Robert Watson (computer scientist)

For other people with the same name, see Robert Watson (disambiguation).

Robert Watson
Watson in 2008
Born (1977-05-03) 3 May 1977 (age 47)
Harrow, London, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materCarnegie Mellon University
Wolfson College, Cambridge
Known forcontributions to FreeBSD, TrustedBSD, OpenBSM
Scientific career
FieldsComputer security[1]
Operating systems[2][3]
Network stacks
Programming languages
Computer architecture[4][5]
InstitutionsCambridge Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
St John's College, Cambridge
ThesisNew approaches to operating system security extensibility (2011)
Doctoral advisorRoss Anderson
Websitewww.watson.org/~robert
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnw24
people.freebsd.org/~rwatson

Robert Nicholas Maxwell Watson (born 3 May 1977) is a FreeBSD developer, and founder of the TrustedBSD Project.[6] He is currently employed as a Professor of Systems, Security, and Architecture in the Security Research Group at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.[7][8][9][10]

  1. ^ Murphy, S.; Lewis, E.; Puga, R.; Watson, R.; Yee, R. (2001). "Strong security for active networks". 2001 IEEE Open Architectures and Network Programming Proceedings. OPENARCH 2001 (Cat. No.01EX484). p. 63. doi:10.1109/OPNARC.2001.916839. ISBN 0-7803-7064-3.
  2. ^ Watson, R. N. M.; Anderson, J.; Laurie, B.; Kennaway, K. (2012). "A taste of Capsicum". Communications of the ACM. 55 (3): 97. doi:10.1145/2093548.2093572. S2CID 260686.
  3. ^ Watson, R. N. M. (2013). "A decade of OS access-control extensibility". Communications of the ACM. 56 (2): 52–63. doi:10.1145/2408776.2408792. S2CID 1739724.
  4. ^ Robert Watson publications indexed by Google Scholar
  5. ^ Clayton, R.; Murdoch, S. J.; Watson, R. N. M. (2006). "Ignoring the Great Firewall of China". Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 4258. p. 20. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.140.9889. doi:10.1007/11957454_2. ISBN 978-3-540-68790-0.
  6. ^ FreeBSD Week: Interview with Robert Watson. OS News, 29 January 2002
  7. ^ https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/plethora-professors Announcement of Professorship
  8. ^ http://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81328490800 Robert Watson's ACM author page
  9. ^ Robert N. M. Watson at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  10. ^ Robert Watson publications indexed by Microsoft Academic