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Revision as of 08:39, 4 March 2003 by Yaronf (talk | contribs) (Some material re: contributions)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Roger Needham (1935 - March 2, 2003) was a British computer scientist.
Needham joined University of Cambridge in 1956.
His PhD thesis was on applications of digital computers to problems of classification. He became a highly respected scholar and worked on a variety of key computing projects in security, operating systems and local area networks.
He joined Cambridge's Computer Laboratory in 1962, became head of the lab in 1980 and remained there until his retirement in 1995.
Among his theoretical contributions is the development of the Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic for authentication, generally known as the BAN logic. His Needham-Schroeder security protocol forms the basis of the Kerberos authentication and key exchange system.
Dr. Needham set up Microsoft's UK-based Research Labs in 1996.
In 2001 he received a CBE for his contribution to computing.
He died of cancer.
See also:
- his contemporary and colleague Maurice Wilkes