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IEEE-USA Innovation Institute Faculty
 Steve
Walker
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Steve Walker is President
of Steve Walker & Associates and Managing Partner of Walker
Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund specializing in the
Mid Atlantic region.
Previously, Walker was the
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Trusted Information Systems,
Inc. (TIS), which he founded in 1983. Before its purchase by Network
Associates, TIS had become a publicly traded company, employing more
than 350 people with offices throughout the world.
Prior to TIS, Walker had a
22-year career with the Department of Defense at the National
Security Agency, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and
the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He was a member of a team
that developed the ARPAnet, the breakthrough packet switching system
that evolved into the Internet. He is nationally recognized for his
pioneering work on the DoD Computer Security Initiative,
establishment of the National Computer Security Center and the
Defense Data Network.
Walker is the current
chairman of the Technology Leadership Consortium, a volunteer group
of leaders of technology organizations across the region. In that
role he is leading the Informatics Coalition, an effort to recognize
the significance of informatics in all aspects of our region’s
development.
www.informaticscoalition.com.
Walker received the
Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Award and the
first National Computer System Security Award. He also received the
KPMG High Technology Entrepreneur Award and the Greater Baltimore
Technology Council’s “Baltimore’s Extraordinary Technology Advocate”
(BETA) Award. Walker is a member of Board of the Maryland Technology
Development Corporation and the Greater Baltimore Technology Council
as well as many private company Boards of Directors and several
university Boards of Visitors.
Walker holds an MSEE from
University of Maryland College Park and BSEE from Northeastern
University. He has testified often before the U.S. Congress and is
widely acknowledged as an expert and leader in information security
technology and policy.
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