Matt Bishop

Department of Computer Science
University of California, Davis
One Shields Ave.
Davis, CA 95616-8562
United States of America

Office: 3059 John D. Kemper Hall
Telephone: +1 (530) 752-8060
Fax: +1 (530) 752-4767
Email: bishop at cs dot ucdavis dot edu

Graduate Admissions. Click here for information on being admitted to do graduate work in information assurance or computer security. Please do not write me asking about your chances of getting in, or if I will admit you. I get too many such letters to answer them, and my answers are the same for everyone: I don’t know, and I do not have the authority to, respectively.

I am a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California at Davis. I am one of the co-directors of the Computer Security Laboratory here.

I do research in computer security. I am especially interested in vulnerabilities analysis, the design of secure systems and software, network security, formal models of access control (especially the Take-Grant Protection Model), and user authentication. I also work on the security of the UNIX operating system.

My book Computer Security: Art and Science was published by Addison-Wesley Professional in December 2002. A somewhat different version, Introduction to Computer Security, was published two years later, again by Addison-Wesley Professional. Check them out and see which you prefer.

There once was an old man from Esser,
Whose knowledge grew lesser and lesser.
It at last grew so small,
He knew nothing at all,
And now he’s a college professor.

Last updated on Friday, April 11, 2008 at 05:37:05AM PDT