Robert Nicholas Maxwell Watson is a FreeBSD developer, and founder of the TrustedBSD Project.
Education
Watson graduated in computer science from and has attained a Doctor of Philosophy 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 Doctor of Philosophy in computer security from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, supervised by Ross Anderson and sponsored by Google.
Career
He is currently employed as a University Lecturer in Systems, Security, and Architecture in the Security Group at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Watson"s work has been supported by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Apple Computer, the Navy, and other United States. government agencies. His main research interests are network security and operating system security.
His main open source software contributions include his work in developing the multi-threaded and multi-processor FreeBSD network stack, the TrustedBSD project, and OpenBSM. His writing has been featured in forums such as Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)"s Queue Magazine, the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, BSDCon, and a Slashdot interview.
He was also a FreeBSD Core Team member from 2000–2012. Watson is coauthor of the standard textbook The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (2nd ed, 2015) by Marshall Kirk McKusick.