context Aware Computing group, co-directed the Caltech/MIT Voting T echnology Project, and directed the Industrial Design Intelligence future for product design project. Prior to that, his successes at targeted product creation and enhancement at IBM earned him the role of IBM Fellow.
Dr. Selker's work has birthed successful products ranging from notebook computers to operating systems. It has accumulated numerous awards, patents, and papers and has often been featured in the press. He was co-recipient of the Computer Science Policy Leader Award for Scientific American 50, the American Association for People with Disabilities Thomas Paine Award for his work on voting technology and the Telluride Tech fest award.
Abstract/Presentation info:
Voting and Usable Security
Opportunities for usable security improving the world are everywhere. Without being able to expose voters and their selections voting is an especially interesting application for security research. Historically, most votes are lost in registration, voting ballot design problems and polling place operations causing long lines, and possibly mail-in ballot fraud. This talk will describe voting process problems and describe technological solutions for voting improvement. Voting disenfranchisement is much higher for people with perceptual, physical and cognitive disabilities. More than 14% of registered voters are in danger of increased errors due to dyslexia. More than 6.5% of due to short term memory problems. We will describe and demonstrate technologies we are making that help disabled people and improve voting universally as well.
Past Speakers
2021 speakers
Susan Dumais, Technical Fellow, Microsoft presents "The Potential for Personalization in Search"
2018-2019 speakers
Brett Williams, Major General USAF (Retired) presents "Defending the Nation in Cyberspace"
Mike Regelski '89, '93, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Electrical Sector, EATON Corp. presents "Cybersecurity and Industrial Internet of Things"
Ruthe Farmer, Chief Evangelist at CSforALL.org presents "Championing Change: Creating Diversity in Tech at Scale"
Suzet M. McKinney, CEO/Executive Director of the Illinois Medical District presents “Old Problems, New Solutions: Can Technology Offer Solutions to Emergency Preparedness and Homeland Security Challenges?”
2017-2018 speakers
T.L. Taylor, Professor, Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology presents “Watch Me Play: Games, Live Streaming, and the Rise of Networked Broadcast
Mark Guzdial, Professor in the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology presents “Improving Computing Education with Learning Sciences: Predictions, Subgoals, and Parsons”
Sir Dermot Turing presents “Alan Turing – The Man Behind the Myth”
2016-2017 speakers
Dr. Jeremy Pickens, Chief Scientist, Catalyst Repository Systems presents “Challenges and Opportunities in eDiscovery and Information Governance: Not Everything is Big Data”
Vicki Hanson, ACM President and Distinguished Professor
2015-2016 speakers
Vint Cerf, Internet pioneer, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google presents “Digital Vellum: Preserving Digital Content for the Ages”
James D. Herbsleb, Professor, Institute for Software Research, Carnegie Mellon University
2014-2015 speakers
Kaitlin Thaney, Director, Mozilla Science Lab
John Resig '05, Creator of jQuery and Dean of Open Source, Khan Academy (2015 Golisano College Distinguished Alumnus)
Jennifer Lesser Henley, Director of Security Operations, Facebook
2013-2014 speakers
Alex “Sandy” Pentland, Director of MIT’s Human Dynamics Laboratory and the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program; co-leader of the World Economic Forum's Big Data and Personal Data Initiatives.
Linda Northrop, Director of the Research, Technology, and System Solutions Program, Software Engineering Institute Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Luis Von Ahn - CAPTCHA and Duolingo Creator; Professor, Carnegie Mellon University