Alan Theodore Sherman (born February 26, 1957) is a full professor of computer science at UMBC, 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

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Biography

Education

Sherman earned a

Bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ...

in Mathematics from Brown University in 1978, a

Master's Degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

in Electrical Engineering and

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includin ...

from MIT in 1981, and a Ph.D. degree in

from MIT in 1987. Professor 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 The Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship is the foremost intercollegiate team chess championship in the Americas. Hosted in part by the United States Chess Federation, the Pan-Am Intercollegiate is open to any team comprising four p ...

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, 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 Ronald Rivest, 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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sherman, Alan People from Cambridge, Massachusetts American computer scientists MIT School of Engineering alumni University of Maryland, Baltimore County faculty Election technology people People associated with computer security Living people 1957 births Brown University alumni