Dorothy E. Denning

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Dorothy E. Denning

Dorothy Elizabeth Robling Denning , née Robling, (born August 12, 1945 in Grand Rapids , Michigan ) is an American computer scientist , computer security expert and cryptologist .

Live and act

Denning studied at the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in 1967 and a master's degree in 1969 and received her doctorate in computer science (Secure Information Flow in Computer Systems) at Purdue University in 1975 with Herbert Schwetman (Secure Information Flow in Computer Systems) from Purdue University. From 1983 she was with SRI International and from 1987 to 1991 with the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). In 1991 she became a professor at Georgetown University and then at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey.

She published about security of various encryption methods, various also social aspects of computer security, hackers, cyber war, cyber crime and cyber terrorism. Denning testified several times as an expert before the congress.

In 1974 she married the computer scientist Peter J. Denning .

Awards

She received the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award, the National Computer Systems Security Award and the 2004 Harold F. Tipton Award. In 1995 she became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery . From 1983 to 1986 she was President of the International Association of Cryptological Research.

Fonts

  • Cryptography and Data Security. Addison-Wesley 1982
  • Concerning Hackers Who Break into Computer Systems. presented at the 13th National Computer Security Conference, Washington, DC, Digital Equipment Systems Research Center 1990.
  • with Herbert S. Lin (Editor): Rights and responsibilities of participants in networked communities. National Academies Press. 1994
  • with Peter J. Denning (editor): Internet Besieged: Countering Cyberspace Scofflaws, ACM Press, Addison-Wesley, 1997
  • Information Warfare and Security. Addison-Wesley 1998
  • with Peter J. Denning: Data Security, Computing Surveys, Volume 11, 1979, pp. 227-249.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Dorothy E. Denning in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Denning, Dorothy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Denning, Dorothy Elizabeth Robling (full name); Robling, Dorothy Elizabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Grand Rapids, Michigan