Information Systems Technology
Technical Biography
Richard P. Lippmann
Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Information Systems Technology Group
Rm C-290G
244 Wood Street
Lexington, MA 02420-9108
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email: lippmann@ll.mit.edu
Richard P. Lippmann received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1970 and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978. His Ph.D. thesis dealt with signal processing for the hearing impaired.
From 1978 to 1981, he was Director of the Communications Engineering Laboratory of the Boys Town Institute for Communication Disorders in Children, Omaha, NE. He worked on speech perception, speech-training aids for deaf children, sound-alerting aids for the deaf, and signal processing for hearing aids. In 1981 he joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory, and is currently a Senior Staff Member in the Information Systems Technology Group. Research interests include speech recognition by humans and machines, development of improved neural network and statistical pattern classifiers, the development of open-source LNKnet software for pattern classification, automatically analyzing the security of large networks and finding effective remediations, and the application of neural networks and statistics to problems in computer intrusion detection. He has supervised numerous MIT student theses in these areas.
Dr. Lippmann has been a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He received the first IEEE Signal Processing Magazine award for an article entitled "An Introduction to Computing with Neural Nets," published in April 1987. He was program chair of the 1989 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) and is a founding member of the NIPS Foundation created to support this yearly conference. More recently he was program chair of the 2008 Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) conference and is a member of IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee.