Alfred Weaver
Professor of Computer Science
Phone: (434) 982-2201
Fax: (434) 982-2214
Email:
weaver@cs.virginia.edu
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Alfred Weaver
Department of Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Virginia
151 Engineer‘s Way,
P.O. Box 400740
Charlottesville,
Virginia 22904-4740
Areas Of Interest
Computer networks, network protocols, telemedicine, electronic commerce, medical data privacy and security
Biographical Sketch
Alf Weaver received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in 1976. He joined the University of Virginia in 1977 and is now Director of the department's Computer Networks Laboratory, Director of the university's Internet Commerce Group, and founding Director of the state's Internet Technology Innovation Center. He was an ACM National Lecturer, gave keynote addresses at several leading conferences, held the Lucian Carr III endowed chair, and is a Fellow of the IEEE. He has supervised over 120 research projects, advised over 65 graduate students, and co-authored four books, six book chapters, over 140 refereed papers, and a patent.
Research
Weaver and colleagues developed the Xpress Transport Protocol (supporting multicast and knowledge of the multicast group members) for the U.S. Navy, and then turned XTP into a commercial product. He was a founder of the Virginia's Internet Technology Innovation Center, which provided technical and business strategy for e-business, and developed e-commerce software for corporate and government clients. His current research focuses on medical data privacy and security, implemented by using web services to support authentication, authorization, and federation across trust domains. He is also developing delta compression algorithms for diverse environments
Selected Publications
- Enforcing Distributed Data Security via Web Services, Alfred C. Weaver, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), Hong Kong, December 2005.
- A Privacy Preserving Enhanced Trust Building Mechanism for Web Services, Zhengping Wu and Alfred C. Weaver, Third Annual Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust (PST�05), New Brunswick, Canada, October, 2005.
- A Security Architecture for Data Privacy and Security, Alfred C. Weaver, IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA�05), Catania, Sicily, Italy, September 2005.
- Dynamic Trust Establishment with Privacy Protection for Web Services, Zhengping Wu and Alfred C. Weaver, IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Orlando, Florida, July 2005.
- Distributing Internet Services to the Network�s Edge, Alfred C. Weaver and Michael W. Condry, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Volume 50, Number 3, June 2003, pp. 404-411.