Jim Youll is the founder of the Voting Transparency Project, a year- old effort to create free web-based software to assist in the study, design and operation of public elections, for elections officials, equipment makers and concerned citizens. We hope to focus debate on computer-assisted analysis, simulation and planning. More information about the project, including a draft foundational paper, is available at http://voteknow.net/.
He is also the founder and CTO of Challenge/Response, LLC, an Internet technology startup focused on antifraud, antiphishing, and transaction technologies for Internet e-commerce. Jim has served on the founding board of a nonprofit community ISP, and as a technology consultant for local boards of elections. He previously founded and ran a technology/networking company and a web design firm, and has worked as a photojournalist and writer. His related interests include copyright fairness and fair use, economic solutions to anti-spamming and security, and the stability and governance of the Internet.
Jim received an S.M. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied and created e-commerce technologies, market systems, location-based services and wireless services as a member of the Media Lab's Software Agents Group. He received a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Photojournalism from Bowling Green (Ohio) State University. He blogs at http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blogs/youll/.