Oral history interview with Richard A. Kemmerer

Abstract

Computer security pioneer Richard Kemmerer discusses his graduate training (at UCLA), his early and long-term consulting work for System Development Corporation in computer security research and development, and his research and education of graduate students at University of California at Santa Barbara. Among the topics covered are his work on Secure Unix, electronic voting, intrusion detection, and other areas. He also relates perspectives on early conferences (VERkshop, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, and others), the NCSC and TCSEC, and other topics.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1116862, “Building an Infrastructure for Computer Security History.”