Peter G. Neumann (Neumann@CSL.sri.com) has been a computer
professional since 1953, now in his 71st year.  He has doctorates from
Harvard and Darmstadt.  After 10 years at Bell Labs in Murray Hill,
New Jersey, in the 1960s, during which he was heavily involved in the
Multics development jointly with MIT and Honeywell, he has been in
SRI's Computer Science Lab since September 1971 -- where he is now
Chief Scientist (as a result of everyone moving up a level) and still
Senior Principal Scientist.  He is concerned with computer systems and
networks, trustworthiness/dependability, high assurance, security,
reliability, survivability, safety, and many risks-related issues such
as election-system integrity, cryptographic applications and policies,
health care, social implications, and human needs -- especially those
including privacy.  He has been PI of ongoing DARPA projects jointly
with the University of Cambridge (UK).  We are now in the fourteenth
year of research for DARPA (with additional British funding sources),,
including technology transfer of a hardware-software trustworthy
total-system co-design.  See the website at the University of
Cambridge for all of our published papers and released reports.
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/

PGN moderates the ACM Risks Forum (http://www.risks.org), has been
reponsible for more than 250 Inside Risks articles since 1990 in the
Communications of the ACM, and chaired the ACM Committee on Computers
and Public Policy for several decades.  He created ACM SIGSOFT's
Software Engineering Notes in 1976, was its editor for 19 years, and
still contributes the RISKS section.  He has participated in four
studies for the National Academies of Science: Multilevel Data
Management Security (1982), Computers at Risk (1991), Cryptography's
Role in Securing the Information Society (1996), and Improving
Cybersecurity for the 21st Century: Rationalizing the Agenda (2007).
His 1995 book, Computer-Related Risks, is still timely.  He is a
Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAS, and is also an SRI Fellow.  He
received the National Computer System Security Award in 2002, the ACM
SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award in 2005, and the Computing
Research Association Distinguished Service Award in 2013.  In 2012, he
was elected to the newly created National Cybersecurity Hall of Fame
as one of the first set of inductees.  He is a member of the
U.S. Government Accountability Office Executive Council on Information
Management and Technology.  He co-founded People For Internet
Responsibility (PFIR, http://www.PFIR.org).  He has taught courses at
Darmstadt, Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, and the University of Maryland.
See his website (http://www.csl.sri.com/neumann) for further
background and URLs for research papers, reports, testimonies, and
most of the Inside Risks series of CACM articles.  For example, he is
a co-author of the 2015 article, Keys Under Doormats: Mandating
Insecurity by Requiring Government Access to All Data and
Communications, and various recent papers for our ongoing DARPA
project.  [Updated 5 March 2024]