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 (S1 2011)
- CompSci
230: Software
Design and Construction, lecturing in weeks 4-7. Tu 5-6 in
260.073 (OGGB4), We 10-11 in LibB10, Fr 10-11 in LibB10.
- SoftEng 450: Software Development Methodologies, lecturing in
weeks 7-12. Mo 12-1 in OCH LH1, We 12-1 in Arch LR6, Th 4-5 in Geol
1060 (in the Chemistry Building). Further details available to
registered students
via CECIL.
- Office hours for S1 11: Tuesday 2-3pm and Thursday 2-3pm, in room
303S.593. Cancelled for 28 April, sorry. Urgent queries should be
directed to the departmental front office 303S.384, phone 3737 599
x85857.
- Note: Software
Security will not be offered in 2011. I will be on sabbatical leave
from July 2011 through June 2012.
Current Students, Postdocs, and Visitors
Recent and Forthcoming Publications and Lectures
- Illusions and Perceptions of Transparency in Software
Engineering, by Yu-Cheng Tu, Clark Thomborson, Ewan Tempero,
to appear in The 18th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
(APSEC 2011), 5-8 December
2011, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
- Multimedia
Applications and Security in MapReduce: Opportunities and
Challenges, by Zhiwei Yu, Chaokun Wang, Clark Thomborson,
Jianmin Wang, Shiguo Lian, and Athanasios Vasilikos, to appear
in Concurrency
and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley, 2011.
- Novel
Watermarking Method for Software Protection in the Cloud, by
Zhiwei Yu, Chaokun Wang, Clark Thomborson, Jianmin Wang, Shiguo
Lian, and Athanasios Vasilikos, to appear
in Software:
Practice and Experience, Wiley, 2011.
- Axiomatic
and Behavioural Trust, by Clark Thomborson, in
Trust and
Trustworthy Computing
(Trust 2010, 21-23 June 2010,
Berlin, Germany), LNCS 6101, Springer, 2010.
- A
Framework for System Security, by Clark Thomborson,
in Handbook of
Information and Communication Security, eds. P. Stavroulakis
and M. Stamp, Springer, 6 March
2010. Word cloud,
produced by Wordle.
- 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), pp. 35-40.
- A
semi-dynamic multiple watermarking scheme for Java applications,
by Changjiang Zhang, Jianmin Wang, Clark Thomborson, Chaokun Wang, and
Christian Collberg, in Proc. of the 9th ACM Workshop on Digital
Rights Management
(DRM
2009, Chicago IL, USA, 9 November 2009), pp. 59-72.
- 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
- Primary Representative to
the Jericho Forum
for the University of Auckland, since 2005.
- University of Auckland Library Committee, February 2008 to January
2012.
- Recent programme committees:
International Conference
on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM
2012), 26-29 August 2012, Istanbul;
Australasian
Information Security Conference (ACSW-AISC 2012), 30 January - 3
February 2012, Melbourne;
8th
VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management (SDM 2011), 2 September
2011, Seattle;
IEEE Intelligence and Security
Informatics (ISI 2011) , 10-12 July 2011, Beijing;
The IEEE 25th
International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and
Applications (AINA- 2011), 22-25 March 2011, Singapore;
Australasian Information
Security Conference (ACSW-AISC 2011), 17-20 January 2011,
Perth;
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
-
Full vita.
Contact Information
- E-mail:
-
cthombor@cs.auckland.ac.nz;
PKCS certificate (for verifying signed
email);
FDF certificate (for verifying signed PDF documents).
- Mail:
-
Clark Thomborson
Department of Computer Science
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142
New Zealand
- Phone:
-
+(64 9) 3737-599 x85753 (office)
+(64 9) 585-1370 (home voice)
+(64 21) 2466-034 (cellphone)
Outside Activities
