Rick Crawford

is a Researcher in Computer Security at the University of California, Davis.

Research Interests and Experience

After completing his M.S. Thesis, "Topics in Behavioral Modelling and Event-Based Debugging", Crawford continued to pursue several strands of this research.

When he joined the Computer Security Group at UCD, Crawford applied these concepts in projects to develop tools and techniques for analyzing programs. For one interesting project, he constructed (in Lisp, under Unix) a simulated PC environment that provided automated assistance in dynamically analyzing the behavior of executable code that was suspected of malicious behavior.

Crawford also participated in a project to survey and evaluate algorithms and protocols for mutual authentication.

Currently, Crawford is involved in the design and prototyping of a scalable communications architecture for use in the group's ARPA funded work.

Education

Rick Crawford received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1979. After working several years at Hewlett-Packard's central research labs, he earned a M.S. in Computer Science from UC Davis in 1991.

Professional Activities

Crawford is a member of the ACM and of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR). He continues to publish at UC Davis, where his research interests include the social aspects of information technologies in networked environments.

Crawford works with several public interest organizations, including CPSR, Privacy International, and the Cultural Environment Movement. His public interest work addresses the uses and misuses of information and communication in modern society. Such issues as privacy, surveillance, the right to communicate, and equitable access to information for all citizens have become key factors, as economic and social outcomes increasingly are influenced by technological architectures.

Publications

"Computer-assisted Crises" --- by R. Crawford.
To appear in "Invisible Crises", edited by George Gerbner, Hamid Mowlana, and Herbert I. Schiller (Westview Press, 1995, forthcoming).
"Semantic Issues in the Design of Languages for Debugging" ---
by R. Crawford, R. Olsson, W. Ho, and C. Wee.
Computer Languages, Vol. 21, No. 1 (April 1995), pp. 17-37.
"Automated Assistance for Detecting Malicious Code" ---
by R. Crawford, P. Kerchen, K. Levitt, R. Olsson, and M. Archer.
Proceedings: Sixth International Computer Virus & Security Conference, March 1993.
"Semantic Issues in the Design of Languages for Debugging" ---
by R. Crawford, R. Olsson, W. Ho, and C. Wee.
Proceedings: IEEE Computer Society Fourth International Conference on Computer Languages, April 1992, pp. 252-261.
"A Testbed for Malicious Code Detection: A Synthesis of Static and Dynamic Analysis Techniques" ---
by R. Crawford, R. Lo, J. Crossley, G. Fink, P. Kerchen, W. Ho, K. Levitt, R. Olsson, and M. Archer.
Secure Networks --- Proceedings: Fifth International Computer Virus & Security Conference, March 1992, pp. 225-236.
"Sequential Debugging at a High Level of Abstraction" ---
by R. Olsson, R. Crawford, W. Ho, and C. Wee.
IEEE Software, Vol. 8, No. 3 (May 1991), pp. 27-36.
"A Dataflow Approach to Event-based Debugging" ---
by R. Olsson, R. Crawford, and W. Ho.
SOFTWARE --- Practice and Experience, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Feb. 1991), pp. 209-229.
"Topics in Behavioral Modelling and Event-Based Debugging" ---
by R. Crawford. M.S. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, CSE-90-49, December 1990.
"Dalek: A GNU, Improved Programmable Debugger" ---
by R. Olsson, R. Crawford, and W. Ho.
Proceedings: Summer 1990 USENIX Conference, June 1990, pp. 221-231.

Last updated 8/28/95.