Ross Anderson, BORN 1956
Professor of Security Engineering
Ross John Anderson, FRS, FREng was a researcher, author, and industry consultant in security engineering. He was Professor of Security Engineering at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. where he was part of the University's security group. He was educated at the High School of Glasgow. and Trinity College, Cambridge. Anderson worked in avionics and banking before moving back to the University of Cambridge and receiving his PhD. His research interests are in security, cryptology, dependability and technology policy. Many of his writings emphasise the human, social, and political dimension of security. Anderson founded the Foundation for Information Policy Research, a think tank and lobbying group on information-technology policy. He was well-known among Cambridge academics as an outspoken defender of academic freedoms, intellectual property and other matters of university politics. In January 2004, the student newspaper Varsity declared Anderson to be Cambridge University's "most powerful person". Ross Anderson died on March 28th 2024, at the age of 67.
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