There are many people I admire in different fields. From business to computer science. Some person I admire demonstrate their talents when they are young. For example, Larry Page and Sergey Brin designed google during their PHD. Some others do not follow the 'orthordox' way.
The person I wanna introduce in this blog is Fred Cohen. In my opinion, he poses both characteristics mentioned above.
During the last two months, I read tons of papers in deception in cyber security. Gradually, I found that most papers in this area have cited Fred's paper. I start to research him and found something I admire.
Although he has published many high quality papers, he does not devote him into academia. On the contrary, he owns his own company helping other companies solve security problems. In my former post I mentioned that I want to devote my findings to help others, not only be presented on the papers. This is easy to say but very hard to apply. But Fred succeeds. Besides business, he also publish books, design games for security trainings and some other interesting things all related to security. I really admire such life style that I can do so many things based on my interest.
The person I wanna introduce in this blog is Fred Cohen. In my opinion, he poses both characteristics mentioned above.
During the last two months, I read tons of papers in deception in cyber security. Gradually, I found that most papers in this area have cited Fred's paper. I start to research him and found something I admire.
Fred Cohen is an American computer scientist and best known as the inventor of computer virus defense techniques.
In 1983, while a student at the University of Southern California's School of Engineering (currently the Viterbi School of Engineering), he wrote a program for a parasitic application that seized control of computer operations, one of the first computer viruses, in Leonard Adleman's class.
One of the few solid theoretical results in the study of computer
viruses is Cohen's 1987 demonstration that there is no algorithm that
can perfectly detect all possible viruses
He has many other works related to computer viruses.
Although he has published many high quality papers, he does not devote him into academia. On the contrary, he owns his own company helping other companies solve security problems. In my former post I mentioned that I want to devote my findings to help others, not only be presented on the papers. This is easy to say but very hard to apply. But Fred succeeds. Besides business, he also publish books, design games for security trainings and some other interesting things all related to security. I really admire such life style that I can do so many things based on my interest.
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