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Nazli Choucri (PI)

has authored several books and over 120 articles in international relations. Her book, Cyber Politics in International Relations (MIT Press, forthcoming) directly relates to the proposed research. She is associate director of MIT’s Interdisciplinary Technology and Development Program (TDP), which is known for its wide reach in international collaborative research; she also directs the multilingual Global System for Sustainable Development (GSSD). In education, she has a long record of introducing new directions and courses in the MIT educational curriculum.

David Clark

was chief Protocol Architect of the Internet (1981 – 1989), a chairman of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies, and is currently do-director of the MIT Communications Futures Program.  His current research looks at re-definition of the architectural underpinnings of the Internet and the relation of technology and architecture to economic, societal and policy considerations.

Roger Hurwitz

is a Research Scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and a developer of systems for electronic publication, intelligent routing and wide area collaboration. His publications include Communication Flows, a study of media development in the US and Japan, co-authored with Ithiel de Sola Pool and Hiroshi Inose. In 1995, he organized the First International Workshop on Online Survey Methodology and Web Demographics.

Daniel Goldsmith

is a Research Associate at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research interests include system dynamics modeling, process improvement, risk management, and security studies. His research has been presented to corporate, government, and academic audiences. In addition to his research positions, he has worked at the United States Senate and at the Fremont Group, a private equity firm. Hel obtained a Masters of Business Administration from the Brandeis International Business School and B.A. from the University of Virginia.

Stuart Madnick

has been head of MIT's Information Technologies Group for more than twenty years and has been a key designer and developer in many information technology projects, including Lockheed's DIALOG information retrieval system. He has been the PI of the DARPA-funded research effort on Context Interchange. His over 250 published books, articles and reports includes the classic textbook Operating Systems and The Dynamics of Software Development.

John C. Mallery

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Silvio Micali

is a member of the National Academy of Science and has investigated for 30 years adversarial interactions of many players. He introduced fundamental notions to cryptography, such as zero-knowledge proofs, and co-authored fundamental results, such as secure multi-party computation.

Michael Siegel

is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is currently the Director of the Interdependence of Security and the Extended Enterprise (I-SEE) Special Interest Group at the MIT Center For Digital Business and Co-Director of the PROductivity from Information Technology (PROFIT) Project. Dr. Siegel's research interests include the use of information technology in financial risk management and global financial systems, applications of computation social science to analyzing state stability, eBusiness and financial services, global ebusiness opportunities, financial account aggregation, ROI analysis for online financial applications, heterogeneous database systems, managing data semantics, query optimization, intelligent database systems, and learning in database systems.

Patrick H. Winston

is Ford Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been with CSAIL and before that the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory since 1967. He joined the faculty in 1970, and he was the Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997.Professor Winston is particularly involved in the study of how vision, language, and motor faculties account for intelligence. He also works on applications of Artificial Intelligence that are enabled by learning, precedent-based reasoning, and common-sense problem solving.

Venkatesh Narayanamurti

is the John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Physics at Harvard University. He is also the Director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in 1965. He spent much of his scientific career at Bell Laboratories where he became Director of Solid State Electronics Research in 1981. From 1987-1992, he served as Vice President for Research at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Richard Clarke

is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, served the last three presidents as a senior White House Advisor. He has held the titles of Special Assistant to the President for Global Affairs; National Coordinator for Security and Counter-terrorism; and Special Advisor to the President for Cyber Security. Prior to the White House, Clarke served for 19 years in the Pentagon, the Intelligence Community, and State Department. During the Reagan administration, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence. He is the author of Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror.

Jack Goldsmith

is a leading internet regulation expert, co-author of Who Controls The Internet: Illusions of a Borderless World (2006), a member of the National Academies' ongoing project on Policy Consequences and Legal Ethical Implications of Offensive Information Warfare, and the author of many books and articles on international law and international relations. As Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel (2003-2004 he advised the President and Attorney General on legal issues concerning communications technologies, war, and international law.

Melissa Hathaway

former acting senior director for cyberspace at the National Security Council, is a senior advisor at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Hathaway worked on cyber security for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama until August 2009, when she left to establish Hathaway Global Strategies, LLC. She led President Obama's 60-Day Cyberspace Policy Review from February-May 2009.

Joseph Nye

is University Distinguished Service Professor and former dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He joined the Harvard Faculty in 1964, and taught one of the largest core curriculum courses in the college. In 2005, Foreign Policy listed him as one of the top ten scholars of international affairs. He has also been Deputy to the Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology and chaired the National Security Council Group on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, chairman of the National Intelligence Council, and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, where he also won the Distinguished Service Medal with an Oak Leaf Cluster. His recent books are Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (2004), an anthology, Power in the Global Information Age (2004), a textbook Understanding International Conflict (6th ed. 2006), and The Powers to Lead (2008).

Cindy Williams

is a Principal Research Scientist of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her work includes an examination of the processes by which the U.S. government plans for and allocates resources among the activities and programs related to national security and international affairs and an examination of the transition to all-volunteer forces in the militaries of European countries.

Jonathan Zittrain

Professor of Computer Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science, a co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and served as its first executive director from 1997-2000. Zittrain’s research includes digital property, privacy, and speech, and the role played by private “middlepeople” in Internet architecture. He has a strong interest in creative, useful, and unobtrusive ways to deploy technology in the classroom.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard University