Robert Watson

Robert Nicholas Maxwell Watson (born 3 May 1977) is a FreeBSD developer, and founder of the TrustedBSD project. He is currently employed as a professor of systems, security, and architecture in the security research group at the University of Cambridge computer laboratory.

Education Watson graduated in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University and has attained a PhD from University of Cambridge. As well as Cambridge, he has worked at the National Institutes of Health, Carnegie Mellon University, Trusted Information Systems, Network Associates, McAfee, and SPARTA. He obtained a PhD in computer security from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, supervised by Ross Anderson and sponsored by Google. the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, BSDCon, and a Slashdot interview. He was also a FreeBSD Core Team member from 2000 to 2012. Watson is coauthor of the standard textbook The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (2nd ed., 2015) by Marshall Kirk McKusick.