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Interviews with Carolyn Meinel

• The Association for Computing Machinery http://cf.acm.org/crc_chris/cri/articleview-cri27-crc.cfm?art_id=53&CFID=11111111&CFTOKEN=2222222
• The Catman's Lair http://www.prydelands.com/catman/carol.htm
• PC Radio http://www.pc-radio.com/meinel.html
• Verbosity (version cached on Google) http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:qIC-6igAvc4J:verbosity.wiw.org/issue6/meinel.html+%22Carolyn+Meinel%22+interview&hl=en

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Examples of consulting contracts:

• Institute for Advanced Technology of the University of Texas at Austin (2004 – present)
• Process-based security distribution of Linux: Systems Advisory Group Enterprises, Inc. (1998 – present; patent pending in the names of Vincent Larsen and Meinel for an innovation under development by this company)
• Barrage long range guided artillery project: SAIC
• Off-line Intrusion Detection Program: a Lincoln Lab project for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
• Advanced composites for racing cars: VP Racing Fuels
• Consulting on many high technology ventures: Center for the New West
• Electromagnetic long-range artillery: SAIC
• Double Eagle particle beam lunar science probe study: SAIC
• DARPA Tactical Technology Office SETA on hypervelocity impact and Electromagnetic propulsion

Meinel has authored or co-authored technical books on computers, aerospace and other high technology topics, numerous research papers in refereed journals, and over 200 magazine articles. Sample publications:

Examples of technical presentations, books, refereed journal and magazine articles:

• Contributed an appendix on how to break into computers to the Encyclopedia of Hacking, by Prof. Bernadette Schell, et. al., (Greenwood, in press).
• "Cybercrime Treaty Could Chill Research," IEEE Security and Privacy, July/Aug. 2004, pp. 28-32.
• "Tough act to follow," March 5, 2004, http://www.sans.org/tough.php.
• Überhacker, now in 2nd ed. Details how to set up and run a laboratory in which one researches security problems; developed in part out of consulting work for Systems Advisory Group Enterprises, Inc. (Loompanics, 2003)
• It's 2AM: Do you know where your modems are?
• Are you giving away your databases?
• THE ABCs Of IDSs (INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEMS)
• How Computer criminals Defeat IDS
• How to Meet Your Future Most Valued Employee
• Contributed a chapter to The Hacking of America (Quorum Press, 2002)
• "Evolution of the Hacker Armies," Cyberadversary Workshop, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Aug. 13, 14, 2002.
• "Code Red for the Web," Scientific American, Oct. 2001. This article was reprinted in The Best American Science Writing 2002, Matt Ridley, ed. (Lipper Publications, 2002)
• "Why Are Computers Easy to Break Into – and What Is the Solution?," paper given at the Internal Audit & Financial Management Conference, February 19-21, 2002, Austin, Texas.
• "How Hackers Hide," also participated on a panel on how to secure web sites, WebSec 2002 Conference, Secure i-World Conference & Expo, Aug. 19-21, 2002, San Diego, California.
• The Happy Hacker: A Guide to Mostly Harmless Hacking, American Eagle, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, now in fourth edition with a Japanese edition.
• "How Hackers Evade Intrusion Detection Systems," paper given at Security.Net 2001, September 12-14, Toronto, Canada.
• Contributed sections to the Encyclopedia of Computers: Jenna Brinning, ed. (Moschovitis Group, 2000).
• "How Hackers Break in and How they Are Caught" Scientific American, October 1998.
• World Intermodal Freight Market, Forecast International, 1994
• World IVHS Market, Forecast International, 1994
• Emerging Technologies, Volumes 3 and 4, Forecast International, 1991
• C.P. Meinel, L.M. Gutheinz, A.J. Toepfer, R.Vandenberg, and R. Weitz, "Remote Resource Mapping of Solar System Bodies," Engineering, Construction and Operations in Space, Proceedings of the Space 90 Conference, ASCE, Johnson, S.W. and Wetzel, J.P., eds., April 22-26, 1990.
• Fair, H.D., Coose, P., Meinel, C.P. and Tidman, D.A. "Electromagnetic Earth-to-Space Launch," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, January 1989.
• "Military space launch today: a US perspective," Carolyn Meinel and Tom Blau, Military Technology, Volume XII, Issue 10, Oct 1988.
• Carolyn Meinel, et al, "Opportunities for Long-Range Hypervelocity Kinetic Kill," Proceedings of the October 22-25, 1985 Strategic Systems Symposium held at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, classified Secret.

CLEARANCES: Inactive Secret, Top Secret.

EDUCATION: M.S., Industrial Engineering, The University of Arizona, 1983. Research in the mathematics of computation (traveling salesman heuristics). This topic is directly relevant to cryptography. B.A., General Studies, The University of Arizona, 1981. Three part major: math, systems engineering and creative writing.

PROFESSIONAL: Meinel is a member of the Balloon Federation of America (in which she has served as a competition official, for example at the 2001 World Air Games in Spain), the National Association of Science Writers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is a co-founder and for several years the president of the L-5 Society, an organization now known as the National Space Society.

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