Lance J. Hoffman
Director of the Cyber Security and Policy Research Institute
The George Washington University
Lance J. Hoffman is Director of the Cyber Security and Policy Research Institute at The George Washington University (GW) in Washington, D. C. He is the author or editor of numerous articles and five books on computer security and privacy. His teaching innovations include multidisciplinary courses on electronic commerce and network security and the development of a portable educational network for teaching computer security. He also directs the Department of Homeland Security, Defense Department, and National Science Foundation computer security scholarship programs at GW; these programs have produced over forty federal government experts in computer security, all of whom have a working knowledge of privacy as well.
Professor Hoffman developed the first course on computer security in a United States University at Berkeley in 1970 after serving on the Advisory Committee to the California Assembly Committee on Statewide Information Policy. Almost forty years later, he is still advising government agencies, currently serving on the Department of Homeland Security Advisory Committee on Data Privacy and Integrity. A Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Dr. Hoffman institutionalized the ACM Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in 1992, and has served on a number of Advisory Committees including those of the Center for Democracy and Technology, IBM, and the Federal Trade Commission.
Dr. Hoffman received his B. S. in mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University and his M. S. and Ph. D. from Stanford University in computer science.
Appearances
- 2010 State of the Net Conference January 26, 2010
- Government Pattern Analysis: Securing Terrorists While Preserving Privacy? March 20, 2003
Biography last updated January 15, 2010