Title
Oral history interview with Anita K. Jones
Publisher
Charles Babbage Institute
Abstract
Computer security pioneer Antia K. Jones briefly discusses her undergraduate education at Rice University and work at IBM. The bulk of the interview concentrates on her graduate education at Carnegie Mellon University and her career as a computer scientist. This includes the discussion of capabilities (a mechanism for implementing naming and security), the HYDRA Kernel, the Take-Grant model, various research collaborations, serving as a faculty member at CMU, co-founding and helping to lead Tartan Laboratories, chairing the Computer Science Department at University of Virginia, serving as the Director of DDR&E, gender and computer science, and digital humanities.
Professor William A. Wulf also participates in this interview.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under
Grant No. 1116862, “Building an Infrastructure for Computer Security History.”
Previously Published Citation
Anita K. Jones, OH 476. Oral history interview by Jeffrey R. Yost, 24 June 2015, Charlottesville, Virginia. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Funding information
National Science Foundation Grant No. 1116862, “Building an Infrastructure for Computer Security History.”
Suggested Citation
Jones, Anita K..
(2015).
Oral history interview with Anita K. Jones.
Charles Babbage Institute.
Retrieved from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy,
https://hdl.handle.net/11299/178984.