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Issue No. 21 Spring 2003
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A
newsletter reporting the activities of the faculty, students
and graduates of the Department of Engineering and Public
Policy in the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon.
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MacArthur
Grant Supporting Security Studies
While
systems such as the U.S. mail, electric power, and computer
networks provide important civil services, their design
and operation also has important security implications.
To encourage engineers to systematically consider these
implications, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
has made a three-year grant of $1.1-million to Carnegie
Mellon’s Department of Engineering and Public Policy.
Research conducted
under this grant will address questions such as how best
to balance conflicting social objectives like preserving
privacy and public anonymity while performing surveillance
to prevent terrorist activities. It will also seek to
identify strategies to minimize the cost of security initiatives
by identifying dual-use applications which simultaneously
advance other important social objectives.
Several projects are
already underway. For example, Keith Florig (EPP) is conducting
research on how best to assure the safety of the U.S.
mail system. This work will include both a quantitative
risk assessment and studies of public perceptions and
preferences. Elizabeth Casman (EPP) is studying strategies
for early detection of bioattack which might also be used
to improve general public health screening.With colleagues
at Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute,
Benoît Morel (EPP) is assessing the adequacy and
completeness of current strategies to control cyber terrorism.
Other EPP faculty, including V.S. Arunachalam (EPP/MSE/
MacArthur
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Fischhoff
Named Howard Heinz Professor
Baruch
Fischhoff (SDS/EPP) has been named Howard Heinz Professor
in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Fischhoff, a member
of the National Academy’s Institute of Medicine (IOM)
and a Carnegie Mellon “University Professor,”
is world renowned for his work on risk perception and decision
making under uncertainty. In recent years, his research
has included work on methods for valuing environmental changes,
adolescent risk decisions, public perceptions of hazardous
technologies, reducing the risks of sexual assault, and
public response to terrorism.
A central theme in his
research is the public policy question of “how we might
strengthen our democracy by affording citizens more active,
effective roles in decisions affecting their governance
and welfare.”
At Carnegie Mellon,
Fischhoff’s teaching has included behavioral decision
making and project courses on topics such as trees in the
City of Pittsburgh, typing injuries, and green product labeling.
Fischhoff has received
various honors, including the American Psychological Association’s
(APA) Early Career Award for Contributions to Psychology
and for Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest.
He is a Fellow of APA and of the Society for Risk Analysis,
which awarded him its Distinguished Achievement Award.
Fischhoff received his
Ph.D. and M.A. in psychology from The Hebrew University
of Jerusalem and a B.Sc. in mathematics and psychology from
Wayne State University. For many years before joining Carnegie
Mellon, he was a principal in Decision Research in Eugene,
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Carnegie
Mellon’s Department of Engineering and Public Policy
added four new faculty in the Fall of 2002. At the level
of Full Professor, Maria Ilic has assumed a 50:50 joint
appointment between EPP and the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering. Prof. Ilic is one of the world’s
leading experts addressing technical and policy issues
in advanced electric power systems. She grew up in the
former Yugoslavia, completed a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering
at Washington University, and began her academic career
in a faculty appointment at Cornell. From there she
moved to the University of Illinois. In 1989, she left
her tenured position at Illinois to move to MIT where,
in the years that followed, she built a strong program
of research and education in advanced power systems.
Her arrival at Carnegie Mellon has greatly strengthened
the technical capabilities of the University’s
Sloan/EPRI Electricity Industry Center. Additional details
on Prof. Ilic can be found at http://www.ece.cmu.edu/%7Emilic/.
In addition to this
senior addition, the department has also added three
new faculty at the level of Assistant Professor. They
are H. Scott Matthews 50:50 with the Department of Civil
and Environmental Engineering; Adrian Perrig 50:50 with
the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineer-
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