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From: "Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>
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From: Catherine Copetas <copetas () cs cmu edu>
Date: Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 11:48 AM
Subject: Special Distinguished Lecture and Panel: JUDGE REGGIE B. JOHNSON /
Thurs 18 Jan / 4:30 pm / Rashid
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*Joint CyLab Security and Privacy Institute, Institute for Software
Research, Institute for Politics and Strategy Distinguished Lecture and
Panel *
<https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/thu-2018-01-18-1630/joint-cylab-security-and-privacy-institute-institute-software-research-institute-politics-and-strategy-distinguished-lecture-and-panel>
Thursday, 18 January 2018
4:10 - 4:30 pm - Refreshments
4:30 - 5:30 pm - Presentation and Panel Discussion
Rashid Auditorium - Gates Hillman 4401



* Judge Walton's lecture will be followed by a special panel discussion.
Questions from the audience are welcomed.*


* JUDGE REGGIE B. JOHNSON
<http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/content/senior-judge-reggie-b-walton>*
United States District Judge for the District of Columbia

*The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court: Myth Versus Reality*


<http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/content/senior-judge-reggie-b-walton>

Judge Reggie B. Walton
<http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/content/senior-judge-reggie-b-walton> was born
in Donora, Pennsylvania on February 8, 1949. He graduated from West
Virginia State University in 1971. While at West Virginia State, he was a
three-year letterman on the football team and played on the 1968 nationally
ranked conference championship team. He was also the Chief Justice of the
Student Court during his senior year at State. Judge Walton received his
Juris Doctor from the American University, Washington College of Law, in
1974.

Judge Walton assumed his current position as a U.S. District Judge for the
District of Columbia in 2001. Judge Walton has presided over notable
trials, including those of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby and of former Major
League Baseball player Roger Clemens. He was also appointed by President
George W. Bush in 2004 as the Chair of the National Prison Rape Elimination
Commission, a commission created by Congress to identify methods to curb
the incidents of prison rape. The U.S. Attorney General substantially
adopted the Commission’s recommendations for implementation in federal
prisons; other federal, state and local officials throughout the country
are considering adopting the recommendations. In 2007, Chief Justice John
Roberts appointed Judge Walton to a 7-year term as a Judge of the U.S.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and he was subsequently appointed
Presiding Judge in 2013. He completed his term on that court on May 18,
2014. In 2016, Judge Walton was also appointed to serve as a member of the
Defense Advisory Committee on Investigation, Prosecution and Defense of
Sexual Assaults in the Armed Forces.

Judge Walton previously served as an Associate Judge of the Superior Court
of the District of Columbia from 1981 to 1989 and 1991 to 2001. From 1989
to 1991, Judge Walton served as President George H. W. Bush’s Associate
Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy in the Executive
Office of the President, and also as the Senior White House Advisor for
Crime. Judge Walton served as the Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney in the
Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1980 to 1981,
and was an Assistant U.S. Attorney there from 1976 to 1980. From 1979 to
1980, Judge Walton was the Chief of the Office’s Career Criminal Unit. He
was a staff attorney in the Defender Association of Philadelphia from 1974
to 1976.

*Panelists*

   - *Lorrie Cranor <http://lorrie.cranor.org/>*, FORE Systems Professor of
   Computer Science and Engineering & Public Policy and Director, CyLab Usable
   Privacy and Security Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University
   - *Jay D. Aronson <http://www.history.cmu.edu/faculty/aronson.html>*,
   Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, and Director,
   Center for Human Rights Science, Carnegie Mellon University
   - *David J. Hickton <http://law.pitt.edu/people/david-j-hickton>*,
   Founding Director, Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security, and
   Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh


<http://lorrie.cranor.org/>

Lorrie Faith Cranor <http://lorrie.cranor.org/> is the FORE Systems
Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy at
Carnegie Mellon University where she is director of the CyLab Usable
Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS). She is associate department head of
the Engineering and Public Policy Department and co-director of the
MSIT-Privacy Engineering masters program. In 2016 she served as Chief
Technologist at the US Federal Trade Commission. Lorrie's research has
spanned a wide range of privacy, security, and usability issues. She is a
past chair of the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference and previously
served on the board of directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She
is a fellow of the ACM and IEEE and a member of the ACM CHI Academy.

Jay D. Aronson <http://www.history.cmu.edu/faculty/aronson.html>
iPreviously, Mr. Hickton was involved in a wide range of community
activities, and has long been an active supporter of and participant in
organizations which benefit children and the arts.s founder and director of
the Center for Human Rights Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is
also Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society in the History
Department. Jay’s research and teaching focus on the interactions of
science, technology, law, politics, and human rights in a variety of
contexts. His current work examines the use of video evidence in human
rights investigations and he recently completed a a long-term study of the
ethical, political, and social dimensions of post-conflict and
post-disaster identification of the missing and disappeared. For the past
several years, he has taught courses that address the technological, legal,
and ethical challenges of surveillance, drone warfare, and lethal
autonomous weapons systems.

David J. Hickton <http://law.pitt.edu/people/david-j-hickton>is the
founding director of the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law,
Policy, and Security <http://cyber.pitt.edu/>.  At Pitt, Mr. Hickton also
has secondary faculty appointments as professor in the the School of Law,
the School of Computing and Information, and the Graduate School of Public
and International Affairs. Prior to coming to Pitt, he served as United
States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He was nominated
by former President Barack Obama on May 20, 2010, and was confirmed by the
U.S. Senate on Aug. 5, 2010. He was sworn in as the District's 57th U.S.
Attorney on Aug.12, 2010.  Prior to becoming U.S. Attorney, Hickton engaged
in the private practice of law, specifically in the areas of
transportation, litigation, commercial and white-collar crime. He began his
legal career serving as a law clerk for the Honorable U. S. District Judge
Gustave Diamond from 1981 to 1983. For more than a decade, Hickton was an
adjunct professor at the Duquesne University School of Law, where he taught
antitrust.

A fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Academy of Trial
Lawyers of Allegheny County, Hickton has been admitted before numerous
courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court and the Pennsylvania Supreme
Court. At the request of President Bill Clinton, he previously served on
the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts for the John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts. Hickton has long been a staunch supporter
of many civic organizations, including those that benefit children and the
arts. He is a 1978 graduate of the Pennsylvania State University and a 1981
graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

*This event is sponsored by the following institutes at Carnegie Mellon
University: CyLab Security and Privacy Institute <https://cylab.cmu.edu/>,
Institute for Software Research <http://www.isri.cmu.edu/>, Institute for
Politics and Strategy <https://www.cmu.edu/ips/index.html>*

Additional Information:  lorrie () cs cmu edu



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