Announcements

Center for Information Protection
UC Davis is planning to join the NSF I/UCRC Center for Information Protection. We are looking for companies to join our Industrial Advisory Board.
Find out more here!

Conferences and Workshops

• ISGIG 2009
• ACSAC 25
• PETRA 2010 (due 11/15)
• Oakland 2010 (due 11/18)

My Links

• My Home Page
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• Papers
• Reports and Notes
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• Security in Programming
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• Miscellaneous
• My Family
• About Me (CV and such)

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• City of Davis
• County of Yolo
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Contacting Me

Matt Bishop

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Department of Computer Science University of California, Davis One Shields Ave. Davis, CA 95616-8562 United States of America Office: 2209 Watershed Sciences Telephone: +1 (530) 752-8060 Fax: +1 (530) 752-4767 Email: bishop at cs dot ucdavis dot edu Office Co-ordinates:     Latitude: N 38° 31' 42.7''     Longitude: W 121° 45' 4.3'' Graduate Admissions. Click here for information on being admitted to do graduate work in information assurance or computer security, including a link to the on-line application. 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.