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"The use of loaded words by politicians, lobbyists, and the media has contributed to pressure to censor (the Communication Decency Act - CDA), restrict access (filters), restrict privacy and encryption, reduce consumer rights under copyright and commercial law, and limit speech and entrepreneurial rights via trademark laws. I shall review how some of the proposed and new legislation and policies might impact our community.
"Many of us have knowledge and opinions about these issues, and I look forward to a lively interactive discussion.
ACM President Dr. Barbara Simons is a Fellow of the ACM and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She is also the founder and former chair of the ACM's U.S. Technology Policy Committee (USACM).
Simons earned her Ph.D. in computer science from U.C. Berkeley in 1981. Her dissertation solved a major open problem in scheduling theory. In 1980 she became a Research Staff Member at IBM's San Jose Research Center (now Almaden). In 1992 she joined IBM's Applications Development Technology Institute and subsequently served as Senior Technology Advisor for IBM Global Services. Her main areas of research are compiler optimization, algorithm analysis and design, and scheduling theory. Her work on clock synchronization won an IBM Research Division Award. She holds several patents and has authored or co-authored a book and numerous technical papers.
Simons is a winner of the 1998 EFF Pioneer Award. In 1995 c|net selected her as one of its 26 Internet "Visionaries"; in 1994 Open Computing named her as one of the top 100 women in computing; and in 1992 she was awarded the CPSR Norbert Wiener Award for Professional and Social Responsibility in Computing. Science Magazine featured her in a special edition on women in science in 1992. Simons is a member of the President's Export Council's Subcommittee on Encryption. She is also a member of the Information Technology Working Group of the President's Council on the Year 2000 Conversion. She has testified before both the U.S. and the California legislatures and at government sponsored hearings on cryptography, medical privacy, authentication for access to on-line records, and intellectual property on the Internet.
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