Browsing by Subject "Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)"

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    Oral history interview with Butler Lampson
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2014-12-11) Lampson, Butler
    Turing Award winning computer scientist Butler Lampson briefly discusses his education and work in time-sharing with Project Genie, the Cal Time-Sharing System (Cal Computer Center), and the Berkeley Computer Corporation (BCC), as well as his seminal work at Xerox PARC (systems and graphics work to create the office of the future—the ALTO and the basis for the Xerox STAR—the primary achievements that led to his receiving the Turing Award in 1992). The interview, part of an NSF-funded CBI effort to document computer security history, concentrates on Lampson’s many contributions to the computer security research field, and his broader perspectives on various aspects of computer security developments (including the economics of computer security). Lampson talks about his work to build a capability machine, and expresses that despite considerable interest from some research scientists, this is not a fruitful path for computer security. He explores the context to his important note on the confinement problem. He also discusses the context of his access matrix. Finally, he discusses his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Microsoft, including his work at DEC on distributed system security, and Microsoft’s Palladium Assurance stack. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1116862, “Building an Infrastructure for Computer Security History.”
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    Oral history interview with Dorothy E. Denning
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2013-04-11) Denning, Dorothy E.
    Computer security pioneer Dorothy Denning discusses her career including her Lattice Model for Computer Security, research on database security, intrusion detection, and other areas, such as her influential textbooks. The interview also addresses computer security research infrastructure and collaborators at various institutions where she worked including Purdue University, SRI International, Digital Equipment Corporation, Georgetown University, and Naval Postgraduate School. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1116862, “Building an Infrastructure for Computer Security History.”
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    Oral history interview with Steven B. Lipner
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2012-08-15) Lipner, Steven B.
    Steven B. Lipner is a computer security pioneer with more than 40 years of experience as a researcher, development manager, and general manager in IT Security. He helped form and served on the Anderson Panel for the Air Force in the early 1970s (was MITRE’s representative), oversaw path breaking computer security high assurance mathematical model work at MITRE later that decade, was a leader in Digital Equipment Corporation’s (DEC) effort to build an A1 (TCSEC certification) system in the 1980s, and led the creation of Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle in the 2000s. This interview focuses primarily on Lipner’s involvement on the Anderson Panel, his work at MITRE, and his work at DEC. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1116862, “Building an Infrastructure for Computer Security History.”