Florence Hudson

Biography

Florence D. Hudson is Executive Director for the NSF and NIH funded Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at Columbia University in New York City, Principal Investigator for the COVID Information Commons and Cybersecurity Risk Conference, Founder of the National Student Data Corps, and Founder and CEO of FDHint, LLC, an advanced technology and diversity & inclusion consulting firm. She is a former IBM Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer at Internet2, Special Advisor at the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, and NASA scientist. She is a published Springer editor and author for their women in engineering and science series, and leads the IEEE/UL Working Group on Clinical Internet of Things data and device interoperability with TIPPSS - Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety and Security. She earned her Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering degree from Princeton University, and executive education diplomas from Harvard Business School and Columbia University.

EDUCAUSE Publications

  • The Internet of Things Is Here
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    Higher education has an opportunity to support the development of the technical and business model innovations for an economy enabled by the Internet of Things, while also building its leaders and addressing its risks.

EDUCAUSE Presentations