Professor Simon Lam and UTCS alumni share the 2004 ACM
Software System Award
Secure Network Programming, a system designed and implemented in 1993 by
Professor Simon Lam and three former graduate students in the UTCS Networking
Research Lab, won the 2004 Software System Award, given annually by the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
The 2004 ACM Software System
Award recipients consist of Professor Lam and the following UTCS alumni:
Thomas Woo, who received his Ph.D. degree from UTCS in 1994, is a Director
in the Networking Research Laboratory at Bell Labs where he heads both the
Mobile Networking and Internet Management Research
Departments.
Raghuram Bindignavle, who received his MA degree from UTCS
in 1994, is in India working on Linux-based and wireless technologies that
will be of use to rural India.
Shaowen Su, who received his MS degree
from UTCS in 1994, is Managing Director of Zero2ipo Ltd, a venture capital
firm in China.
Previous winners of the Software System Award include
Unix, TCP/IP, World-Wide Web, and Java. For a complete list, please visit the
ACM Software System Award website.
The 2004 award
citation reads:
"For inventing secure sockets and prototyping the first secure sockets
layer (named SNP - Secure Network Programming) as a high-level abstraction
suitable for securing Internet applications."
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