Principal Scientist
SRI International
- March 26, 2013
- 220 Skaggs Biology Research Building
- 6:30PM reception
- 7:00PM lecture
A Personal History of Layered Trustworthiness
- March 27, 2013
- 102 L WEB
- 3:20 PM refreshments
- 3:40 PM lecture
Clean-Slate Formally Motivated Hardware
and Software
for Highly Trustworthy Systems
Bio
Peter G. Neumann (Neumann@CSL.sri.com) has doctorates from Harvard and Darmstadt. After 10 years at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, in the 1960s, during which he was heavily involved in the Multics development jointly with MIT and Honeywell (from 1965 to 1969), he has been in SRI's Computer Science Lab since September 1971. He is concerned with computer systems and networks, trustworthiness/dependability, high assurance, security, reliability, survivability, safety, and many risks-related issues such as election-system integrity, crypto applications and policies, health care, social implications, and human needs -- especially those including privacy. He led the effort to design the so-called Provably Secure Operating System hardware and software (from 1973 to 1980).
He is currently PI on two DARPA projects, involving clean-slate
trustworthy hosts for the CRASH program with new hardware and new
software, and clean-slate networking and trustworthy servers for the
Mission-oriented Resilient Clouds program. He moderates the ACM
Risks Forum, has been reponsible for CACM's Inside Risks columns
monthly from
1990 to 2007, tri-annually since then. He chairs the ACM Committee
on Computers and Public Policy, and chairs the National Committee for
Voting Integrity (http://www.votingintegrity.org). He created ACM
SIGSOFT's Software Engineering Notes in 1976, was its editor for 19
years, and still contributes the RISKS section six times a year. He
is on the editorial board of IEEE Security and Privacy. He has
participated in four studies for the National Academies of Science:
Multilevel Data Management Security (1982), Computers at Risk (1991),
Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society (1996), and
Improving Cybersecurity for the 21st Century: Rationalizing the
Agenda (2007). His 1995 book, Computer-Related Risks, is still
timely. He is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAS, and is also an
SRI Fellow. He received the National Computer System Security Award
in 2002 and the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award in 2005.
He is a member of the U.S. Government Accountability Office Executive
Council on Information Management and Technology, and the California
Office of Privacy Protection advisory council. In 2012, he was
elected to the newly created National Cybersecurity Hall of Fame as
one of the first set of inductees. He co-founded People For Internet
Responsibility (PFIR, http://www.PFIR.org).
He has taught at
Darmstadt (1959), Stanford (1964), U.C. Berkeley (1970-71), and the University of Maryland (1999).
See his website (http://www.csl.sri.com/neumann) for testimonies for
the U.S. Senate and House and California state Senate and
Legislature, papers, bibliography, further background, etc.