Clark Thomborson
Professor
Deputy Head of Department (Academic)
I no longer serve as Departmental Visitor
Coordinator, PhD Coordinator, MSc Coordinator, or
Honours Coordinator.
Research Interests
Secure
systems, particularly watermarking
and obfuscation for the protection of intellectual property in
software, trusted computing, and identity management. My inactive/former
areas of interest include software performance
engineering and R&D policy.
Teaching and Advisement
- Software
Security: Mon 3-4, Wed 3-4, Fri 3-4 in Computer Science Seminar
room 303S.279. Tutorials are Wed 4-5, Thu 1-2, Fri 11-12 in Room
303S.187.
- Algorithmics:
Mon 2-3 in Eng3.408, Wed 2-3 in MedChem, Fri 2-3 in Eng3.408.
- Operating
Systems: Mon 9-10, Wed 9-10, Fri 8-9 in Eng1.439.
- Office hours for S2 09: Tuesday 2-3pm and Thursday 2-3pm, in room
303S.593. I'll be unavailable during my office hours on Tuesday 13
October, sorry. Urgent queries should be directed to the
departmental front office 303S.384, phone 3737 599 x85857.
Current Students, Postdocs, and Visitors
Recent and Forthcoming Publications and Lectures
- A Framework for
System Security, by Clark Thomborson,
in Handbook of
Information and Communication Security, eds. P. Stavroulakis and
M. Stamp, Springer, to appear 6 March 2010.
- Limited
Autonomy, by Clark Thomborson, keynote address at
the Eighth
International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing
(DASC-09), Chengdu, China, 12-14 December 2009.
- A security
model for VoIP Steganography, by Zhiwei Yu, Clark Thomborson,
Chaokun Wang, Junning Fu, and Jianmin Wang, to appear in
Proc. of the First International Conference on Multimedia
Information Networking and Security
(MINES 2009, Wuhan,
Hubei, China, 17-20 November 2009).
- A semi-dynamic multiple watermarking scheme for Java
applications, by Changjiang Zhang, Jianmin Wang, Clark Thomborson,
Chaokun Wang, and Christian Collberg, to appear in Proc. of the 9th
ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management
(DRM
2009, Chicago IL, USA, 9 November 2009).
- Sensible Sensors: Privacy and smart
sensor technologies, moderated panel discussion at KPMG Auckland,
6 May 2009.
- Preliminary Security Specification
for New Zealand's igovt System, by Yu-Cheng Tu and Clark
Thomborson, in
Information
Security 2009 (Proc. 7th AISC, Wellington, January 2009), CRPIT
vol. 98, pp. 79-88, 2009. Press
coverage: Researcher
questions government security analysis, by Stephen Bell,
ComputerWorld, 16 Feb 2009.
- Passwords and Perceptions, by
Gilbert Notoatmodjo and Clark Thomborson,
Information
Security 2009 (Proc. 7th AISC, Wellington, January 2009), CRPIT
vol. 98, pp. 71-78, 2009.
- A Model
for New Zealand's Identity Verification Service, by Clark
Thomborson, in Trusted
Computing - Challenges and Applications
(Proc. TRUST 2008, Villach,
Austria, 12 March 2008), LNCS 4968,
2008. Presentation slides.
- The Promise and Peril of
Trusted Computing in Governmental Systems, by Clark Thomborson,
presentation to Educational
Event at TRUST 2008,
Villach, Austria, 11 March 2008. Also presented to the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20
March 2008.
- Could Software
Watermarks Express Both Rules and Assurances?, by Clark
Thomborson, presentation to ReTrust workshop at TRUST 2008, Villach, Austria, 11
March 2008.
- Dynamic
graph-based software fingerprinting, by Christian S.
Collberg, Clark Thomborson, and Gregg M. Townsend, ACM TOPLAS
29(6) 35:1-67, October 2007.
- Obfuscation
techniques for enhancing software security, by Christian Collberg,
Clark Thomborson and Douglas Low, US Patent 6,668,325, assigned to
InterTrust Inc of Sunnyvale CA (USA), filed 9 June 1998, issued 23
December 2003.
- Full
list of publications. Google
Scholar listing.
Recent Professional Service
- Corresponding member to the Jericho Forum for the
University of Auckland.
- University of Auckland Library Committee, February 2008 to January
2010.
- Recent programme
committees: Australasian
Information Security Conference (ACSW-AISC 2010), 18-21 January
2010, Brisbane,
Australia; 9th
ACM DRM Workshop (co-located with ACM CCS 2009), 9 November 2009,
Chicago IL, USA; Second
International Workshop on Remote Entrusting (ReTrust 2009) 30
September - 1 October 2009, Riva del Garda,
Italy; 6th
VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management (SDM'09), 28 August 2009,
Lyon,
France; ACM
Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security
(ASIACCS'09) 10-12 March 2009, Sydney, Australia.
Vita Brevis
- 1975 B.S. (honors) Chemistry, Stanford University
- 1975 M.S., Computer Science / Computer Engineering, Stanford University
- 1980 Ph.D., Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University
- 1979-86 Assistant Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley
- 1983 married Barbara Borske
- 1983 Barbara and I transformed our surnames by "gene-swapping":
Thompson+Borske = Thomborson (but not Thomborsonske, nor Borthomp).
- 1986-94 Professor of CS at U Minnesota-Duluth
- 1992-3 Visiting Professor of EECS at MIT
- 1995 Principal Programmer, LaserMaster Corp of Minnesota
- 1996 emigrated to New Zealand
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Full vita.
Contact Information
- E-mail:
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cthombor@cs.auckland.ac.nz;
PKCS certificate (for verifying signed
email);
FDF certificate (for verifying signed PDF documents).
- Mail:
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Clark Thomborson
Department of Computer Science
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142
New Zealand
- Phone:
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+(64 9) 3737-599 x85753 (office)
+(64 9) 585-1370 (home voice)
+(64 21) 2466-034 (cellphone)
Outside Activities
