The Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science is excited to announce its lineup for the 2024-2025 Bowers Distinguished Lecture Series. Join us as industry leaders and innovators share their insights and experiences, offering a glimpse into the future of tech.
2023-2024 Bowers Distinguished Lecture Series
Paul England
Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft
12/4/2024
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Bio: Paul England invented and/or advocated for many of the fundamental security features that are common in modern microprocessors. This includes secure and authenticated boot as well as secure enclave features, such as ARM TrustZone and Intel SGX. He is the co-inventor of the Trusted Computing Attestation and Sealed Storage features, which were first introduced in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) security coprocessor but are now available in many processors and security subsystems. He was one of the authors of the original TPM specification and led the team that wrote the TPM2 specification and reference implementation. His team is still guiding the evolution of the TPM. England was one of the lead architects for Microsoft’s Bitlocker drive encryption feature and has contributed to many of the more recent TPM-related features, including Virtual Smart Cards, Virtual Secure Mode, and Windows Hello. He is a co-inventor of the low-cost DICE/RIoT security technology that is becoming common in microcontrollers and lower cost microprocessors, and was one of the founder members of the Trusted Computing Group standards organization, and still serves on its technical committee. He has advised several governments on cyber-security issues, and led a team of researchers and engineers in Microsoft Research. In 2019, England was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his fundamental contributions to computer platform security.
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Julie Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
4/17/2025
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Bio: Julie E. Cohen is the Mark Claster Mamolen Professor of Law and Technology at the Georgetown University Law Center. She teaches and writes about surveillance, privacy and data protection, intellectual property, information platforms, and the ways that networked information and communication technologies are reshaping legal institutions. She is the author of Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2019); Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code and the Play of Everyday Practice (Yale University Press, 2012), which won the 2013 Association of Internet Researchers Book Award and was shortlisted for the Surveillance & Society Journal’s 2013 Book Prize; and numerous journal articles and book chapters.
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