Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1975
Professor Hollaar's primary interest is in legal issues
regarding computers, particularly the intellectual property protection of
software and information.
As a Fellow with the Committee on the Judiciary, he has advised the United
States Senate on computer-related issues such as encryption, copyright and
patent, and regulation of the internet.
He was one of the drafters of the Utah Digital Signature Act, the first law
in the world to legally recognize digital signatures, and is active in the
implementation of the required infrastructure.
He directed the Utah Retrieval System Architecture (URSA) project, which
developed hardware and software systems to support large information
retrieval systems, including a special-purpose VLSI processor for the
rapid searching of text and one of the first workstation-based client-server
distributed systems for information retrieval.
He was also the University's director of campus networking, and continues to
work in communications networks and distributed systems.
