Douglas W. Jones

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Douglas W. Jones is a computer scientist at the University of Iowa. His research focuses primarily on computer security, particularly electronic voting. He has also contributed to the field of computer architecture, including an implementation of a one instruction set computer.

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 the United States Commission on Civil Rights^[1], the United States House Committee on Science^[2] and the Federal Election Commission^[3] on voting issues. In 2005 he participated as an election observer for the presidential election in Kazakhstan. He is currently a member of the ACCURATE electronic voting project.

Jones received a B.S. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1973, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976 and 1980 respectively.

[edit] References

1. ^ Evaluating Voting Technology.
2. ^ Problems with Voting Systems and the Applicable Standards.
3. ^ Voting System Standards Work that Remains to be Done.

[edit] External links

• Douglas Jones' website
• NPR Science Friday interview on voting technology
• NPR Talk of the Nation interview on voting technology
• Doug Jones ProCon Bio