Ubiquitous Data Collection and Surveillance
Feb 05, 2019 12:00 PM
Dr. Seymour Goodman, Regents Prof, GA Tech
Ubiquitous Data Collection and Surveillance

Seymour E. Goodman is Regents’ Professor, Professor of International Affairs and Computing, and Adjunct Professor of History at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
His research interests include international technological development and related public policy issues; the study of the global diffusion of the Internet, the security of national and international infrastructures, and the impact of technologies on the conduct and outcomes of large-scale conflicts.

Over the last 50 years, more than 20 private and public sponsors have funded his work and programs. Prof. Goodman has served on many academic and government, advisory, study, and editorial committees, and has pursued his interests on all seven continents and about 100 countries. He is Co-Director of the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy, Director Emeritus of the Sam Nunn Security Program, and a lifetime National Affiliate of the National Research Council of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

Before coming to Georgia Tech he held various positions at the University of Virginia (applied mathematics, computer science, Soviet and East European studies), Princeton University (mathematics, public and international affairs), the University of Chicago (economics), the University of Arizona (MIS, Middle Eastern studies, Russian and Soviet studies), and Stanford University where he was director of the Consortium for Research in Information Security and Policy at the Center for International Security and Cooperation.

As an undergraduate at Columbia University, he studied civil engineering, mathematics, and city planning. He earned his PhD from the California Institute of Technology where he worked on problems of mathematical physics. 

 INTRODUCTION: Firooz Israel

INVOCATION: Brian Bollinger