Robert Watson (computer scientist)

{{Short description|British computer scientist (born 1977)}}

{{other people||Robert Watson (disambiguation)}}

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{{Infobox scientist

| name = Robert Watson

| image = Robert N Watson March 2008.jpg

| caption = Watson in 2008

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1977|5|3}}

| birth_place = Harrow, London, England

| nationality = British

| field =Computer security{{Cite conference | last1 = Murphy | first1 = S. | last2 = Lewis | first2 = E. | last3 = Puga | first3 = R. | last4 = Watson | first4 = R. | author-link4 = Robert Watson (computer scientist)| last5 = Yee | first5 = R. | doi = 10.1109/OPNARC.2001.916839 | chapter = Strong security for active networks | title = 2001 IEEE Open Architectures and Network Programming Proceedings. OPENARCH 2001 (Cat. No.01EX484) | pages = 63 | year = 2001 | isbn = 0-7803-7064-3 }}
Operating systems{{Cite journal | last1 = Watson | first1 = R. N. M. | author-link1 = Robert Watson (computer scientist)| last2 = Anderson | first2 = J. | author-link2 = Ross J. Anderson| last3 = Laurie | first3 = B. | author-link3 = Ben Laurie| last4 = Kennaway | first4 = K. | title = A taste of Capsicum | doi = 10.1145/2093548.2093572 | journal = Communications of the ACM | volume = 55 | issue = 3 | pages = 97 | year = 2012 | s2cid = 260686 }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Watson | first1 = R. N. M. | author-link = Robert Watson (computer scientist)| title = A decade of OS access-control extensibility | doi = 10.1145/2408776.2408792 | journal = Communications of the ACM | volume = 56 | issue = 2 | pages = 52–63 | year = 2013 | s2cid = 1739724 }}
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Computer architecture{{GoogleScholar|wAO9FfoAAAAJ}}{{Cite book | last1 = Clayton | first1 = R. | last2 = Murdoch | first2 = S. J. | last3 = Watson | first3 = R. N. M. | author-link3 = Robert Watson (computer scientist)| doi = 10.1007/11957454_2 | chapter = Ignoring the Great Firewall of China | title = Privacy Enhancing Technologies | series = Lecture Notes in Computer Science | volume = 4258 | pages = 20 | year = 2006 | isbn = 978-3-540-68790-0 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.140.9889 }}

| work_institution = Cambridge Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
St John's College, Cambridge

| alma_mater = Carnegie Mellon University
Wolfson College, Cambridge

| doctoral_advisor = Ross Anderson

| thesis_title = New approaches to operating system security extensibility

| thesis_year = 2011

| thesis_url = http://ulmss-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=33854

| known_for = contributions to FreeBSD, TrustedBSD, OpenBSM

| website = {{url|http://www.watson.org/~robert}}
{{url|http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnw24}}
{{url|people.freebsd.org/~rwatson}}

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Robert Nicholas Maxwell Watson (born 3 May 1977) is a FreeBSD developer, and founder of the TrustedBSD Project.[http://www.osnews.com/story/572 FreeBSD Week: Interview with Robert Watson]. OS News, 29 January 2002 He is currently employed as a Professor of Systems, Security, and Architecture in the Security Research Group at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/plethora-professors Announcement of Professorshiphttp://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81328490800 Robert Watson's ACM author page{{DBLP|name=Robert N. M. Watson}}{{AcademicSearch|35675647}}