Douglas W. Jones | |
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| Born | Douglas Warren Jones |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | University professor, computer scientist |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | computer security,electronic voting |
| Awards | Phi Kappa Phi,Tau Beta Pi |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
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| Thesis | The Systematic Design of a Protection Mechanism to Support a High Level Language (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor | Thomas T. Chen[1] |
| Website | divms |
| Writing career | |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Years active | 2005–2013 (Science Fiction) |
| Notable works | 1632 series short stories |
Douglas W. Jones is an Americancomputer scientist at theUniversity of Iowa. His research focuses primarily oncomputer security, particularlyelectronic voting.
Jones received aB.S. inphysics fromCarnegie Mellon University in 1973, and aM.S. andPh.D. in computer science from theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976 and 1980 respectively.
Jones' involvement with electronic voting research began in 1994, when he was appointed to the Iowa Board of Examiners for Voting Machines and Electronic Voting Systems. He chaired the board from 1999 to 2003, and has testified before theUnited States Commission on Civil Rights,[2] theUnited States House Committee on Science[3] and theFederal Election Commission[4] on voting issues. In 2005 he participated as an election observer for the presidential election inKazakhstan. Jones was the technical advisor forHBO's documentary on electronic voting machine issues,"Hacking Democracy", that was released in 2006.[5] He was a member of theACCURATE electronic voting project from 2005 to 2011. On December 11, 2009, theElection Assistance Commission appointed Douglas Jones to theTechnical Guidelines Development Committee.[6]
Together withBarbara Simons, Jones has published a book on electronic voting entitledBroken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count?[7] Jones's most widely cited work centers on the evaluation ofpriority queue implementations.[8] This work has been credited with helping relaunch the empirical study of algorithm performance.[9] In related work, Jones appliedsplay trees todata compression and developed algorithms for applyingparallel computing todiscrete event simulation.[10][11][12] Jones's PhD thesis was in the area ofcapability-based addressing,[1] and he has occasionally published on other aspects of computer architecture.[13] He has published work oncomputer architecture on an occasional basis, such as his proposal for aone-instruction set computer.[14]
