Activities

• Director, UMBC Center for Information Security and Assurance (CISA)
• Member, National Center for the study of Elections (NCSL), UMBC.
• Organizer, 2007 VoComp International Voting system Design Competition
• Faculty Advisor, UMBC Chess Club, and Director of the UMBC Chess Program
• Liason for students from National Defense University (NDU) studying information assurance at UMBC.
• Member, UMBC Phi Beta Kappa

Selected Memberships, Affiliations, and Appointments

• Editor, Cryptologia (1995-2000, 2006-present).
• Member, College Chess Committee, United States Chess Federation (USCF).
• Member, MIT Club of Washington
• Member, Association for Computer Machinery (ACM)
• Member, American Association of University Professors (AAUP)

• Joint Member, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), University of Maryland College Park (1989-1995)
• Organizer, 16th Maryland Theory Day
• Organizer, Cryptography Workshop (Feb 17, 1996, Philadelphia), 1996 ACM Computer Science Conference
• Member, Maryland Collaborative for Teacher Preparation (MCTP).
• Organizer, 2006 and 1996 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship
• Creator and organizer of the UMBC Master Preparation Chess Course (some videotapes are available from WWW Chess Superstore.com)

Special Notes for Spring 2008

• My research projects this semester deal with the end-to-end secure Punchscan voting system and reducing the trust base for voting systems with trusted platform modules. Some recent publications include:

  • Essex, Aleks, Richard Carback, Stefan Popoveniuc, Jeremy Clark, Alan T. Sherman, and David Chaum, ``Scantegrity: Independent End-to-end verfication for optical scan voting systems,'' submitted to special issue of Security and Privacy (October 2007).

  • Sherman, Alan T., Donald F. Norris, Andrew Sears, Aryya Gangopadhyay, Stephen H. Holden, George Karabatis, A. Gunes Koru, Chris M. Law, John Pinkston, and Dongsong Zhang, ``An examination of vote verification technologies: Findings and experiences from the Maryland Study,'' Proceedings of the USENIX/Accurate Electronic Voting Technology (EVT) Workshop (August 1, 2006). 15 pages. [html]

  • Sherman, Alan T., and David A. Mcgrew, ``Key establishment in large dynamic groups using one-way function trees,'' IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 29, no. 5 (May 2003), 444-458.

• I am teaching Section 0101 CMSC-444/644 Information Assurance, which meets Mon/Wed/Fri 10-10:50am in ITE 231

• I am teaching Section 0201 of CMSC-203 Discrete Math, which meets Mon/Wed/Fri 11-11:50am in ITE 231

• I am Director of the UMBC Center for Information Security and Assurance (CISA). Students interested in possible undergraduate and graduate DoD IASP scholarships to UMBC should monitor the CISA web site.

• Organizer, CSEE Research Review (May 2, 2008).

• This semester I sit on the following Departmental Committees: CSEE Colloquium, Tenure and Promotion, Graduate Admissions.

• Seven times since 1996, UMBC won (or tied for first at) the Pan-Am Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship, held December 27-30. I have been Faculty Advisor of the UMBC Chess Club since 1991. To apply for a chess scholarship to UMBC, simply submit an application for undergraduate studies to the Admissions Office and indicate your interest in chess in your essay.

• The next major chess tournaments at UMBC will be:
  UMBC Open--Alvin S. Mintzes Chess Tournament (always second weekend in March, including March 8-9, 2008)
  UMBC Chess Championship (always second weekend after Labor Day, inculding September 13-14, 2008)
  Maryland Scholastic Chess Spectacular (May 10, 2008)
  Anyone may play.