Item Details

Description

The Michael D. Schroeder papers consist of three cartons and a smaller manuscript box of files from Schroeder’s personal and professional papers. The materials include Schroeder’s class teaching notes, personal grade reports and authored papers, including his Master’s thesis and PhD dissertation from MIT. Schroeder gave many presentations at conferences around the world and his notes and/or slides from those talks are in the collection. Also included are Schroeder’s hiring papers and performance reviews from throughout his career, as well as details about Schroder’s patents. Materials that include personal identifying information may have been modified or restricted for privacy reasons.

Biographical/ historical note

Michael D. Schroeder was born in Richland, Washington in 1945. He received his undergraduate degree from Washington State University, with summer jobs at the Hanford Project in Richland on a team building a time-sharing system for a Univac computer. From 1967 to 1972 he received MS, EE, and PhD from MIT, where he focused on computer security and operating systems. He was a member of the team building the Multics time-sharing system. Schroeder was an Assistant Professor in the MIT EECS until 1976 when he relocated to Silicon Valley. There he worked at the Computer Science Laboratory at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) for eight years, and at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Systems Research Center in Palo Alto CA for 14 years. Schroeder was Assistant Director of the Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Lab from its founding in August 2001 until its closure in September of 2014. His work in Silicon Valley focused on switch-based local area networks, distributed computing, email systems, and web-based systems. Schroeder holds numerous patents and is the co-inventor of the Needham–Schroeder protocol, a two-key identity authentication system for computer networks.

Schroeder has been involved with ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) and ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS) since early in his career; he attended every ACM SIGOPS Symposia on Operating Systems Principles from 1969 to 2015. He is a Lifetime Member and Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, and in 2006 he received the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovations Award for technical contributions to the field of computer and communication security that have had lasting impact in furthering or understanding the theory and/or development of commercial systems. In 2008 and 2010 he received the ACM SIGOPS 'Hall of Fame Award' that recognizes the most influential operating systems papers in the peer-reviewed literature at least ten years old. In 2019 he received the IEEE Computer Society Social Technical Committee on Security and Privacy 'Test of Time Award' recognizing flagship papers that have had a lasting impact on the field. He is the world's leading authority on the 19th Century American landscape artist Gilbert Munger and the creator of the Gilbert Munger online catalog (https://gilbertmunger.org).

Level of description

Collection

Date

1903-2008 (Made), 1961-1997 (Bulk)

Extent

4 linear feet: 3 record cartons, 1 half-manuscript box

Subject

Computer Security, DEC, MIT, Xerox PARC

Collection title

Michael D. Schroeder papers

Credit

Gift of Michael Schroeder

Catalogue number

600000842

Lot number

X9309.2020