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Richard Kuhn

Computer Scientist
NIST

 

Rick Kuhn is a computer scientist in the Computer Security Division at NIST, and is an IEEE Fellow. He has authored three books and more than 150 conference or journal publications on information security, empirical studies of software failure, and software assurance. He co-developed the role based access control model (RBAC) used throughout industry and led the effort that established RBAC as an ANSI standard. Previously he served as Program Manager for the Committee on Applications and Technology of the President's Information Infrastructure Task Force and as manager of the Software Quality Group at NIST. Before joining NIST in 1984, he worked as a software developer with NCR Corporation and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He received an MS in computer science from the University of Maryland College Park, and an MBA from William & Mary.