Professor Clark Thomborson

BS(Hons)/MS (Stanford), PhD (Carnegie-Mellon)

Honorary Academic

In: School of Computer Science » Faculty of Science

Biography

1975 B.S. (honors) Chemistry, Stanford University
1975 M.S., Computer Science / Computer Engineering, Stanford University
1980 Ph.D., Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University
1979-86 Assistant Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley
1983 married Barbara Borske
1983 changed surname from Thompson to Thomborson
1986-94 Professor of CS at U Minnesota-Duluth
1992-3 Visiting Professor of EECS at MIT
1995 Principal Programmer, LaserMaster Corp of Minnesota
1996 emigrated to New Zealand, joined University of Auckland

Research | Current

Obfuscated circuits
Steganographic protocols
Privacy requirements

Areas of expertise

The specification of secure systems, particularly for identity management and privacy protection. Algorithms and applications for software watermarking and obfuscation.

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Thomborson, C., & Jeanmougin, M. (2017). Stegogames. Information Security and Privacy (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), 10343 (Pt. 2), 414-421. Auckland, New Zealand. 10.1007/978-3-319-59870-3_26
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/40586
Thomborson, C. D. (2016). Privacy Patterns. 2016 14th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST 2016), 656-663. Auckland, NZ: IEEE. 10.1109/PST.2016.7906953
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/33429
Tu, Y. C., Tempero, E., & Thomborson, C. (2016). An experiment on the impact of transparency on the effectiveness of requirements documents. Empirical Software Engineering, 21 (3), 1035-1066. 10.1007/s10664-015-9374-8
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/30301
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Ewan Tempero, Yu-Cheng Tu
Kanzaki, Y., Thomborson, C., Monden, A., & Collberg, C. (2015). Pinpointing and hiding surprising fragments in an obfuscated program. Proceedings of the 5th Program Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop, A8.1-A8.9. Los Angeles, United States: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 10.1145/2843859.2843862
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/28169
Jarupunphol, P., & Thomborson, C. (2013). The Dhammic Framework for Understanding the Cause of System Project Failures from Buddhist Insights. Paper presented at 12th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI CC), Fordham Univ, New York, NY. 16 July - 18 July 2013. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2013 12TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE INFORMATICS& COGNITIVE COMPUTING (ICCI CC 2013). (pp. 10).
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/25375
Thomborson, C. (2010). Axiomatic and Behavioural Trust. Paper presented at 3rd International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing, Berlin, GERMANY. 21 June - 23 June 2010. TRUST AND TRUSTWORTHY COMPUTING, PROCEEDINGS. (pp. 15).