Stuart Shapiro

I am a senior information security scientist at the MITRE Corporation in Bedford, MA, where I principally work on critical infrastructure protection and on privacy and anonymity. In addition to my participation in USACM, I'm on the board of directors of CPSR. I have been a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) (with one or two interruptions) for around 20 years.

Prior to joining MITRE I was director of privacy at CareInsite, an e-health company that was ultimately gobbled up by WebMD. Before that I was a gypsy scholar for a decade. In that capacity I spent time at Brunel University and the Open University in the UK, the University of British Columbia in Canada, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (my last academic port of call). While at RPI I taught every manner of (strictly speaking) non-technical computing course: history of IT, social and policy issues in IT, ethical issues in computing.

Most of my research and writing during my academic days was on the history and sociology of software "engineering" and of computing professionalization. Toward the end I started getting interested in privacy and security and that's been my focus ever since, although I'm planning on doing some more stuff with software engineering within a broader project on engineering epistemologies.

My main policy interests are privacy, civil liberties generally, and intellectual property (and how all three interact with one another).

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