Carolyn Meinel’s Long Resume

Carolyn P. Meinel’s Long Resume (in some cases I’m listed as “Carolyn Henson” AKA “Carolyn Meinel Henson” under my former married name.)

• April 16, 2024 – present: President, BestWorldGroup, a nonprofit focusing on our Bot or Not project: How to detect the online activities of AI bots, given the increasing dangers of this fast changing technology. As part of this research, our botmasters Jeremy Lichtman and Phillip Godzin provide bot-based forecasts on geo-politicvval topics every weekday, while our News Briefs expert, David Isenberg keeps us up to date on the latest Generative AI news.
• We will always let you know wherever anything on BestWorld or this website has been researched or written in whole or in part with AI. 
• Dec. 2016 – 2014t: Participant in multiple research projects on crowdsourced detection of replicability of research papers, most recently with repliCATS, and beginning with the experiment that led to “Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015.” In the 2024 RepliCATS experiment, forecasted replicability of draft social sciences papers, served as a team moderator.
• March 4, 2024 – June 10, 2024 AI Alignment Course, with the objective of comparing with the structure and content of the ongoing Existential Risks Persuasion Tournament.
• 2022 – 2024 Pro Forecaster with the RAND Forecasting Initiative, formerly INFER (INtegrated Forecasting and Estimates of Risks), which uses crowdsourced forecasting to generate early warning and signals about the complex future that policy and decision makers within the US and allies must act upon. In 2022, Meinel was rated the # 1 upvotes, seventh highestl ranked forecaster, 2024 forecasting season, #1 upvotes and third highest ranked forecaster, 2023 and the sixth highest ranked forecaster, 2022 in INFER, the predecessor of the Rand Forecasting Initiative.
• 2022: Participant in the Existential Risks Persuasion Tournament. Interim report here. This was a non-hierarchical effort in which all participants are equal. See also here for an insider’s view—>
• March – July, 2020: Participant, IARPA’s GJP 2.0 competition. Our crowdsourced forecasting team overall was more accurate than the big models run by epidemiologists. Within this team, Meinel was ranked among the Top Ten best COVID-19 forecasters,
• Aug. – Sept. 2020: Some examples from the unpublished reciprocal scoring exercise forecasting the Covid-19 epidemic in 2021. We did not do well, but neither did anyone else, to Meinel’s knowledge. Too many wild cards.
• 2019 – 2020: Served on both teams funded by the DARPA SCORE program, a crowdsourced forecasting effort on likely replicability of social sciences research papers.
• 2019 – 2021: Served on IARPA’s winning FOCUS team of the University of Pennsylvania, forecasting outcomes of bots fighting bots created by John Hopkins APL.
• 2016-2020: Beta tester of the large language model Semantic Studio, including using it as one of the inputs to Meinel’s coauthored paper “What do forecasting rationales reveal about thinking patterns of top geopolitical forecasters?”
• 2019 – 2020: Served on the forth place winning team (out 37) with IARPA’s Geopolitical Forecasting Competition II. This competition provided data from ~500 Amazon Mechanical Turk workers forecasting 304 questions. Meinel’s team used that data as evaluated by forty models of the team’s creation, and, later, other models plus additional data from the Good Judgment Project as inputs to the paper cited above, “What do forecasting rationales reveal...”
• 2017 – 2018: Served on the Johns Hopkins APL T&E team with IARPA’s CREATE program.
• 2016 – Jan. 2024: Chief Technology Officer and member, Board of Directors, Institute for Strategic and Innovative Technologies (ISIT). I resigned to focus on an outgrowth of my work there, the BestWorld project. I’m still providing consulting assistance to ISIT from time to time.
• 2014 – 2015: Participant in the Good Judgment Project of IARPA’s ACE program. Was third best of a cohort of >2k competitors, officially rated both as a superforecaster and a “super process analyst.”
• 2008 – 2009: Consultant to 8 Rivers Capital .
• 2005 – 2006: Consultant, Institute for Advanced Technology, the University of Texas at Austin.
• 2005 – 2006: Santa Fe Institute Adaptive and Resilient Computing Security project.
• 1999 – 2017: Rated “Best of the best” computer security expert as a volunteer at AllExperts
• 1998 – 2006: Systems Advisory Group Enterprises, Inc.: product tester/developer for its BRICKServer II Linux-based operating system. Also assisted in development of new products. A patent was issued to Vincent Larsen (President of SAGE, Inc.) and Meinel for “System & method of table building for a process-based security system using intrusion detection Publication number: 20050044381x.”
• 1999 – 2001: Organizer of one of the world’s longest-running public hacker break-in challenges while associated with SAGE, Inc. and before that at Route 66 Internet Services. Set up and administered systems in the wargame running OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Windows NT, Irix (Silicon Graphics) and several custom variants on Linux.
• 1997 – 2001: Balloon Federation of America competition official for many events in New Mexico, for several U.S. national competitions, and the World Air Games in Sevilla, Spain, in June 2001.
• 1994 – 2000: Consultant to SAIC Examples: Double Eagle program (1994), an application of neutral particle beams; Barrage ultra-long distance guided projectile program supporting Miles Palmer.
• 1994 – 1995 Adjunct Professor for five semesters at The University of New Mexico, Anderson School of Management, .
• Aug. 13 – 14, 2002: Cyberadversary Workshop, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Awareness Office. Presented “Evolution of the Hacker Armies,”.
• 1998 – 1990: DARPA’s Off-line Intrusion Detection Program. Provided the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory with exploits against Windows NT systems for testing against intrusion detection systems.
• 1995 – 1996: Consultant to the Computational Sciences Division of the Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory.
• 1995: Assisted American Paging, Inc. (at the time, the nation’s 7th largest paging company) in research and evaluation of narrowband Personal Communications Services (digital cellular data) market and technology opportunities.
• 1994: Assisted Computing Devices Inc. in winning contract for payload computers for the Teledesic communications satellite constellation.
• 1994 – 1995: Analyzed impact of emerging freight technologies on the California economy for the California Trade and Goods Movement Study. Wrote portions of its report.
• 1992 – 1993: Principal investigator for technology transfer contract with Alliance for Photonic Technology. Major accomplishment was to get Sandia National Laboratories in on the ground floor of the Federal/industry Flat Panel Display initiative, which brought several tens of millions of dollars of research funding into the Labs.  Helped to lay ground for a later CRADA with Teledesic.
• 1988 – 19 92: Assisted a number of Japanese firms (through various U.S. intermediaries) in scouting small high technology companies for investments and in gathering intelligence on competitors. Examples: Shimizu, Mitsui, IHI.
• 1985 – 1989: DARPA Tactical Technology Office Science and Engineering Technical Advisor (SETA) on hypervelocity impact and electromagnetic propulsion.
• 1983 – 1986: DARPA Strategic Technology Office SETA as an employee of Analytic Decisions, Inc., performed orbital mechanics and satellite sensor analyses, wrote computer simulations to accomplish this, also on behalf of DARPA/STO coded a portion of a U.S. Navy computer wargame; Rapid Optics Fabrication Technology program; Assisted bringing DARPA/STO into the SpaceWatch program by funding repurposing a Kit Peak Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope combined with DARPA’s first ever 2-dimensional CCD detector for what became today’s Asteroid Watch. Supported the Strategic Defense Initiative Office.
• 1983: Executive Director, High Frontiers Political Action Committee. Lt. Gen. Daniel O. Graham (former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency) was its Chairman of the Board.
• 1975 – 1980: L-5 Society for Space Development; roles included president, editor, L-5 News magazine. Obtained NGO status with the UN. As president, supported by lobbyist Leigh Ratiner and L-5’s activists with its Legislative Information Service, led the lobbying/publicity effort that led to the United States rejecting the 1979 United Nations Treaty Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies.
• 1972 – 1975 full time, part time through 1983: Cofounder, Analog Precision, Inc. Raised capital,, managed workers. Designed and built special-purpose digital and analog computers for industrial applications, often as a subcontractor to IBM. Developed the world’s first vehicle performance monitor computer as a contractor to Road Machinery Co. Devices were first used in open pit mining trucks. .
• 1972: At the urging of Meinel’s neighbors styling themselves “The Good Neighbors Union” (GNU) she agreed to their requests to stand as a candidate in the election of our local Arizona House of Representatives district. Our objective was to publicize the likelihood that OPEC would trigger an energy crisis and the need to support solar energy research. She won her precinct (yay, neighbors!), and got 21% of the district-wide vote. This got the attention of the public, politicians and the media. It was just one small effort to build alternatives to pollution from fossil fuels, but every bit helps. Today Meinel owns a 20 KW solar array for her New Mexico mountain valley ranch.

Publications (partial list):

• Christopher W. Karvetski, Carolyn Meinel, Daniel T. Maxwell, Yunzi Lu, Barbara A. Mellers, Philip E. Tetlock, What do forecasting rationales reveal about thinking patterns of top geopolitical forecasters?, International Journal of Forecasting, Volume 38, Issue 2,
  2022, Pages 688-704, ISSN 0169-2070, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2021.09.003.
• Contributed a credited photo of a donkey with the rarest of rare colors, rose dun, Equine Color Genetics, Dr. Phillip Sponenberg, 3rd ed. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) Fig. 8.158, pg. 200.
• How to Defend or Attack the Internet with Border Gateway Protocol, Cisco library.
• Botnets, Part I: Why They Strike and How to Defend Against Them.
• Botnets II: Emerging Threats, Tactics, and Defenses.
• “For Love of a Gun,” the history, technologies of electromagnetic guns, IEEE Spectrum, July, 2007, pp. 40 – 46.
• “Scanning Morality,” Science & Theology News, April 2006; this article was reprinted in Brain in the News, May 2006.
• “Hackers, Hoaxers and Policy Makers,” Skeptical Enquirer, April 2006.
• “More than Money: Altruism Can Make Everyone a Winner in Business,” a report on the 2006 World Economic Forum, Science & Theology News, March/April 2006.
• Contributed an appendix on how computers get broken into for the Webster’s New World Dictionary of Hackers (Wiley, 2006).
• Contributed portions to Streetwise Small Business Book of Lists: Hundreds of Lists to Help You Reduce Costs, Increase Revenues, and Boost Your Profits (Adams Streetwise Series), Gene Marks (Adams, 2006).
• “Cybercrime Treaty could Chill Research,” IEEE Security and Privacy, July/Aug. 2004, pp. 28-32.
• “Coat Color Genetics: Paint and Pinto Genetics,” Today’s Horse Trader, Vol. VII, No. 6, May 2004.
• “How to Buy a Horse at a Livestock Auction,” Hoofprints magazine, March 2004.
• Überhacker II: More Ways to Break into Computers (Loompanics, 2003). Unlike most “how to break in” manuals, this one emphasizes how to set up a laboratory and run replicable experiments. It also covers how to set up and operate private and public break-in games, including how to prevent exploitation of the test bed by criminals for outgoing attacks. It covers major classes of break-in and denial of service exploits, and reveals techniques useful in discovering new exploits.
• Contributed a chapter to Computers in Society, 03/04, a college textbook (McGraw Hill/Dushkin, 2003).
• Contributed a chapter to The Hacking of America, by Bernadette Schell, et al. (Quorum, 2002).
• “Why Are Computers Easy to Break Into – and What Is the Solution?” paper given at the Internal Audit & Financial Management Conference, the annual meeting of the Texas State Auditor’s Association, February 19-21, 2002, Austin, Texas.
• Überhacker: How to Break into Computers (Loompanics, 2001).
• “Your Friend, The Computer Hacker,” 2001 Main Catalog, Loompanics Unlimited. Tells stories about the good deeds performed by many computer hackers, contrasting this culture with the behaviors of computer criminals.
• Columnist on computer security for MessageQ magazine. Sample articles:
  •   “It’s 2 A.M. Do You Know Where Your Modems–Both Unauthorized and Authorized — Are?”
  • “How Computer Criminals Defeat IDS”
• Frequent contributor to Antionline.com, 2000-2001. Wrote “Our Weekly Quick Tip” and “Granny Hacker from Heck” series.
• BrickServer Manual (Systems Advisory Group Enterprises, Inc. 2000)
• Consultant to Kurt Andersen (a writer with the New Yorker) in designing denial of service and penetration techniques for Unix and Windows NT for his novel, Turn of the Century (Random House, 1999).
• “How to Meet Your Future Most Valued Employee,” SC Magazine, Oct. 1999, pg. 17.
• The Happy Hacker: A Guide to Mostly Harmless Computer Hacking, four editions along with a Japanese language edition (American Eagle Publications, 1998 – 2003). Covers fun, legal, old-fashioned hacking techniques ranging from hex editing executables to analyzing and responding to intrusion detection system alerts.
• “Code Red for the Web,” Scientific American, Oct. 2001. This article was reprinted in Best American Science Writing, Matt Ridley, ed. (Lipper Publications, 2002) and the college textbook, Computers and Society (Dushkin, 2003).
• “How Hackers Evade Intrusion Detection Systems,” paper given at Security.Net 2001, September 12-14, Toronto, Canada. (Appeared by speaker phone because all flights were grounded for a few days after 9/11/2001)
• Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History, Raul Rojas, ed. (Fitzroy Dearborn, April 2001). Contributed sections on viruses, Trojans, and worms.
• “How Hackers Break in – and How they Are Caught,” Scientific American, Oct. 1998,
• Carolyn Meinel, “The Hacker Wargame Experiment,” Information Security Bulletin, Vol. 3 Issue 4, June 1998, pp. 35-40.
• Carolyn Meinel, “The Happy Hacker Educates the Curious,” Internet Underground, Nov. 1996, 59.
• Mims, F.M., III, Meinel, C., Roosen, R.G., Russell, R.T., Hawkins, G.P., and Easton, H., 1996, Stratospheric aerosol cloud of unknown origin. Referenced here: https://volcano.si.edu/reports_misc.cfm?vn=600200
• World Intermodal Freight Market (Forecast International, 1994)
• World IVHS Market (Forecast International, 1994)
• “Transportation Technology Trends,” Transnet West (National Technical Information Service, 1994) funded by the Federal Highway Administration.
• “How the West Was Won… or, The L-5 Society Defeated the Moon Treaty,” Spacefaring Gazette, Vol. 10, No. 3, June/July 1994, pp. 1, 8.
• “Technology Transfer: It’s Getting Easier, Sensor magazine, Feb. 1992.
• “IVHS Demonstration Project: Incident Management,” Final Report to the Alliance for Transportation Research, Sept. 12, 1992.
• “Advanced Vehicle Electronics,” World Automotive Industry Bulletin, Feb. 4, 1992.
• Emerging Technologies, Volumes 3 and 4, Forecast International, 1991.
• “Private Funds Back Moon Base Research,” Space News, May 7-13, 1990, pg. 12.
• Carolyn Meinel, A.J. Toepfer, et al., “Remote Resource Mapping of Solar System Bodies,” Engineering, Construction and Operations in Space, Proceedings of the Space 90 Conference, ASCE, Johnson, S.W. and Wetzel, J.P., eds., April 22-26, 1990.
• “Electronics Helps Launch Golden Age of Astronomy,” Military & Aerospace Electronics, Nov. 1990, pp. 11-12.
• “DARPA Gets Serious about Light-Weight EHF Satellites,” Military & Aerospace Electronics, July 1990.
• Fair, Harry D., Phil Coose, Carolyn P. Meinel, and Derek A. Tidman. Electromagnetic earth-to-space launch; IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Jan. 1989 pp.9-16
• Senior Corresponding Editor, Washington Technology magazine. Sample articles:
  • “Sandia Sparks Particle Beam,” Sept. 27, 1990
  • “OSC’s Taurus Slips Schedule,” Aug. 9, 1990
  • “El Segundo, Calif. Resists Air Force Move,” June 21, 1990
  • “Space Power to Peddle Soviet Reactor,” Washington Technology, Jan. 25 – Feb. 7, 1990, pg. 9.
  • “American Rocket Co. Is Set for Sept. Launch,” Sept. 14, 1989, pg. 10.
  •  “Voyager Leads Space Science Revival,” Sept. 14, 1989
  •  “Hypersonic Weapons Technology Program Resurrected,” May 25, 1989
  • “Strategic Defense Alliance Spins off Tiny Technology,” July 21, 1988
• “Particle Beam Probe for Lunar Resource Mapping,” Carolyn Meinel, A. J. Toepfer, et al. Proceedings of the AIAA/Jet Propulsion 2nd International Conference on Solar System Exploration, Aug. 22-24, 1989.
• “Remote Resource Mapping of Solar System Bodies,” Carolyn Meinel, A. J. Toepfer, et al., Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space, Proceedings of the Space 90 Conference, April 23-26, 1990, (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990) pp. 266-273.
• Harry Fair, Carolyn Meinel, and Kelly Parks. “Electromagnetic Launch: Highway to the stars,” IEEETransactions on Magnetics, Vol. 34, No. 2, March 1988, pp.703-710
• Authored sections of World Space Forecast (Forecast International, 1988, 1989 editions).
• Guide to Electromagnetic Launch, 2 vols. (Forecast International, two editions, 1988, 1989)
• “Military space launch today: a US perspective,” Carolyn Meinel and Tomas Blau, Military Technology, Volume XII, Issue 10, Oct 1988, pp. 137-142.
• “Asteroid Sample Return,” presentation at the Micro Spacecraft for Space Science Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, July 6 and 7, 1988. Sponsored by the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and NASA.
• “Options for Hypervelocity Kill against Aircraft,” Carolyn Meinel and Stephen Saunders, Proceedings of the October 28-30, 1986 Strategic Systems Symposium held at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey, California.
• “Hypervelocity Then and Now,” by Harry Fair, acknowledged “for assistance in developing this paper,” International Journal of Impact Engineering, Hypervelocity Impact, Proceedings of the 1986 Symposium, Oct. 21-24, 1986, pp. 1-11.
• “Opportunities for Long-Range Hypervelocity Kinetic Kill,” Carolyn Meinel, Thomas Blau, Dan Goure, Proceedings of the October 22-25, 1985 Strategic Systems Symposium held at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey, California.
• Metal Carbonyl Refining and Vaporforming for Asteroidal Ores, pp. 160-164.Space Manufacturing 5: Engineering with Lunar and Asteroidal Materials, Proceedings of the Seventh Princeton/AIAA/SSI Conference, May 8-11, 1985 (AIAA, 1985)
• “Near-Earth Asteroids Potential Bonanza for Ambitious Military Space Projects,” Defense Science 2003+, Feb. 1985, pp. 40-47.
• Frequent contributor to MIT Technology Review magazine, 1982 – 1986. Sample articles:
  •  “Experts Fight Over SDI,” book review of How to Make Nuclear Weapons Obsolete, April 1986, pp. 78-79.
  • “Fighting MAD,” April, 1984, pp. 31-51; story debated in “Hopping MAD,” Oct. 1986, pp. 4-6.
  • “Law of the Sea: No Alternative,” May/June 1983.
  •  “Will Pac Man Consume Our Nation’s Youth?” (humor) , May/June 1983. Reprinted in the Social Issues Resources Series, Vol 2 – Article #49.
  • “Alternatives to Nuclear Weapons,” February/March 1983, pp. 79, 80. Reprinted by Rep. Ken Cramer (R-CO) and distributed as a press release in support of President Ronald Reagan’s March 23, 1983 “Star Wars” speech.
• “Strategies to Minimize Delta V Costs of Extraterrestrial Resources,” Carolyn Meinel, Kelly Parks, National Space Strategy: A Progress Report, Proceedings of the 18th Annual Electronics and Aerospace Systems Conference (IEEE Eascon ’85) 1985.
•  “Carbonyl Processing of Asteroid Resources,” John S. Lewis and Carolyn Meinel, Proceedings of the October 29-31, 1984, Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century Symposium.
• “Asteroid Mining & Space Bunkers,” John S. Lewis and Carolyn Meinel, Defense Science 2001+ magazine, June 1983.
• “Adelman, Apple II Bust Crypto Code,” Infoworld, Oct. 4, 1982.
• Special correspondent, World Aerospace Weekly, Forecast International, 1982-1983. Sample story: “Naval Forces: New Arena for BMD?” Dec. 17, 1982, pg. 6.
• “Space Lasers: the ultimate in weaponry?” by Tony Davis and Carolyn Meinel Henson, Tucson Citizen, Oct. 28, 1981, pg. 23A
• Monthly columnist, Future Life Magazine, 1979-1981. Sample articles
  • “Lightcraft,” Nov. 1981
  • “Spaceburgers,” May, 1980
• “Ezekiel’s Wheel,” Annita Harlan, Carolyn Meinel et. al. paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Nov. 17-21, 1976.
• “Space Agriculture Retort,” from Space Colonies, (CoEvolution Quarterly, 1977) pg. 95.
• Editor and author of approximately half of the content of the monthly L-5 News magazine, Sept. 1975 through Dec. 1979; this magazine now is known as Ad Astra. All issues of the L-5 News are archived here —>
• “Closed Ecosystems of High Agricultural Yield,” H.K. Henson, C. Meinel Henson, Proceedings of the Space Manufacturing Facilities (Space Colonies) Princeton/AIAA/NASA Conference, May 7-9, 1975.
• Low-Latitude Noctilucent Cloud of 2 November 1963. Meinel, Aden B.; Meinel, Carolyn P. Science, Volume 143, Issue 3601, 3 January 1964, pp. 38-39, http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/143/3601/38.pdf

Videos: http://youtube.com/cmeinel Mostly about horses, mules and donkeys.

Examples of presentations which were not accompanied by published papers:

• June 2023: Publicized by INFER, as seen on the LinkedIn news feed:
• Webinar: Mirror Mirror on the Wall: What Country Will Rule them All. May 20, 2020. Results from Meinel’s experiments with the Semantic Studio large language model.
• IEEE Spectrum: A Powerful Idea
• Verbosity: Hack 101
• “How Hackers Hide,” also participated on a panel on how to secure web sites, WebSec 2002 Conference, Secure i-World Conference & Expo, Aug. 19-21, 2002, San Diego, California.
• “How Hackers Evade Intrusion Detection Systems,” presentation given at Security.Net 2001, September 12-14, Toronto, Canada. Spoke via speaker phone on account of freeze on commercial aircraft flights.
• Speaker, Def Con 4(1996) and Def Con 5 (1997) hackers’ conventions, Las Vegas, NV. In the 1995 Def Con 3, Meinel made an impromptu and indeed prolonged presentation of how to use telnet to forge emails and manually scan for other open ports using her NSFnet account via a live phone line she found in the convention’s Tropicana Hotel ballroom.
• Double Eagle Lunar Mapping Project, Technical Interchange Meeting, Department of Planetary Sciences, The University of Arizona, Dec. 21, 1992.
• Double Eagle/Lunar Scout meeting, Johnson Space Center, Dec. 7, 1992.
• Conducted a seminar on delta V considerations of asteroid resources, Department of Planetary Sciences, The University of Arizona, Jan. 1989.
• “Science and Journalism Symposium,” Harvard University, 1986.
• Seminar on asteroid resources, Rensselaer Polytechnic 1985.
• Many presentations to the DARPA Strategic Technology Office, 1983-1986. Examples:
  • Analyses of bistatic radar orbital deployment concepts
  • Coverage calculations of optical satellites in low Earth orbit constellations
  • Potentials for ground-based observations of certain orbital configurations
• “Near Earth Asteroids: Potential Low Cost Source of Raw Materials in Orbit,” presentations:
  • DARPA Directed Energy Office, Jan. 5, 1984
  • NASA HQ, Dec. 12, 1983
  • Office of the U.S. Department of Defense, Research and Engineering, Nov. 14, 1983
  • DARPA Strategic Technology Office, Oct. 12, 1983
  • Defensive Technologies Study Team, Aug. 15, 1983
  • These presentations contributed to the creation of the Spacewatch program, later becoming JPL’s Asteroid Watch, partly funded in its early stage by DARPA.
• Organized a debate, “The Case for Weapons in Space,” held in Tucson, AZ Oct. 29, 1981 as part of a two-year series of events, “Tracking the 21st Century,” funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
• “Prospects for Solar Energy,” International Scientific Forum on an Acceptable World Energy Future, November 27-December 1, 1978
• Presentation on considerations for space agriculture for the 1975 Summer Study Fellowship Program in Engineering Systems Design, NASA Ames Research Center, July, 1975.
•  “Arizona, 1984?” presentation of future energy technologies at a meeting sponsored by the Associated Students of The University of Arizona, Nov. 1, 1972.
• Presentation on solar energy for the Women’s Group at Southwest Communications, Oct. 23, 1972.

Interviews and news stories (some refer to Meinel under her old married name of Henson):

• How do Pro Forecasters stay encouraged through highs and lows of forecasting?
• IEEE Spectrum: “A Powerful Idea” http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/a-powerful-idea
• Verbosity: “Carolyn Meinel, Hack 101” http://verbosity.wiw.org/issue6/meinel.html
• Biography on the Cisco Press website: http://www.ciscopress.com/authors/bio.asp?a=C13E4C61-B360-4D44-AA0A-F0245C742C69
• “We were long gone when they pulled the plug,” by Adam Penenberg, Forbes  magazine, Nov. 16, 1998, pp. 132, 136,  138. Due to this story, which Meinel and others in his story asserted was nearly totally false, he lost his job at Forbes rather than accede to his editors’ demands. “Forbes’s attorney says he’s made an arrangement with prosecutors in which Penenberg would be asked only to attest that his article is accurate–not about his confidential sources. Penenberg is not only balking at the deal…”
• “Hackers’ Tirade Takes Aim at N.M. Author, by Aaron Baca, Albuquerque Journal, Sept. 17, 1998,  pp. A1, A2.
• “Hacker Group Commandeers The New York Times Web Site,” by Amy Harmon, The New York Times, September 14, 1998, pg. A18; archived online at http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/14/us/hacker-group-commandeers-the-new-york-times-web-site.html
• “Shades of Fagin! A School for Hackers!” SC Magazine, June 1998, pg. 14
• “King of the Hacking Hill,” by Alex Wellen, ZDNet, March 16, 1998.
• “Hack and Ye Shall Learn,” by Mary Elizabeth Williams, Wired magazine, Dec. 1996, pg. 69, archived online at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/scans.html
• “100 Stars of Space,” Ad Astra, the magazine of the National Space Society, July/August 1991, pg. 46
• Interviewed for a two-hour special show on the Strategic Defense Initiative, a co-production of NOVA and Frontline for the Public Broadcasting System, April 22, 1986.
• “Will weapons in space preclude cooperation on civilian projects?” by Robert C. Cowen, The Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 2, 1984, pg. 6.
• “An End to Nuclear Weapons?” by Scott DeGarmo, Science Digest, June 1984.
• “The New Politics of Outer Space,” by Les Cowan, California Living, the magazine of the San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle, Sept. 14, 1980, pp. 4-12.
• “Moon Treaty Angers Would-Be Space Colonists,” by Ray Villard, Star & Sky, Feb. 1980, pp. 10-11.
• “Earthlings at Odds over Moon Treaty,” by Bill Broad, Science 23 November 1979: Vol. 206. no. 4421, pp. 915 – 916 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/citation/206/4421/915
• “Moon Pact Causes U.S. Uproar,” by Helen Dewar, International Herald Tribune, Nov. 3-4, 1979, pg. 3.
• “Tucson group pointing to outer space for inner peace,” by Edward Stiles, Tucson Citizen, Oct. 31, 1979, pg. 1A, pg. 3A.
• “Would-Be Space Colonists Lead Fight Against Moon Treaty,” by Helen Dewar, The Washington Post, Oct. 30, 1979, pg. A8.
• “Settling Space by 2000: Not so wild a dream?” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Aug. 13, 1979, pg. 1.
• “Space City: Asteroid mines could lead to new Tucson in the sky,” by Donna Bockius Kreutz, The Arizona Daily Star, July 8, 1979.
• “Scientists Like to Have Fun, too,” by Gracie Wing Bohne, The Miami Herald, Dec. 1, 1978, pg. 6-E.
• “Space: The Ultimate Suburb,” by Phil Tracy, New West magazine, Nov. 7, 1977, PP. 26-29.
• “Space Odyssy 1995,” by Tony Davis, Ole, a magazine of the Tucson Citizen, Oct. 15, 1977, pp.8-9.
• “Solar-powered space colony is dream home for UA senior,” by Sam Negri, The Arizona Republic, Feb. 16, 1977, pp. B1-B2.
• “Space colony has homey touch,” by Edward Basset, Tucson Daily Citizen, Nov. 20, 1975.
• “Space Colonization No Longer Dream, Proclaims Physicist,” by Jane Kay, The Arizona Daily Star, June 1, 1975.
• “Urban farmers fight Tucson’s chicken laws,” Grass Roots magazine, June 1973.
• “Jim Ferguson Show,” KGUN-TV, Nov. 6, 1972.
• “Only one State Senate race considered close,” Tucson Citizen, Oct. 24, 1972, pg. 12.

Books with information about Meinel (some under her old married last name of Henson):

• Webster’s New World Dictionary of Hackers (Wiley, 2006)
• The Hacking of America, by Bernadette Schell, et al. (Quorum, 2002)
• Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly over the Edge, by Ed Regis (Addison Wesley, 1990)
• Reaching for the High Frontier: The American Pro-Space Movement, 1972-84, by  Michael A. G. Michaud (Praeger, 1986); Chapter 5.
• Enterprise by Jerry Grey (AIAA, 1979)
• Intelligence Agents by Timothy Leary (1979 edition)
• Worlds Beyond: The Everlasting Frontier, Larry Geis and Fabrice Florin, eds.,  (And/Or Press, 1978)
• Colonies in Space, by T.A. Heppenheimer, (Stackpole, 1977).

EDUCATION: M.S., Industrial Engineering, The University of Arizona, 1983. Research in the mathematics of computation (traveling salesman heuristics). B.A., General Studies, The University of Arizona, 1981. Three part major: math, systems engineering and creative writing. “E-Forensics: A Clinic in Systems Security Practices,” The University of Texas at Austin, Jan. 2001. Carnegie Management Course, 1979.

PROFESSIONAL: Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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