Michael Wertheimer

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Dr. Michael Wertheimer (b. February 6, 1957) is a cryptologic mathematician and, as of October 31, 2005, the Assistant Deputy Director and Chief Technology Officer of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for Analysis.^[1] Wertheimer oversees the coordination of Intelligence Community efforts to bring increased depth and accuracy to analysis through technology. He is currently involved in getting the Intelligence Community to use a new wiki tool dubbed Intellipedia. Dr. Wertheimer is also one of the driving forces behind A-Space (A is for analyst), modeled after MySpace and Facebook This new social network is scheduled to open in the first quarter 2008 for U.S. spies and covert operatives across some 16 intelligence agencies to share information with each other.

Prior to this appointment, Wertheimer spent two years in industry building a research group focused on the intelligence community. From 1982 to 2003 he was a cryptologic mathematician at the National Security Agency. In 1999 he was selected as Technical Director for the Data Acquisition Office in the NSA’s Signals Intelligence Directorate. He is the co-author of the 2001 Signals Intelligence Strategy and the 2002 SIGINT architecture model.

1 Education
2 Awards
3 Personal life
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Education

Wertheimer received B.A. degrees in mathematics and philosophy from the University of Rochester. He also received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania.

[edit] Awards

Wertheimer is the recipient of the CryptoMathematics Institute President’s Award, the Sir Peter Marychurch Award (NSA/GCHQ cryptology award), the NSA Adjunct Faculty of the Year Award, and the Exceptional Civilian Service Award.