Lynette I. Millett

Senior Program Officer

lmillett at nas.edu

Lynette I. Millett is a senior program officer and study director at the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council of the National Academies. She currently directs several CSTB projects, including a comprehensive exploration of sustaining growth in computing performance and an examination of how best to develop complex, software-intensive systems in the DoD environment. She served as study director for the CSTB reports Social Security Administration Electronic Service Provision: A Strategic Assessment (August 2007) and Software for Dependable Systems: Sufficient Evidence? (May 2007). Millett's portfolio includes significant portions of CSTB's recent work on software, identity systems, and privacy. She directed the project that produced Who Goes There? Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy, a discussion of authentication technologies and their privacy implications; and IDs—Not That Easy: Questions about Nationwide Identity Systems, a post-9/11 analysis of the challenges presented by large-scale identity systems. She has an M.Sc. in computer science from Cornell University, where her work was supported by graduate fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the Intel Corporation; and a B.A. with honors in mathematics and computer science from Colby College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Current Projects:

Advancing Software-Intensive Systems Producibility
Computing Research for Environmental and Societal Sustainability
Improving Process and Policies for the Acquisition and Test of Information Technologies in the Department of Defense
Sustaining Growth in Computing Performance
Whither Biometrics?

Associated CSTB Publications:

Preliminary Observations on DoD Software Research Needs and Priorities: A Letter Report (2008)
Summary of a Workshop on Software-Intensive Systems and Uncertainty at Scale (2007)
Social Security Administration Electronic Service Provision: A Strategic Assessment (2007)
Software for Dependable Systems: Sufficient Evidence? (2007)
Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age (2007)
Summary of a Workshop on the Technology, Policy, and Cultural Dimensions of Biometric Systems (2006)
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technologies: A Workshop Summary (2004)
Computer Science: Reflections on the Field, Reflections from the Field (2004)
Summary of a Workshop on Software Certification and Dependability (2004)
Who Goes There? Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy (2003)
IDs -- Not That Easy: Questions About Nationwide Identity Systems (2002)
Cybersecurity Today and Tomorrow: Pay Now or Pay Later (2002)
Embedded, Everywhere: A Research Agenda for Networked Systems of Embedded Computers (2001)
White Paper: Cyber-Security and the Insider Threat to Classified Information (2000)