On August 15, 2005, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a five-year, $800,000 grant for research on electronic voting systems in the U.S.
The research project, A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections, will be lead by Aviel Rubin, professor of Computer Science and Technical Director, Information Security Institute, Johns Hopkins University, who will coordinate the work of leading U.S. electronic voting and computer security experts that includes:
Dan Boneh, associate professor, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Drew Dean, SRI International Computer Science Laboratory, Menlo Park
David Dill, professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Douglas Jones, associate professor of Computer Science, University of Iowa
Peter Neumann, principal scientist, SRI International Computer Science Laboratory, Menlo Park
Dan Wallach, associate professor, systems group, Rice University Department of Computer Science
David Wagner, assistant professor, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley
"To build more trustworthy voting systems, Johns Hopkins University's Avi Rubin will lead 'A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections' (ACCURATE)," NSF stated in their announcement of the award. "A collaborative project involving six institutions, ACCURATE will investigate software architectures, tamper-resistant hardware, cryptographic protocols and verification systems as applied to electronic voting systems. Additionally, ACCURATE will examine system usability and how public policy, in combination with technology, can better safeguard voting nationwide. The center's research and findings will also apply to other systems where end-to-end security is paramount." (1)
(1) National Science Foundation: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=104352&org=NSF&from=news
University of Iowa Press Release http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/august/081605voting_grant.html
ACCURATE: http://accurate-voting.org/
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