Bill Buchanan is a Professor in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University. He currently leads the Centre for Distributed Computing and Security, and works in the areas of security, e-Crime, intrusion detection systems, digital forensics, e-Health, mobile computing, agent-based systems, and simulation. Bill has one of the most extensive academic sites in the World, and is involved in many areas of novel teaching in computing, including the widely-used network simulation package NetworkSims.com. He has published over 25 academic books, and over 80 academic research papers, along with awards for excellence in knowledge transfer. Presently he is working with a range of industrial/domain partners, including with the Scottish Police, health care professionals and the FSA. A few quick links are:
New: Teaching Pack for Security and Forensic Computing (2008): [download]
New: Teaching Pack for Wireless LANs (2008): [download]
New: Previous undergraduate and postgraduate
projects: [projects]
New: PhD studentship in collaboration with the FSA:
[studentship] New: BEng in Security and Digital Forensics:
[BEng] New: 1st Prize in Real Time Award: [Page]
New: Centre for Distributed Computing and
Security: [Web
- External Site] New: I've been adding a few of my lectures:
[A few lectures] New: Take Bill's Xmas test: [Here]
New: Security Tips (HMAC, public-key, etc):
[Here]
New: .NET 3.0 lectures Encryption [Click
here]. Authentication [Click
here]. To run these you need the .NET 3.0
framework installed [Click
here for install]
There are several modules contained within this site, that
support programmes running in the UK and Malaysia. The main aim
of WWW pages for modules is to provide a central source so that
every student who studies them receive the same experience. CNDS
(Computer Networks and Distributed Systems) has the most developed
page, and will be further enhanced over the next few months. The
NOS (Network Operating Systems module) covers networking infrastructure
(routers, operating systems and network operating systems). Both
modules will run again in September 2004.
Well, why is research so important? Well it's important as
its main objectives is to look to the future. This isn't quite
one year or two, but it should look to five or ten years.
Thus it is key to investigate new techniques which might not
seem relevant at the present, but might have some potential
for the development of new systems. The key to research is
to improve a key element of a current system, using a novel
technique.
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