CURRICULUM VITAE


Jean-Francois Blanchette

Science & Technology Studies Department

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • 110 8th St. • Troy, NY 12180-3590

Tel: (518) 276-2711 • Home: (518) 274-6810 • Fax: (518) 276-2659

Email: blanc@rpi.edu • Web: www.rpi.edu/~blanc

 

Currently: Centre d'études sur la coopération juridique internationale

Centre national de la recherche scientifique

27, rue Paul Bert, 94204 Ivry sur Seine, France

Tel: +33 (0)1 49 60 40 56 • Fax: +33 (0)1 46 71 12 73

 

Educational Background:

1997 - present: Ph.D. candidate, Science & Technology Studies,

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY (degree expected 9/2001).

1992 - 1997: B.Sc., M.Sc., Computer Science (cryptology),

Université de Montréal, Montreal.

 

Grants and Financial Awards (selection)

1999: NSF doctoral dissertation award, Law and Social Science Program (Global Legal Studies)

1997: Student Achievement Award, Canadian Advanced Technology Association - Fondation Desjardins

1997: Graduate School Scholarship, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

1997 - 2001: Postgraduate Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

 

Publications (selection)

"First European RSA Conference Highlights Need for Careful Security Infrastructure Planning in the Information Society," Baltic IT Review 17: 41-42.

"Cryptology," Censorship: A World Encyclopedia, (Derek Jones, ed.), Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London, 1999.

(book review) Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1998). Ethics and Information Technology 1(2): 163-166.

(book review) Information Warfare and Security, Dorothy E. Denning (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1999). Ethics and Information Technology 1(4): 237-238.

 

Papers Delivered at Conferences (selection)

"Redefining the practices of authenticity: Information security technologies and the French notarial profession", 4S/EASST joint conference, University of Vienna, 27-30th September 2000.

"Dematerializing French Bureaucracy: (Ethno)graphic tales of cryptology in the field", Virtual Society? Get Real! Conference, Virtual Society? Programme, Ashridge House, Hertfordshire, UK, 4-5th May 2000.

"Data retention and the right to be forgotten, or record-keeping with a French attitude," Technology and Identity Conference, Cornell University, April 16-18, 1999.

"Signing on the line, electronically: A story of ritual, mathematics, and infrastructure for the information age," First International Workshop for the Foundations of Information Ethics (FINE '99), Kyoto University, March 15-16, 1999.

"On the social discourse of cryptology," Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE '98), London School of Economics, December 14-15, 1998.

 

Editorial Work (selection)

2000 - Present: Member of the Editorial Board, Ecommerce Security Monitor.

November 1998 - December 1999: Editorial Advisory Board, Computer and Communications Security Review.

April 1997 - November 1998: contributing editor to Computer and Communications Security Reviews.

 

Professional Organizations

2000 - present: American Anthropological Association (Political and legal anthropology section).

1998 - present: Society for the Social Studies of Science.

1996 - present: International Association for Cryptologic Research.

1993 - present: Association for Computing Machinery.