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Residence
  
United Kingdom

Role
  
Developer

Name
  
Robert Watson

Nationality
  
British


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Born
  
3 May 1977 (age 47) Harrow, London (
1977-05-03
)

Institutions
  
Cambridge Computer LaboratoryUniversity of CambridgeSt John's College, Cambridge

Alma mater
  
Carnegie Mellon UniversityWolfson College, Cambridge

Thesis
  
New approaches to operating system security extensibility (2011)

Known for
  
contributions to FreeBSD, TrustedBSD, OpenBSM

Fields
  

Doctoral advisor
  
Ross J. Anderson

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

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Education

Watson graduated in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University and has attained a PhD from University of Cambridge. As well as Cambridge, he has worked at the National Institutes of Health, Carnegie Mellon University, Trusted Information Systems, Network Associates, McAfee, and SPARTA. He obtained a PhD in computer security from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, supervised by Ross Anderson and sponsored by Google.

Research

Watson's work has been supported by DARPA, Apple Computer, the Navy, and other U.S. government agencies. His main research interests are network security and operating system security. His main open source software contributions include his work in developing the multi-threaded and multi-processor FreeBSD network stack, the TrustedBSD project, and OpenBSM. His writing has been featured in forums such as ACM's Queue Magazine, the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, BSDCon, and a Slashdot interview. He was also a FreeBSD Core Team member from 2000–2012. Watson is coauthor of the standard textbook The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (2nd ed., 2015) by Marshall Kirk McKusick.

References

Robert Watson (computer scientist) Wikipedia


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