Editors
MATT BISHOP
- received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in computer science
from Purdue University, where he specialized in computer security.
He was a research scientist at the Research Institute of Advanced Computer
Science and was on the faculty at Dartmouth College before joining the
Department of Computer Science at the University of California at Davis.
His research areas include computer and network security, especially analysis
of vulnerabilities, building tools to detect vulnerabilities, and ameliorating
or eliminating them. He also teaches software engineering, machine
architecture, operating systems, and (of course) computer security.
He has chaired sessions and presented talks and tutorials at numerous
conferences, and organized and chaired the first two UNIX Security Workshops.
He is a member of the Privacy and Security Research Group, which is
charged by the Internet Activities Board to examine issues relating to
Internet security.
PETER J. DENNING
- is vice provost for continuing professional
education at George Mason University. He served as associate dean
for computing and chair of the Computer Science Department in the
School of Information Technology and Engineering. He is also
director of the Center for the New Engineer, which he founded at
GMU in August 1993. He was formerly the founding director of the
Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science at the NASA Ames
Research Center, was co-founder of CSNET, and was head of the
computer science department at Purdue. He received a PhD from MIT
and BEE from Manhattan College. He was president of the Association
for Computing Machinery 1980-82 and is now chair of the ACM
publications board. He has published three books and 250 articles
on computers, networks, and their operating systems, and is working
on two more books. He holds two honorary degrees, three
professional society fellowships, two best-paper awards, two
distinguished service awards, and the prestigious ACM Karl
Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award.
Developers
This module was developed at the Center for the New Engineer under the supervision of its Associate
Director, Dr. Daniel A. Menascé, by Priscilla McAndrews,
Amit Agrawal, Aruna Telukutla, and Hai L. Le.
2/15/97