Interviewed by Elizabeth Townsend Gard

Date December 2017

 

 

The suggestion for Lorrie came to me from an IP colleague at the University of Houston.  Lorrie is the FORE Systems Professor, Computer Science and Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.  She is also a quilter.

 

She also created a password dress and a companion security blanket quilt that was featured in Science magazine.  This ties into her passwords research. (You can even order the fabric at Spoonflower.com)

 

She also had an exhibit "Computers, Quilts and Privacy" in 2013 at the Frame Gallery on the Carnegie Mellon Campus.  She created quilts on her "staybatical", where she combined her love of quilting with her computer science work.  Here is a sixty-minute video where she discusses more about this project. It's really great.

 

She has these quilts she calls "Interleave" and they are really cool.  You can get instructions online for free.

 

In 2016, she was on leave to serve as Chief Technologist for the US Federal Trade Commission : "Cranor has authored over 150 research papers on online privacy and usable security, and has played a central role in establishing the usable privacy and security research community, including her founding of the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security."

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Here is her Spoonflower site for the computer password fabric.