Steven L. Worona

Steve Worona is Director of Policy and Networking Programs at EDUCAUSE, and the Founding Director of the EDUCAUSE/Cornell Institute for Computer Policy and Law. He is also the producer and host of “EDUCAUSE Live!”, a Webcast featuring conversations with leaders of information technology in higher education. During his 35-year career at Cornell University, Worona developed CUinfo (the first Campus-Wide Information System) and Dear Uncle Ezra (the first online counseling service). He taught courses in Cornell’s Computer Science Department and Graduate School of Management, founded Cornell’s Computer Policy and Law Program, and managed award-winning projects in electronic publishing, digital libraries, programming languages, and factory automation. He has lectured internationally on a wide range of topics, focusing most recently on the impact of technology on our social and legal system. At EDUCAUSE, he helps coordinate programs in such areas as leading-edge authentication systems, intellectual property, privacy, computer and network security, and management of the .EDU top-level Internet domain. Worona holds degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science from Cornell.