Browsing by Subject "Naval Postgraduate School"

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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 Jan Raycraft
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2015-11-09) Raycraft, Jan
    Jan Raycraft grew up in northern Minnesota and graduated in 1980 from the University of Minnesota-Duluth with a double degree in biology and chemistry, gaining valuable experience in FORTRAN programming. (She later in 1987 received a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School.) Direct from college she was recruited into an engineering division of the US Navy, serving as engineering duty officer (1981-2001) in Long Beach CA, Sturgeon Bay WI, and Annapolis MD in a variety of ship repair, ship inspection, managerial, and teaching roles. She vividly relates her experience supervising shipyard workers and the strategies she used to win their trust and confidence. Her experience teaching naval cadets in Annapolis affords her to offer comments on men and women naval midshipmen and gender-role expectations in a military setting. She moved from the Navy to Lockheed Martin in 2001 and worked there for 11 years as a program manager. In this setting, she describes elements of Lockheed Martin’s corporate culture, interactions with Navy customers and computer vendors, and her shifting activities as Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) computing became the norm. This material is based on work funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award B2014-07 “Tripling Women’s Participation in Computing (1965-1985).”
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    Oral history interview with Peter J. Denning
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2013-04-10) Denning, Peter J.;
    This interview focuses on Peter Denning’s pioneering early contributions to computer security. This includes discussion of his perspective on CTSS and Multics as a graduate student at MIT, pioneering (with his student Scott Graham) the critical computer security concept of a reference monitor for each information object as a young faculty member at Princeton University, and his continuing contributions to the computer security field in his first years as a faculty member at Purdue University. Because of an extensive, career spanning oral history done with Denning as part of the ACM Oral History series (which includes his contributions as President of ACM, research on operating systems, and principles of computer science), this interview is primarily limited to Denning’s early career when computer security was one of his fundamental research areas. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1116862, “Building an Infrastructure for Computer Security History.”