Faculty & Staff
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Sam Nunn School of International Affairs
781 Marietta Street, NW
Room 302
Atlanta, GA 30332 Phone: 404-385-1461
E-mail: seymour.goodman@cc.gatech.edu
Office Hours: Mondays 2-3 or By Appointment
Seymour Goodman
Professor of International Affairs & Computing
Co-Director, Center for International Strategy, Technology, & Policy and the Georgia Tech Information Security Center
Education
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
M.S., Applied Mechanics/Mathematics, Columbia University
B.S., English/Urban Planning/Civil Engineering, Columbia University
Research Focus
Seymour (Sy) E. Goodman is Professor of International Affairs and Computing at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. He also serves as Co-Director of the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy and Co-Director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center.
Prof. Goodman studies international developments in the information technologies and related public policy issues. In this capacity, he has over 200 publications and served on many academic, government and industry advisory, study, and editorial committees. He has been the International Perspectives editor for the Communications of the ACM for the last 19 years, and has studied computing on all seven continents and more than 80 countries. He recently served as Chair of the Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, National Research Council, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Academies of Science and Engineering.
Immediately before coming to Georgia Tech, Prof. Goodman was the director of the Consortium for Research in Information Security and Policy (CRISP), jointly with the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the School of Engineering, Stanford University. He has held appointments at the University of Virginia (Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Soviet and East European Studies), The University of Chicago (Economics), Princeton University (The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Mathematics), and the University of Arizona (MIS, Middle Eastern Studies). Prof. Goodman was an undergraduate at Columbia University, and obtained his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology where he worked on problems of applied mathematics and mathematical physics.
Courses Taught
INTA 2040: Science, Technology, and International Affairs
INTA 3101: Challenge of Terrorism
INTA 4050: International Affairs & Technology Policy
INTA 8000-8001: Science, Technology, and International Affairs
CS 6725: Information Security Policies and Strategies