Roger Needham Lecture
This prestigious lecture is presented by the winner of the BCS Roger Needham Award.
Who receives the award?
The award was established in memory of Professor Roger Needham (1935-2003) and is made annually for a distinguished research contribution in computer science by a UK based researcher who has completed up to 10 years of post-doctoral research.
(Delayed) 2021 Roger Needham Lecture
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Professor Jade Alglave has been awarded the 2020 Roger Needham Award sponsored by Microsoft Research Cambridge. The award was made in recognition of her fundamental work in one of the more difficult areas of computer science: concurrency.
Date and venue: To be arranged
2019 Roger Needham winner
The winner of the 2019 Roger Needham Award was Professor Cristian Cadar from Imperial College London. The Award was made in recognition of his outstanding work in the field of Software Reliability.
Past lectures
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About Roger Needham
Roger Needham pioneered the technique of protecting passwords using a one-way hash function. Among his theoretical contributions is the development of the Burrows-Abadi-Needham (BAN) logic. The Needham-Schroeder security protocol forms the basis of the Kerberos authentication and key-exchange system, and he also co-designed the TEA and XTEA encryption algorithms.
Professor Needham joined Cambridge's Computer Laboratory (then called the Mathematical Laboratory) in 1962, becoming its head in 1980. He was made a professor in 1981 and remained with the laboratory until his retirement in 1995.
Sponsored by Microsoft Research.
