Golisano College and the Department of Computing Security present Dr. Ted Selker! He will speak on Voting and Usable Security. Dr. Ted Selker is an Adjunct Faculty at RIT. He built the Research on Accessible Voting group at Berkeley and CMU (https://researchinaccessiblevoting.bitbucket.io/). Professor Selker was a founding member of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project (www.vote.caltech.edu/) and spent 4 years as co-director of it as well. He helped organized several of the first national voting technology conferences in service of understanding the problems and alternatives available for voting and presented about it at venues ranging from the American Association for the Advancement of Science to local election official’s offices. He has participated in observing elections in hundreds of polling places and several election offices in several states. He creates and tests new security, usability, and access technologies for voting. His experiments on the 2006 Sarasota FL election for example were cited by the Government Accounting Offices decisions. He was part of the IEEE 1583 voting standards committee. He has also been responsible for certifying election equipment in North Carolina. Among other venues, he has testified at the House Science committee, at congressional subcommittees, at Election Assistance Commission hearings, at the National Academy of Sciences. He has been part of choosing voting equipment for China and evaluating Ireland’s equipment as well.
Dr. Selker is well known as a creator and tester of new scenarios for working with computing systems. He spent five years as a distinguished professor of practice at CMU directing the considerate systems group and creating a PhD program in EECS. He spent ten years as an Associate Professor at the MIT Media Laboratory where he created the Context Aware Computing group, co-directed the, and directed Industrial Design Intelligence. His work is noted for creating demonstrations of a world in which intentions are recognized and respected in complex domains, such as kitchens, cars, on phones and in email. Ted’s work takes the form of prototyping concept products supported by cognitive science research. His successes at targeted product creation and enhancement earned him the role of IBM Fellow. He has worked at many research labs including Xerox PARC and Atari Research Labs. Dr. Selker's innovation has been responsible for profitable and award winning products ranging from notebook computers to operating systems. For example, his design of the TrackPoint in-keyboard pointing device is used in many notebook computers. His visualizations have made impacts ranging from improving the performance of the PowerPC to usability OS/2 ThinkPad setup to Google maps. His adaptive help system has been the basis of products as well. Dr. Selker 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.
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