Alan Theodore Sherman (born February 26, 1957) is an American

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. He is a professor of computer science at

University of Maryland, Baltimore County The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is a Public university, public research university in Catonsville, Maryland named after Baltimore County, Maryland, Baltimore County. It had a fall 2022 enrollment of 13,991 students, 61 un ...

(UMBC), and director of the UMBC Center for Information Security and Assurance (CISA), and director of the UMBC Chess Program. Sherman is an editor for ''

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'', and is a member of

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and

Sigma Xi Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society () is an international non-profit honor society for scientists and engineers. Sigma Xi was founded at Cornell University by a faculty member and graduate students in 1886 and is one of the oldest ...

Education

After graduating as

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from Lafayette High School in 1974, Sherman earned a

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in mathematics from

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

in 1978, a

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in electrical engineering and

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from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

(MIT) in 1981, and a

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degree in

from MIT in 1987. Sherman's research interests include security of voting systems, cryptology, information assurance, and discrete algorithms.

Chess

Sherman has been the faculty advisor of the UMBC Chess Club since 1991, after playing in a student vs. faculty matc

He recruits chess players worldwide with academic scholarship

UMBC has been ranked among the best college teams, winning the Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship in 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2009, and 2012. In 1997 he received a Meritorious Service Award from the USCF for his contributions to college ches

Bibliography

Books

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Significant academic articles

* Fisher, K. and Carback, R. and Sherman, A.
Punchscan: Introduction and System Definition of a High-Integrity Election System
Proceedings of the IAVoSS Workshop On Trustworthy Elections (WOTE'06), Cambridge, UK, June 2006. *

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, Carback, R., Clark, J., Essex, A., Popoveniuc, S.,

Ronald Rivest Ronald Linn Rivest (; born May 6, 1947) is an American cryptographer and computer scientist whose work has spanned the fields of algorithms and combinatorics, cryptography, machine learning, and election integrity. He is an Institute Professo ...

, Ryan, P., Shen, E., and Sherman, A.
Scantegrity II: end-to-end verifiability for optical scan election systems using invisible ink confirmation codes
Proceedings of the conference on Electronic voting technology, p. 1-13, July 28–29, 2008, San Jose, CA. * Sherman, A. and McGrew, D.
Key Establishment in Large Dynamic Groups Using One-Way Function Trees
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.29 n.5, May, 2003. * Sherman, A., Kaliski, B. and

, Is the Data Encryption Standard a group? (Results of cycling experiments on DES), Journal of Cryptology, v.1, n.1, 1998. * Baldwin, R. and Sherman, A.
How we solved the $100,000 Decipher Puzzle (16 hours too late)
Cryptologia, XXIV:3, July, 1990.

External links

* ttp://www.csee.umbc.edu/~sherman/ Home page of Alan T. Sherman

References

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