 | Joan Feigenbaum |
Joan Feigenbaum, newly named as the Henry Ford II Professor of Computer Science, focuses her research on Internet algorithms, computational complexity, security and privacy, and digital copyright.
Her current or past courses at Yale include "Sensitive Information in a Wired World," "Economics and Computation," "E-Commerce: Doing Business on the Internet" and "The Internet: Co-Evolution of Technology and Society." She is the Yale principal investigator on a National Science Foundation-funded project called Privacy, Obligations and Rights in Technologies of Information Assessment, in which several of her colleagues in the computer science department are also active. The project aims to design and develop a next generation of computer technology for handling sensitive information, as well as to create a conceptual framework for policymaking and philosophical inquiry into the rights and responsibilities of data subjects, data owners and data users. She has also been engaged in the Office of Naval Research-funded Stanford-Penn-Yale-Cornell Experiment, a project focusing on the design of new software and mechanisms for diffuse computer systems.
Feigenbaum has a long-standing interest in fundamental problems in complexity theory that are motivated by cryptology, and she is a co-inventor of the security-research area of "trust management." More recently, she has worked on basic algorithms for massive data sets, particularly those generated in network operations and business-to-consumer e-commerce.
A graduate of Harvard University, Feigenbaum earned her Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University. Between finishing her Ph.D. in 1986 and joining the Yale faculty in 2000, she worked for AT&T, most recently in the Information Sciences Research Center at the AT&T Shannon Laboratory in New Jersey. There, she established a research group in the emerging area of algorithmics for massive data sets and served as manager of the group for two years.
The computer scientist has been an organizer and participant in the National Academy of Sciences' "Frontiers of Science" symposia, and she has organized and chaired symposia sessions on information security and on economic aspects of computation at the annual meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has served on numerous committees and panels exploring issues in her field, including the National Research Council's panel on Intellectual Property Protection in the Emerging Information Infrastructure. This year, she is general chair of the Association for Computing Machinery's Conference on Electronic Commerce.
From 1997 to 2002, Feigenbaum served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cryptology. She has been an editorial-board member for a number of professional journals and an invited lecturer at international conferences, symposia and professional meetings, including several that celebrate women in computing fields.
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