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Privacy Technology: History and Hope
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Biography
Dr. David Chaum is the founder and a member of the Board of Directors of DigiCash
Inc., a company that has pioneered electronic cash innovations.
He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science, with a minor in Business Administration,
from the University of California at Berkeley and taught at New York University
Graduate School of Business Administration and at the University of California.
He built up a cryptography research group at the Center for Mathematics and
Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam
and during this time also founded DigiCash. In 1993, he left CWI to become CEO
of DigiCash, which had doubled in size since its founding in 1990 with 12 employees.
In the area of cryptography, he has published over 45 original technical articles
(see list of articles),
received over 17 US patents, and founded the scientific organization,
the International Association for Cryptographic Research (IACR).
Concurrently he created and chaired the Smart Card 2000 conferences and several
European Union funded industry consortia, including CAFE,
which focused on electronic-wallets and the smart cards they hold.
Professional recognition includes invited articles featured in Scientific American
(August ’92) and Communications of the ACM (February ’81), EU Technology
Innovations Award ITEA 95, D.A.A.D. and
UC Regents Fellowships. He has appeared often in popular and trade media, and
is widely consulted on matters of cryptography, payments policy and overall
technology direction.
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