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Lorrie Cranor: "Computers, Quilts, and Privacy"
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Lorrie Faith Cranor is a Carnegie Mellon University computer science and engineering professor by day, and an amateur quilter, sewist, photographer, soccer player, and bass flutist on nights and weekends. She co-founded a security awareness training company and has served as Chief Technologist for the US Federal Trade Commission. She started hand quilting small things as a way to maintain her sanity while finishing her engineering doctoral degree; when she graduated she bought a sewing machine and started quilting much bigger things. She sews in her very limited free time, in between running an academic security and privacy research center and trying to keep up with her three teenage/young adult children. Although her appetite for buying fabric has exceeded her time to sew, she has none-the-less managed to produce more quilts than the walls and beds in her three-story family home really need. She spent the 2012-2013 academic year on sabbatical as a fellow in the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University where she worked on fiber arts projects that combined her interests in privacy and security, quilting, computers, and technology. She views quilt design and construction through the twin lenses of art and engineering. She has won awards in local and national quilt competitions, and several of her quilts have been featured on the covers of books and journals. She had a solo exhibit of her quilts at the Pittsburgh Children's Museum and one of her quilts was featured in Science magazine after winning an award in a scientific visualization competition. Two of her privacy and security themed quilts as well as her original "bad password" dress (which she wore on the Today Show) are now in the privacy art collection of the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
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