Lance J. Hoffman

Phone: 202 994-4955
E-mail: lanceh@gwu.edu
Campus Location(s): 304A Staughton Hall
Office Hours: by appointment

Lance J. Hoffman established the computer security program and led The George Washington University (GW) in Washington, D. C. to national recognition as a Center of Academic Excellence - Research in Information Assurance Education. Distinguished Research Professor of Computer Science there, he is the author or editor of numerous articles and five books on computer security and privacy; his teaching innovations include multidisciplinary courses on electronic commerce and network security and the development of a portable educational network for teaching computer security. He also directs the Department of Homeland Security, Defense Department, and National Science Foundation computer security scholarship programs and leads research efforts in capacity building and computer security curriculum development. A Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Dr. Hoffman founded what is now GW�s Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute and has served on a number of Advisory Committees including those of the Center for Democracy and Technology, IBM, the Federal Trade Commission, and the ACM Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy. He currently serves on the Department of Homeland Security Advisory Committee on Data Privacy and Integrity, and has testified before Congress on security and privacy-related issues. He recently started a new project, GLIMMER, that will provide an Internet-based decision support system for economic and other decisions related to solar power. The underlying computer program will be designed in such a way that various types of costs (political, technological, ecological, etc.) can be considered, in addition to economic costs. The system will present results in a meaningful way to the user. It will also provide interfaces for modules to be added by future users, including provisions for handling sensitive input and output data.

Interests

computer security and information assurance; privacy in computer systems; user-friendly Internet-based cost-benefit analysis for alternative energy systems, especially solar; electronic voting; risk analysis; certification and accreditation (C&A); Prof. Hoffman is also Principal Investigator for the grants under which full scholarships are given to some full-time GW students in computer security and information assurance (see www.seas.gwu.edu/cybercorps for details).

Education

Ph. D., 1970, Stanford University

M. S., 1967, Stanford University

B. S., 1964, Carnegie Mellon University

Selected Publications

1. Lance J. Hoffman, Making Every Vote Count: Security and Reliability of Computerized Vote-Counting Systems , (original Markle Foundation report), December 1987, http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~lanceh/making.pdf.
2. Lance J. Hoffman, Kim Lawson-Jenkins, and Jeremy Blum, Trust beyond security: an expanded trust model , Communications of the ACM, Vol. 49, No. 7, pp. 94-101, July 2006, http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1139922.1139924.
3. Timothy Rosenberg and Lance J. Hoffman , "Taking Networks on the Road: Portable Solutions for Security Educators" , IEEE Security & Privacy, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 57-60, January-February 2006, http://www.computer.org/portal/site/security/menuitem.6f7b2414551cb84651286b108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=security_level1_article&TheCat=1001&path=security/2006/v4n1&file=edu.xml&.