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June 2023: Publicized by INFER, as seen on the LinkedIn news feed:
Don't get dscouraged by becoming emotionally involved.

May 20, 2020.Webinar: Mirror Mirror on the Wall: What Country Will Rule them All?:(see below)

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, what country will rule them all?

IEEE Spectrum: A Powerful Idea

Verbosity: Hack 101

Hack 101

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March 4, 2024 -- April 22, 2024 Student, AI Alignment Course, with the objective of comparing with the structure and content of the ongoing Existential Risks Persuasion Tournament in which she is participating as a peer given the latter's non-hierarchical structure.

2022 -- present. Pro Forecaster with INFER (INtegrated Forecasting and Estimates of Risk), a project of RAND, 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 third highest ranked forecaster, 2023 and the sixth highest ranked forecaster, 2022.

2022 -- present Participant in the ongoing Existential Risks Persuasion Tournament. See the interim report here. Some aspects not in the interim report, here --->

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 forecasts,

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?" Institute for Strategic and Innovative Technologies, 2016-- +Jan. 2024

2019 Served on the fourth 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..."

Served on the Johns Hopkins APL T&E team with IARPA's CREATE program.

Dec. 2016 -- 2022 Participant in multiple research projects on crowdsourced detection of replicability of research papers, beginning with the experiment that led to "Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015."

Consultant to 8 RIVERS 2009 – present

Santa Fe Institute, Adaptive and Resilient Computing Workshops 2005, 2006

1998 –2006 Process-based security distribution of Linux: Systems Advisory Group Enterprises, Inc. (SAGE, Inc.) Product tester/advisor for BRICKServer II Linux-based operating system. Discovered security flaws which have never been publicly disclosed (“0-day” exploits). 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." 1998 – 2006.

Barrage long range guided artillery project: SAIC

Off-line Intrusion Detection Program: a Lincoln Lab project for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Advanced composites for racing cars: VP Racing Fuels

Consulting on many high technology ventures: Center for the New West.

Double Eagle particle beam lunar science probe study: SAIC

DARPA Tactical Technology Office SETA on hypervelocity impact and electromagnetic propulsion

Meinel also has authored or co-authored technical books on computers, aerospace and other high technology topics, numerous research papers in refereed journals, and over 200 magazine articles. See her long resume for examples --->

EDUCATION: M.S., Industrial Engineering, The University of Arizona, 1983. Research in the mathematics of computation (traveling salesman heuristics). This topic is directly relevant to cryptography. B.A., General Studies, The University of Arizona, 1981. Three part major: math, systems engineering and creative writing.

PROFESSIONAL: Meinel is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is a co-founder and for several years was the president of the L-5 Society, an organization now known as the National Space Society.

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