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TECHNICAL WRITING

Technical Writing encompasses gathering data, organizing that data into information, and producing a final document. The following titles represent some of the varied output that the principle staff of RMTCI have provided. Note that, over Doug McGovern's career, these represent a wide variety of subjects, levels, and styles.
  • Biometrics
    • "How to Use Performance Metrics to Assess System Accuracy", Morning Workshop, Advanced Learning Institute Biometrics Summit Winter 2004, Miami, Florida, February 23-25, 2004.
    • "Biometrics - The Devil is in the Details", Biometrics 2003, London, England, October 29-31, 2003.
    • "How to Use Performance Metrics to Assess System Accuracy", Morning Workshop, Advanced Learning Institute Biometrics Summit Fall 2003, Las Vegas, NV, October 14-17, 2003.

  • Smart Cards and Common Criteria
    • "The Smart Card Security Users Group Smart Card Protection Profile Lessons Learned", Proceedings, 3rd International Common Criteria Conference, presented at the Conference, Ottawa Canada, May 13-14, 2002.
    • "EMV Integrated Circuit Card Credit & Debit Application Protection Profile (EMV-App PP), Draft Version 0.4, 14 December 2001 (Principal Author).
    • "Smart Card Security User Group Smart Card Protection Profile (SCSUG-SCPP), Version 3.0, 9 September 2001 (Technical Editor and Principal Author).
    • "Developing Protection Profiles - Getting Started", Proceedings, 16th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, presented at the Conference, New Orleans, LA, December 11-15, 2000.
    • "The Smart Card Security Users Group Smart Card Protection Profile", Proceedings, 23rd National Information Systems Security Conference, presented at the Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, October 16-19, 2000.
    • "Smart Card Protection Profile", Proceedings, 1st International Common Criteria Conference, presented at the Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, May 23-25, 2000.
    • "Common Criteria and Smart Card Security Evaluations", Smart Card Industry Association Monograph, May 2000.
    • "Smart Card Attack Review", Smart Card Industry Association Monograph, June 1999.
    • "Review of Smart Card Security Reports and Publications", presented at Smart Card Industry Association (SCIA) Fall '98 Workshop, Arlington, VA, November 16-17, 1998.
    • "Security Problems in the Real World", presented at the Smart Card Forum Joint Work Group Meetings, Technology Committee, Tampa, FL, November 11-12, 1998.
    • "Smart Card Attack Review - GSM Cellphone Clone, Differential Power Analysis", Smart Card Industry Association Report, July 1998.
    • "Smart Card Security and System Integrity", presented at Smart Card Forum 1997, Fifth Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, September 16, 1997 as part of Smart Card Forum Educational Institute Smart Card Introductory Course.
    • "Multi-Application Cards", presented at the International Cards Council, London, England, April 15, 1997.

  • Financial Systems Security
    • "Security ~ The Devil is in the Details", presented at the 54th Annual Conference of Accountants, School of Accounting, The University of Tulsa, April 25-26, 2000.
    • "Security - It's an Inside Job", presented at the 53rd Annual Conference of Accountants, School of Accounting, The University of Tulsa, April 28-29, 1999.
    • "Threats to Financial System Security", Proceedings, 13th Annual ADPA/NSIA (American Defense Preparedness Association/National Security Industrial Association) Joint Government-Industry Symposium and Exhibition on Security Technology, presented at the Symposium, June 9-12, 1997, Virginia Beach, VA.
    • "Financial System Loss or How to be Nibbled to Death by Ducks and Never Trust Your Money System Again, presented to Arizona State University Security Systems Class, Mesa, AZ, April 30, 1997.
    • "Computer Related Crime", presented at the Computer Security Seminar, State of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM, September 25, 1996.
    • "Financial System Loss as an Example of High Consequence, High Frequency Events", Proceedings, 14th International Systems Safety Conference, presented at the Conference, August 12-17, 1996, Albuquerque, NM.

  • Remote Controlled Vehicles
    • "A Laboratory Simulation Approach to the Evaluation of Vision Systems for Teleoperated Vehicles", with D.P. Miller, proceedings of the International Symposium on Teleoperation and Control, presented at the Symposium, July 12-15, 1988, University of Bristol, England.
    • "Development of a Man-Portable Control Unit for a Teleoperated Land Vehicle" with S.V. Spires, Proceedings, U.S. Army Missile Command and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Conference on Automation and Robotics for Military and Space Applications, presented at the Conference, June 21-22, 1988, Huntsville, AL.
    • "A Demonstration of Retro-Traverse Using a Semi-Autonomous Land Vehicle" with P.R. Klarer and D.P. Jones, Proceedings, U.S. Army Missile Command and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Conference on Automation and Robotics for Military and Space Applications, presented at the Conference, June 21-22, 1988, Huntsville, AL.
    • "Human Interfaces in Remote Driving", Institute for Graphic Communication 7th Conference on 3-D Display Techniques; Real-Time Stereoscopic Video Display Systems for Telerobotics, CAD/CAM and Medical Imaging, March 20-22, 1988, Bedford, MA (invited paper).
    • "Teleoperated Vehicle Systems", NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Mobile Robot Implementation, September 28 - October 2, 1987, Porto, Portugal (invited paper).
    • "Experiences in Teleoperation of Land Vehicles", Spatial Displays and Spatial Instruments; A Symposium and Workshop, sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the University of California Berkeley, August 31 - September 3, 1987, Asilomar, CA (invited paper).
    • "Mobile Robot Vehicles for Physical Security", Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, delivered at the 28th Annual Meeting of the INMM, July 12-15, 1987, Newport Beach, CA.
    • "Current Development Needs in the Control of Teleoperated Vehicles", Proceedings of the American Defense Preparedness Association Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Symposium, delivered at the ADPA Symposium, June 16-17, 1987, Norfolk, VA.
    • "Experiences and Results in Teleoperation of Land Vehicles", in PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION IN VIRTUAL AND REAL ENVIRONMENTS, Stephen R. Ellis ed., Taylor & Francis, 1991.
    • "Teleoperated Mobile Antiarmor Platform (TMAP) Testbed Development", with J.L. Prater and T. Hester, Structures Directorate, Research Development and Engineering Center, U.S. Army Missile Command, MICOM Technical Report RD-ST-88-6, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5000, September 1988.

  • Physical Security
    • "Intrusion Detection Using Ferroelectric Sensor Technology" with E. Tom, 1985 Joint Government/Industry Symposium on Physical Security (Interagency Advisory Committee on Security Equipment / American Defense Preparedness Association), April 9-11, 1985, Eglin AFB, FL.
    • "Insider Sabotage Protection Systems for Nuclear Reactors" with D.L. Mangan, Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, July 18-21, 1982, Washington, D.C.
    • "Perimeter Intrusion Detection and Assessment System" with M.J. Eaton and J. Jacobs, Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, delivered at the 18th Annual Meeting of the INMM, June 29-July 1, 1977, Washington, D.C.
    • Contributor to Intrusion Detection Systems Handbook, ERDA, November, 1976, revised October 1977.

  • Remote Manipulators
    • "An Investigation of Supervisory Control of Remote Manipulation", Mechanism and Machine Theory, Special Issue: Robots and Manipulator Systems, Volume 12, No. 1, 1977, delivered at the Second Conference on Remotely Manned Systems, June 9-11, 1975, Los Angeles, CA.
    • "Comparison of Two Manipulators Using a Standard Task of Varying Difficulty", ASME Paper 74-WA/Bio-4 (1974), delivered at the ASME Winter Annual Meeting, November 17-21, 1974, New York, NY.
    • "A Task Analysis Scheme with Implications for Supervisory Control of Remote Manipulators", Proceedings of the 1974 International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, delivered at the 1974 International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 2-4, 1974, Dallas, TX.

  • Miscellaneous
    • "On the Use of Modeling in a Structural Response Problem", delivered at the 11th Annual Symposium on Experimental Mechanics, February 11-12, 1971, Albuquerque, NM.