Steven M. Bellovin is a
professor of computer science at Columbia
University, where he does research on networks, security, and
especially why the two don't get along. He joined the faculty in
2005 after many years at
Bell Labs
and
AT&T Labs Research, where
he was an
AT&T
Fellow. He received a BA degree from
Columbia
University,
and an MS and PhD in
Computer Science from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While a graduate student, he
helped create
Netnews;
for this, he and the other perpetrators were
given the 1995
Usenix Lifetime Achievement Award
(The Flame).
He is a member
of the
National Academy of Engineering
and is serving on the
Department
of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Advisory
Committee; he has also received the
2007 NIST/NSA National Computer
Systems Security Award.
Bellovin is the co-author of
Firewalls and Internet Security:
Repelling the Wily Hacker,
and holds a number patents on cryptographic
and network protocols. He has served on many
National Research
Council
study committees, including those on information systems
trustworthiness, the privacy implications of authentication
technologies, and cybersecurity research needs; he was also a member
of the information technology subcommittee of an NRC study group
on science versus terrorism. He was a member of the
Internet Architecture Board
from 1996-2002; he was co-director of the
Security Area
of the
IETF
from 2002 through 2004.
More details may be found at
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/informal-bio.html.
Updated
23 Feb 09