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LAM, SIMON S

Simon S Lam

Professor Emeritus
Department of Computer Science

Regents Chair in Computer Sciences #1 (Emeritus)

Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Networking Security

lam@cs.utexas.edu


Postal Address
2317 SPEEDWAY
AUSTIN, TX 78712

B.S., Washington State University (1969)
M.S., University of California, Los Angeles (1970)
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (1974)

Research Interests

Operating systems, Distributed systems, Networking Security

Dr. Simon S. Lam received the BSEE degree with Distinction from Washington State University in 1969, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from UCLA in 1970 and 1974, respectively. From 1971 to 1974, he was a Postgraduate Research Engineer at the ARPA Network Measurement Center, UCLA. From 1974 to 1977, he was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Since 1977, he has been on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin and served as Department Chair from 1992 to 1994. His research interests are in computer network protocol design, Internet security services, protocol verification, and performance analysis.

 

Selected Publications

Simon S. Lam and Chen Qian, Geographic Routing in d-dimensional Spaces with Guaranteed Delivery and Low Stretch, Proceedings ACM SIGMETRICS, San Jose, 2011.

Chung Kei Wong, Mohamed Gouda, and Simon S. Lam, Secure Group Communications using Key Graphs, Proceedings ACM SIGCOMM, Vancouver, September 1998.

Thomas Woo, Raghuram Bindignavle, Shaowen Su, and Simon S. Lam, SNP: An Interface for Secure Network Programming, Proceedings USENIX Summer Technical Conference, Boston, June 1994.

Thomas Woo and Simon S. Lam, A Semantic Model for Authentication Protocols, Proceedings IEEE Symposium on Research in Security and Privacy, Oakland, May 1993.

Simon S. Lam and Leonard Kleinrock, Packet-Switching in a Multi-Access Broadcast Channel: Dynamic Control Procedures, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 1975.

Books
Simon S. Lam, Principles of Communication and Networking Protocols, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1984.

  • National Academy of Engineering (elected 2007), For contributions to computer network protocols and network security services.
  • ACM Software System Award (2004), For inventing secure sockets and prototyping the first secure sockets layer, named Secure Network Programming (SNP), as a high-level abstraction suitable for securing Internet applications.
  • ACM SIGCOMM Award (2004) which recognizes lifetime contribution to the field of communication networks.
  • IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award (2004), For outstanding fundamental contributions in network protocols and security services.
  • IEEE William R. Bennett Prize (2001)
  • ACM Fellow (elected 1998)
  • IEEE Fellow (elected 1985)
  • IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize (1975)
  • Teaching Excellence Award (2007), College of Natural Sciences, UT-Austin