Susan Landau
Susan Landau (born June 3, 1954, New York City[1]) is an American mathematician and engineer, and Professor of Social Science and Policy Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.[2] She previously worked as a Senior Staff Privacy Analyst at Google.[3] She was a Guggenheim Fellow[4] and a Visiting Scholar at the Computer Science Department, Harvard University in 2012.[5]
In 2010–2011, she was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, where she investigated issues involving security of government systems, and their privacy and policy implications.[6]
From 1999 until 2010, she specialized in internet security at Sun Microsystems.[7]
In 1989, she introduced the first algorithm for deciding which nested radicals can be denested, which is known as Landau's algorithm.[8]
In 1972, her project on odd perfect numbers won a finalist position in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search.[9] Outside of her technical work, she is interested in the issues of women in science, maintaining the ResearcHers Email list, a "forum for women computer science researchers",[10] and an online bibliography of women's writing in computer science.[11] She was awarded the 2008 Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award for Social Impact.[12] In 2011 she was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[13]
Notes
- ↑ Contemporary authors: a bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television and other fields, Gale Research Co., 1998, p. 195.
- ↑ "Susan Landau – Worcester Polytechnic Institute". Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ↑ "Susan Landau Biography on PrivacyInk.org". Retrieved 2013-09-06.
- ↑ "List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2012". Retrieved 2013-09-06.
- ↑ Susan Landau at LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=65543255
- ↑ "Susan Landau – Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study – Harvard University". Harvard University. Retrieved 2011-01-09.
- ↑ "Susan Landau". Sun Microsystems. Retrieved 2008-09-14.
- ↑ S. Landau, "Simplification of Nested Radicals", SIAM Journal of Computation, volume 21 (1992), pages 85–110.
- ↑ "Susan Landau: Toward Perfect Internet Security". Scientific American. September 2, 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-14.
- ↑ "ResearcHers Email List". Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. 2006. Retrieved 2008-09-14.
- ↑ "The Book List: Computer Science Books by Women Computer Scientists". Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research. Retrieved 2008-09-14.
- ↑ "Women of Vision awards presented at Anita Borg Institute banquet". Diversity/Careers. Diversity/Careers. August–September 2008. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
- ↑ "ACM: Fellows Award / Susan Landau". Fellows.acm.org. Retrieved 2013-01-01.
References
- Susan Landau, "How to Tangle with a Nested Radical", Mathematical Intelligencer, volume 16, number 2 (Spring 1994), pages 49–55.
- Susan Landau, in "In Her Own Words: Six Mathematicians Comment on Their Lives and Careers" Notices of the American Mathematical Society 38:7:702–706 (Sept. 1991) full text at the Association for Women in Mathematics (written in 1988)
External links
- Susan Landau – Susan Landau's webpage, with pointers to most of her publications
- Internet Eavesdropping: A Brave New World of Wiretapping – Article by Landau