Honorary Degree Ceremony, Friday 9 May 2003:
Embargo to 11.30 am Friday 9 May

Date released 6 May 2003

The Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, the Right Honourable Christopher Patten CH, will confer Honorary Degrees at a ceremony to be held in the University’s King’s Hall, Armstrong Building, at 3.00 pm on Friday, 9 May 2003, as follows:

Doctor of Science (DSc): Professor Fred Schneider, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, New York, USA.

One of the most influential figures in computing research, Fred Schneider is a leading international researcher in computer dependability and security, a status which was confirmed by his chairmanship of the American National Research Council's Committee and Trustworthy Computing, and led to the publication of the book Trust in Cyberspace.

The author of more than 120 scientific publications, his co-authored book, A Logical Approach to Discrete Math, is widely used in teaching and his latest research publication, On Concurrent Programming, is already regarded as essential reading by researchers in the field.

Professor Schneider maintains a number of academic and industrial roles. He has held a full Chair at Cornell University since 1993. He is also Director of the Information Assurance Institute, Professor-at-large at the University of Tromsø, Norway and Chief Scientist at the Griffiss Institute, New York.

His industrial involvement includes advisory boards for Intel and IBM, and he advises NSF and Microsoft.

Professor Schneider was one of the first scientists to be appointed as Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, and he was nominated to receive that organization's Distinguished Service award in 2002.