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Acquisti Receives 2005 Privacy Enhancing Technology Award

Professor Alessandro Acquisti is the recipient of the 2005 Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET).

Heinz School Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Public Policy Alessandro Acquisti has been awarded the 2005 Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET). This prize is presented to researchers who made an outstanding contribution to the theory, design, implementation, or deployment of privacy enhancing technology at the annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop.

Acquisti received the award for "Privacy in Electronic Commerce and the Economics of Immediate Gratification," in the Proceedings of the ACM Electronic Commerce Conference (EC 04). New York, NY: ACM Press, 21-29, 2004.

Professor Acquisti's work focuses on the social and economic impact of information technology, and in particular the interaction and interconnection of human and artificial agents in highly networked information economies.

Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, he worked at the Xerox PARC labs, the Internet Ecologies Group, and RIACS, NASA Ames Research Center. In 2000 Prof. Acquisti co-founded PGuardian Technologies, Inc., a provider of Internet security and privacy services, for which he developed and wrote two currently pending patents.