Ad Hoc Advisory Group
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The Ad Hoc Advisory (AHA) Group consists of people with significant experience in and knowledge of any or several of: open source, reliability, security, trust, voting technology, and elections practices. They provide experience, advice, and guidance on OSDV's technology strategy, development activities, and tech transfer plan.
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[edit] Terry Benzel
Terry is the Deputy Director of the Computer Networks Division of the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California and manages efforts in the DETER security testbed and Evaluation Methods for Internet Security Technology (EMIST) projects. She has over 20 years of experience in creating and managing technical innovation in systems and security and advices OSDV on technology transfer and testbed development.
[edit] Jon Callas
Jon is Chief Technology Officer for the PGP Corporationand is well known as an innovator in information and business security, including cryptography, operating system security, public key infrastructure, and intellectual property rights. He has been a key contributor for most of the history of the Pretty Good Privacy movement, as well as other development and standards activity in applied cryptography, security, and privacy. Having seen many ways in which technology-based attempts to create trust have and haven't worked, Jon advises OSDV on technology priorities concerning openness and trust.
[edit] Jeremy Epstein
Jeremy has over 20 years in information security experience, and has been an active participant in the electronic voting community for many years. Jeremy is Technical Advisor to VerifiedVoting.org, Senior Director of Product Security at Software AG, and Senior Security Consultant at Cyber Defense Agency LLC. He was appointed expert member of two Virginia state legislative committees on electronic voting, has been expert witness on electronic voting issues, and is a consultant to Kentucky Attorney General on voting issues. Jeremy advises OSDV on voting device product security, usage, and certification.
[edit] David Jefferson
David is computer scientist in LLNL's Center for Applied Scientific Computing, where he works on supercomputing applications. Before joining LLNL, he spent seven years in Silicon Valley at the DEC/Compaq Labs doing Internet-related work, including work in election security. David has served on a number of government panels at the state and federal levels, advising on election security issues, especially advising the Secretary of State on election technology issues, especially with regard to electronic and Internet voting. He advises OSDV on technology transfer and adoption issues for election systems.
[edit] Frank Hecker
Frank is a staff member with the Mozilla Foundation, and has also worked at Opsware, Collabnet, Netscape, and AOL. Frank's professional interests include the technical, business, and public policy aspects of open-source software, information systems security, and cryptography. Bringing his long experience in open-source projects and businesses, he advises OSDV on technology strategy issues at the intersections of architecture, specification, certification, licensing, and open-source business models.
[edit] Alec Yasinsac
Alec is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Florida State University and SAIT Labs. He led SAIT efforts in the Florida Thirteenth Congressional District Election Audit investigating voting device irregularities in 2006 elections. Alec leads SAIT efforts in Operation Bravo, which exists to help disenfranchised U.S. overseas civilian and military voters effectively exercise their right to vote. Alec advises OSDV of security and risk management in the design and use of voting devices.
