Paul Q. Judge
Encyclopedia
Paul Q. Judge is an award-winning technologist and speaker. Judge was a technical expert for the Federal Trade Commission
in the 2005 Report to Congress on the Effectiveness of the CAN-SPAM Act. In 2003, he founded the Anti-Spam Research Group in the Internet Research Task Force
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in Atlanta earning a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics in three years. He then matriculated at Georgia Tech
, completing M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science in 2002. Judge then did post doctorate work at Georgia Tech in 2003.
Judge joined the founding team of CipherTrust
in 2000 and served as Chief Technology Officer until the company was acquired in 2006. Judge served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Secure Computing Corp until 2007. Judge founded Purewire
in 2007.
"100 Top innovators under 35" (2003), The Network Journal's 40 Under 40 (2005), Black Enterprise's 50 Most Powerful Players Under 40, Black Engineer of the Year (2006), and InfoWorld's Innovators to Watch in 2006 (2005).
Judge has been awarded six US patent
s and has 19 other US patents pending. These include: No. 7,225,466 Systems and methods for message threat management, No. 7,213,260 Systems and methods for upstream threat pushback, No. 7,124,438 Systems and methods for anomaly detection in patterns of monitored communications, No. 7,096,498 Systems and methods for message threat management, No. 7,089,590 Systems and methods for adaptive message interrogation through multiple queues, and No. 6,941,467 Systems and methods for adaptive message interrogation through multiple queues.
Federal Trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act...
in the 2005 Report to Congress on the Effectiveness of the CAN-SPAM Act. In 2003, he founded the Anti-Spam Research Group in the Internet Research Task Force
Internet Research Task Force
The Internet Research Task Force focuses on longer term research issues related to the Internet while the parallel organization, the Internet Engineering Task Force , focuses on the shorter term issues of engineering and standards making...
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Biography
Judge attended Morehouse CollegeMorehouse College
Morehouse College is a private, all-male, liberal arts, historically black college located in Atlanta, Georgia. Along with Hampden-Sydney College and Wabash College, Morehouse is one of three remaining traditional men's colleges in the United States....
in Atlanta earning a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics in three years. He then matriculated at Georgia Tech
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...
, completing M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science in 2002. Judge then did post doctorate work at Georgia Tech in 2003.
Judge joined the founding team of CipherTrust
Ciphertrust
CipherTrust was an anti-spam email software company based in Alpharetta, GA , although they had offices around the world. Since August 2006 it is part of Secure Computing Corp, which was acquired by McAfee in 2008. The company was co-founded by Jay Chaudhry and Lawrence Hughes...
in 2000 and served as Chief Technology Officer until the company was acquired in 2006. Judge served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Secure Computing Corp until 2007. Judge founded Purewire
Purewire
Purewire, launched in November 2007, provides an in-the-cloud security service for web traffic. Its services block malware and secure the use of the Web. The Purewire management team includes former employees of CipherTrust, which was acquired by Secure Computing and IBM Internet Security Systems...
in 2007.
Awards and patents
He has won several awards, including: InfoWorld Top 25 CTOs (2007), Atlanta Power 30 under 30 (2007), MIT Technology Review TR100TR35
The TR35 is an annual list published by MIT Technology Review magazine, naming the world's top 35 innovators under the age of 35.Some of the most famous winners of the award include Larry Page and Sergey Brin , Linus Torvalds , Jerry Yang , Jonathan Ive , Mark Zuckerberg...
"100 Top innovators under 35" (2003), The Network Journal's 40 Under 40 (2005), Black Enterprise's 50 Most Powerful Players Under 40, Black Engineer of the Year (2006), and InfoWorld's Innovators to Watch in 2006 (2005).
Judge has been awarded six US patent
Patent
A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....
s and has 19 other US patents pending. These include: No. 7,225,466 Systems and methods for message threat management, No. 7,213,260 Systems and methods for upstream threat pushback, No. 7,124,438 Systems and methods for anomaly detection in patterns of monitored communications, No. 7,096,498 Systems and methods for message threat management, No. 7,089,590 Systems and methods for adaptive message interrogation through multiple queues, and No. 6,941,467 Systems and methods for adaptive message interrogation through multiple queues.