Background
Feigenbaum, Joan was born on September 19, 1958 in Brooklyn. Daughter of Harry and Joyce Leslie Feigenbaum.
mathematician computer scientist
Feigenbaum, Joan was born on September 19, 1958 in Brooklyn. Daughter of Harry and Joyce Leslie Feigenbaum.
Bachelor in Mathematics magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1981. Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, Stanford University, 1986. Master of Arts (Privatum), Yale University, 2001.
Principal member technical staff American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1986—1995. Head, algorithms and distributed data American Telephone & Telegraph Company Labs-Research, Florham Park, 1998—1999, member research staff, 1996—2000. Professor computers science department Yale University, New Haven, 2000—2005, Henry Ford II professor computer science, since 2006.
Program chair CRYPTO-91, Santa Barbara, California, 1991. Member program committee STOC-91, New Orleans, 1991, STOC-94, Montreal, Canada, STOC-99, Atlanta. Panel member, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Science Policy, 1994.
Co-chair DIMACS Workshops, 1989, 90, 96. Program committee chair Crypto, 1991, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Conference on Computational Complexity, 1998. Program committee member Crypto, 1989, 1993, 1996, Eurocrypt, 1992, 1999, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Conference on Computation Complexity, 1993, International Computing and Combinators Conference, 1998, Financial Cryptography, 1999, 2000, workshop on Internet and Network Economics, 2005.
National Science Foundation, member eight proposal-evaluation panel, 1993-2005. Steering-committee member, DIMACS Special Focus on Computation and the Socio-Economic Sciences, since 2004. Session organizer, chair, Information Security: Principles and Public Policy, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995, Incentive Compatibility in Internet Computation, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003.
Member, National Academy of Sciences Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, since 2002. Board director Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, 1999-2002. Advisory board member, John Hopkins University Computer Science, 1999-2002.
Steering committee member, DIMACS special year on massive data sets, 1997-1998. Co-chair DIMACS special focus on Next Generation networks, 2000-2003. National Research Council panel member, Intellectual Property Protection in the Emerging Information Infrastructure, 1998-1999.
Steering committee member, conference on computational complexity, 1994-1997, DIMACS special year on logic and algorithms, 1995-1996. Project committee chair, DIMACS, 1994-1996. Participant, National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science Symposium, 1995.
Session organizer, chair, Security and Privacy in the Information Economy, National Academy of Sciences Frontiers in Science Symposium, 1996. Panel member, Past, Present, and Future Challenges, National Science Foundation Conference on Women in Science, 1995. Speaker various colleges, university and conferences.
Invited speaker International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin, 1998. Fellow Association Computing Machinery (guest editor, Communication of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1988-1989. Program committee member symposium on theory of computing, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2001, conference on computer and communuications security, 1993, 1994, 2005, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)/Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics symposium on discrete algorithms, 1999, workshop on security and privacy in digital rights management, 2001, symposium on principals of distrubuted computing, 2004.
Sigecom vice-chair, 2005-2007, Sigact executive committee member, 2005-2007. Program committee chair, workshop on digital rights management, 2002. Co-chair conference on electric commerce, 2004.
General chair conference on electronic commerce, 2006). Charter member, Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women, 1991-1996. Member American Mathematics Society, Association for Women in Mathematics(member-at-large, 2000-2004.
Tutorial co-chair, conference on electronics commerce, 2003. General co-chair, workshop on digital rights management, 2003. Selection committee member, Grace Murray Hopper award, since 2001), International Association Cryptologic Research (program committee CRYPT089 conference 1989, CRYPTO93 conference 1993, Eurocrypt92 conference 1992, Eurocrypt 99 conference 1999, COCCS93 conference 1993, COCCS94 conference 1994, fellows selection committee, since 2003), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Jeffrey Nussbaum.