Simon S. Lam
Simon S. Lam is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He retired in 2018 from The University of Texas at Austin as Professor Emeritus and Regents' Chair Emeritus in Computer Science #1. He made seminal and important contributions to transport layer security, packet network verification, as well as network protocol design, verification, and performance analysis.Simon Lam pioneered security for Internet applications - for example, one result of his work that is visible to most users as the "s" in https, signifying a secure connection. He invented secure sockets in 1991. In 1993, he invented the Secure Network Programming (SNP) application programming interface (API) which explored the approach of having a secure transport layer API closely resembling Berkeley sockets, to facilitate retrofitting pre-existing network applications with security measures. This work was done when WWW was still in its infancy. SNP was published and presented on June 8, 1994 at the USENIX Summer Technical Conference. Subsequent secure sockets layers (SSL and TLS) re-implemented several years later using the architecture and key ideas first presented in SNP, enabled secure e-commerce on WWW (e.g., banking, shopping). TLS is also widely used to secure email and many other Internet applications.
For this contribution, Professor Lam and three graduate students in his research project won the 2004 ACM Software System Award. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering in 2007. He was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2023. Provided by Wikipedia
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5by Ozlem Altay, Elyas Mohammadi, Simon Lam, Hasan Turkez, Jan Boren, Jens Nielsen, Mathias Uhlen, Adil MardinogluGet full text
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7by Huibi Cao, Jing Wu, Simon Lam, Rongqi Duan, Catherine Newnham, Robert S Molday, John J Graziotto, Eric A Pierce, Jim HuGet full text
Published 2011-01-01
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9by Rachelle Ashcroft, Catherine Donnelly, Maya Dancey, Sandeep Gill, Simon Lam, Toula Kourgiantakis, Keith Adamson, David Verrilli, Lisa Dolovich, Anne Kirvan, Kavita Mehta, Deepy Sur, Judith Belle BrownGet full text
Published 2021-07-01
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10by Pak Cheung Ng, Kathy Yuen Yee Chan, Kam Tong Leung, Yuk Him Tam, Terence Ping Yuen Ma, Hugh Simon Lam, Hon Ming Cheung, Kim Hung Lee, Ka Fai To, Karen LiGet full text
Published 2015-01-01
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11by Kathy Yuen Yee Chan, Fiona Wan Lun Leung, Hugh Simon Lam, Yuk Him Tam, Ka Fai To, Hon Ming Cheung, Kam Tong Leung, Terence Chuen Wai Poon, Kim Hung Lee, Karen Li, Tai Fai Fok, Pak Cheung NgGet full text
Published 2012-01-01
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12by Simon Lam, Ruchi Singh, Jonathan R. Dillman, Andrew T. Trout, Suraj D. Serai, Divya Sharma, Rachel Sheridan, Weizhe Su, Lin Fei, Rebekah Karns, Marija M. Haramija, Ged Ridgway, Marc Goldfinger, James E. Squires, Lee A. Denson, Jeffery S. Hyams, Alexander G. MiethkeGet full text
Published 2020-11-01
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