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Moderator: Lessons from Related Disciplines   Dr. Charles C. Palmer - Bio  Dr. Charles C. Palmer  Sr. Mgr, Security & Privacy  IBM Research  ccpalmer@us.ibm.com Web Sites www.research.ibm.com/people/c/cpalmer/ Biography Dr. Charles C. Palmer manages the Security, Privacy, and Cryptography department at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center. His teams work in the areas of Cryptography Research, Internet Security Technologies, Java Security, Secure Embedded Systems, Smart Cards, Secure Signed Documents, and the Global Security Analysis Lab—also known as the "ethical hackers"—which he co-founded in 1995. Palmer frequently speaks on the topics of computer and network security at conferences around the world. He was also an adjunct professor of computer science at Polytechnic University from 1993 to 1997. He holds five patents and has several publications from his work at IBM and Polytechnic University. Although his primary focus is now Security, Palmer remains active in the Genetic Algorithms community by participating in program committees for the various conferences since 1994. Most recently, he was a PC member for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2002. He has been a member of ACM since 1975. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, 1994, Dissertation title: "An Approach to a Problem in Network Design Using Genetic Algorithms." M.S. in Computer Science, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 1984, and B.S. in Computer Science, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 1978.