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Please read this before mailing me, and this if you want to become my student. Contact information is at the bottom of the page.
I am a tenured faculty member at the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, where I am a
member of the Digital
Technology Group (previously Laboratory for Communication
Engineering) and of the Security
group. Previously I was with the Department of Engineering, where
in 2000 I was appointed to the ARM Lectureship in Ubiquitous Computing
Systems. (In other universities they might
say "associate professor" for this kind of post, but here in Cambridge
the correct term is lecturer.) I am a member of St John's College. Please read this if you want
to become my student.
Before becoming a full-time academic I was a research scientist in
industry. I was made a Toshiba
Fellow and I worked in the research labs of Toshiba, AT&T Laboratories,
Oracle and Olivetti. The last three were actually the same lab, an
exciting centre of excellence and creativity, now sadly closed. You may read more about some
of our interesting research in my book and I have made the relevant section
freely downloadable.
I love Japan, I used to live in Japan and I maintain close
relationships with Japan, particularly with the Toshiba Corporate Research
and Development Center in Kawasaki and with Keio University.
My book
Security for Ubiquitous
Computing (Wiley, 2002; 0-470-84493-0) is about the brave new
world in which all sorts of everyday objects contain embedded
networked microprocessors. Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and all that stuff are
just the beginning, and the security implications of the new scenario
haven't been worked out in depth yet. Sounds interesting? Grab a copy
and you'll like it. All those who read it say very good things about
it. You may obtain it from the usualonlinesuspects
or from your local bookstore. The
book's own page has more details.
In my spare time I am a comics scholar with a particular interest in Disney material. I have coauthored a
couple of books and a few articles on this subject.
I have a strong interest in kendo (Japanese swordsmanship). Since
Michaelmas 2002 I am the leader of the dojo of the
University of Cambridge. I am 3rd dan and a licenced coach (BKA levels 1 and 2).
Pablo Vidales, Javier Baliosian, Joan Serrat, Glenford Mapp, Frank
Stajano, Andy Hopper, "Autonomic System
for Mobility Support in 4G Networks", in IEEE Journal On
Selected Areas In Communications, December 2005.
Francesco Stajano, "Addio, Romano!", in
DDF(R)appet, June 2005, fanzine of the
Danish Donaldist society.
Frank Stajano, "RFID is
X-ray vision",
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Technical Report
645. Revised write-up of keynote talk I gave at the first workshop in
the International
Workshop Series on RFID, Tokyo, Japan, November 2004. A condensed
version, featuring some prudish censorship courtesy of the
CACM editors, appears in the September 2005 issue of Communications
of the ACM.
Pablo Vidales, Glenford Mapp, Frank Stajano, Jon Crowcroft, Carlos
Jesus Bernardos, "A Practical
Approach for 4G Systems: Deployment of Overlay Networks", in
Proceedings of Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the
DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities / TRIDENTCOM 2005. (Best
paper award)
Chris Reed, John Hall, Ross Younger,
Ari Krakauer, Martin Thorpe, Ben Waine, Katie Bebbington, Ciaran
McNulty, Matthew Slyman, Dominic Crowhurst, Matt Cobley, Alfredo
Gregorio, Andrei
Serjantov, Jacob Nevins, Theo Honohan, Ben Mansell, Alastair Beresford, Richard Sharp, David Scott.
Air conditioning as a replacement for opening the windows
Books and articles written in a complicated way in the mistaken belief that this will make readers think that the author is more clever than them (when I read such junk I only think that the author is an idiot who doesn't understand his own stuff well enough to be capable to explain it clearly to me)
Cars, especially traffic jams and parking problems
2002: Frank Stajano and Yutaka Sata, "Personalized reminder service", Japanese patent application P2002-12052 (in Japanese), 2002.
2001: Frank Stajano and Hiroshi Isozaki, "Apparatus for managing software and method of installing software", Japanese patent application P2001-315815 (in Japanese), 2001.
2001: Security
Policies (with Ross Anderson and
Jong-Hyeon Lee; book chapter in
Advances in Computers vol 55, Academic Press, 2001.)
2000: A personal homage to Carl
Barks, the great comics storyteller, creator of Uncle Scrooge and
Gyro Gearloose, who died on 2000-08-25 at age 99.
2000: A set of flash cards to practice the Japanese hiragana and
katakana syllabaries (Frank's do-it-yourself
kana cards). (If you are
interested in this sort of thing then check out the very elegant, and
equally free, Digital Kana
Flashcards created by Shane Hope.)
2000: The Resurrecting
Duckling -- What Next? (presented at,
and in the proceedings of, the 8th International Workshop on Security
protocols, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag,
2000-04-05.)
2000: Il
falsario contro il crittologo: sicurezza per la lotteria
informatizzata ("The Forger vs. the
Cryptologist: Security Issues for the Computerised Lottery", in
Italian. Invited paper presented at, and in the proceedings of, the 40th
conference of the Italian Statistical Society, Florence, Italy,
2000-04-26.)
1999: The Resurrecting Duckling:
Security Issues for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks (with Ross Anderson; presented at, and in the proceedings of,
the 7th International Workshop on Security protocols, Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, Springer-Verlag. A later version appears in the
proceedings of the 3rd AT&T Software Symposium.)
1998: A design for my Cambridge University
business card which several colleagues have
already requested and used for themselves. If you are browsing from
*.cam.ac.uk, I'll let you download my Word
file so you can use it too. It has my photograph, so the recipient
remembers who the hell this came from, and the fingerprints of my PGP keys (I've had PGP fingerprints on my business
cards since 1994, and greasy fingerprints on them since a lot before
that!). I'm pleased with the result, but Word is a big mess, especially
when you have to edit the sideways text. Maybe one day I'll write a program
to generate the postscript directly -- but don't hold your breath.
1998:
HTML pretty-print
1997: Restituire
l'anima rubata (in Notiziario GAF, issue
3, Dec 1997; reprinted, with much better illustrations, in Comic Art 161, April 1998)
1997: Don Rosa e il Rinascimento disneyano (with Leonardo Gori and Alberto Becattini; the first book in the world about the American Disney comics author Don Rosa. In Italian.)
1997: A few self-generating programs that now live in
Eli Biham's collection.
1996-7: a chapter in The Art of Giorgio Cavazzano (edited by Luca Boschi; a great book about the Italian Disney comics author Giorgio Cavazzano. In Italian.)
1994: Writing Tcl Programs in the Medusa environment
1992: Manuale Modem (tells you what
you can do with a modem from a user's perspective, with particular emphasis
on the "community spirit" of bulletin boards. Became the standard
textbook introduction to Fidonet in
Italy and was broadcast by RAI (Italy's state-owned TV broadcasting
company) over their telesoftware channel. In Italian.)
1991: Media Composition and Synchronization Aspects in an Interactive Multimedia
Authoring Environment (with Gianluca Pancaccini; in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Stuttgart, Germany, 1991, published by Elsevier.)
IPC9 aka 9th International
Python Conference (5-8 March 2001, Long Beach, CA, USA)
IPC10 aka 10th International
Python Conference (4-7 February 2002, Alexandria, VA, USA)
IWSAWC 2002
aka The 2nd International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable
Computing (2 July 2002, Vienna, Austria)
Mobicom
2002 aka The Eighth ACM International Conference on Mobile
Computing and Networking (23-28 September 2002, Atlanta, GA, USA)
WiSe aka
Workshop on Wireless Security (28 September 2002, Atlanta, GA, USA)
SPC 2003 aka 1st
International Conference on Security in Pervasive Computing (12-14
March 2003, Boppard, Germany)
PerSec 2004 aka
First IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Computing and
Communication Security, held in conjunction with PerCom 2004 (14-17 March 2004,
Orlando, FL, USA)
ICDCS 2004
aka 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
(23-26 March 2004, Tokyo, Japan)
Uk-Ubinet
2004 aka 2nd UK-UbiNet Workshop, Security, trust, privacy and
theory for ubiquitous computing (5-7th May 2004, Cambridge, UK)
ESAS
2004 aka 1st European Workshop on Security in Ad-Hoc and Sensor
Networks (5-6 August 2004, Heidelberg, Germany)
Mobiquitous 2004 aka
First Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous
Systems: Networking and Services (22-25 August 2004, Boston, MA, USA)
UCS 2004
aka 2nd International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing Systems (8-9
November 2004, Tokyo, Japan)
PerSec 2005 aka 2nd IEEE
International Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Communication
Security, held in conjunction with PerCom 2005 (8-12 March 2005, Hawaii,
USA) (Program co-chair)
SPC 2005 aka 2nd Conference
on Security in Pervasive Computing (6-8 April 2005, Boppard, Germany)
LoCa 2005 aka
International Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness, in
cooperation with Pervasive
2005 (12-13 May 2005, Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Germany)
TSPUC 2005 aka
First International Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for
Ubiquitous Computing (13 June 2005, Taormina, Italy), affiliated with
IEEE WOWMOM 2005
PerSec 2006 aka 3rd IEEE
International Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Communication
Security, held in conjunction with PerCom 2006 (13-17 March 2006,
Pisa, Italy) (Program co-chair)
HPCC-06 aka The Second
International Conference on High Performance Computing and
Communications (13-15 September 2006, Munich, Germany) (Program
vice-chair)
ESAS 2006 aka Third
European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad Hoc and Sensor
Networks (20-21 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany)
UCS 2006 aka 2006
International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing Systems (11-13 October
2006, Seoul, Korea)
ICUCT 2006 aka International
Conference on Ubiquitous Convergence Technology (6-8 December 2006,
Jeju, Korea) (Technical Program co-chair)
PerSec 2007 aka 4th IEEE
International Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Communication
Security, held in conjunction with PerCom 2007 (26 March 2007, New
York, USA) (Program co-chair)
PerCom 2007 aka 5th Annual
IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and
Communications, (26-30 March 2007, New York, USA)
I encourage you to submit papers to those of the events above
for which the submission date is still in the future. The Calls for
Papers are available from the links.
The netpbm man pages (227
pages, 425 kB) in a legible and easily printable format. This is not funny
(sorry) but it's nevertheless damn useful. I was fed up with not being able
to read the man pages from windows and so I did the conversion (groff,
distiller etc) once and for all.
Frank Stajano, Dr. Ing., Ph.D.
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
William Gates Building
15 JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0FD
United Kingdom
Fax: +44 1223 334611
Telephone contact is generally not encouraged (hey, I'm one of the
few remaining people in the civilized world who refuses to own or
carry a mobile phone) but, if you are a friend or if you have a good
reason, with a little homework you can find my number in the
departmental directory. Don't, if you're a salesperson, or I may be
rude to you.
Time zone info: the UK uses the UTC+0 time zone and goes to UTC+1
during the summer (actually from the last Sunday in March to the last
Sunday in October); most other EU countries, instead, are on UTC+1 and
UTC+2 respectively, but the change is synchronised, so the time
difference with Central Europe is now always 1 hour (this used to be
different). Japan is on UTC+9 and, in its wisdom, stays there all year
long.
These days, I get a lot of email. A long time ago I used to reply
to almost every message. I soon stopped doing that, but for many years
I kept on carefully reading every message. In the late 1990s I stopped
doing that too, because of spam: initially it was a big shock for me
to delete stuff without having read it ("what if it was important?"),
but then I got over it. Nowadays I ask the Bayesian filter in Mozilla
(not as good as the wonderful Python-powered Spambayes, but more conveniently
accessible) to throw away messages on my behalf without even showing
them to me. The stuff that gets through I usually read, except if it's
too long or if it contains Microsoft attachments.
DON'T send me Microsoft attachments, which are
notorious virus vehicles; ideally, if you want to be kind, please
don't send me any attachments at all. Unless I already know you have a
good reason for sending it to me, mail with attachments may be
discarded unread, or actually not even downloaded from the server. I
am happiest when people send me plain text or, at most, a pointer to a
pdf.
Even after all this filtering, I still get way too much mail. I
write over 10 replies per workday (often many more), but course I
can't hope to keep up with an influx that is an order of magnitude
larger. As Joachim Posegga once
wrote, "response time tends to be an exponential function of message
length".
If you want to write to me because you want to become my student at
Cambridge, please read this helpful and
instructive page. If you don't (and I will be able to tell from
your message) I might just silently ignore you; or, if you're lucky,
just point you again to this page.
Having said all that, my email address is fms27@cam.ac.uk. No point in
obfuscating it, as it's already on way too many spam lists.
I use and encourage the use of PGP (or its free equivalent GPG, to
which I even once contributed a
minor bug fix). My PGP keys are on the
keyservers. I prefer to receive encrypted mail messages as inline
ascii-armoured text as opposed to attachments.
HTML advice of the day: don't misuse tables for page layout purposes and,
above all, avoid browser-specific crap!
"With HTML 4.0, any Web
application can be vendor independent. There really is no
excuse for tying yourselves or your partners to proprietary
solutions."
--Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web