A Historical Account of My Early Research Interests

Adler's interpretation of early recollections: historical account.

Interpretation of early recollections has become the outstanding, most characteristic, and most useful method in Adlerian psychology. Adler considered "the significance of early recollections one of the most important discoveries of Individual Psychology" (11, p. 121). Together with an analysis of the individual's family constellation, primarily elaborated by Dreikurs (20), it is today regarded...

Geometry and Topology of Point-cloud Data Sets: a Statement of My Research Interests

“It’s a circle,” is a common reply, or “It’s a bunch of dots on a circle.” I press on: “How do you know it’s a circle?” Since it seems obvious that the points do lie on a circle, at least in the context of a cocktail party conversation, the usual response is a blank stare; and that is generally that. In this research statement I hope to explain (a) why this is an interesting question; and (b) s...

Early Career Award (My Research Program)

Research Interests Research Projects

2005–present HiStar: a secure operating system [2]. Led the HiStar project on designing and developing a new operating system that allows applications to minimize the amount of trusted code. HiStar allows applications to specify precise data security policies by specifying how different information can flow through the system. As a result, small amounts of trusted code can reason about the secu...

Research Interests Research Experience

2007– W5, or A World Wide Web Without Walls. Conceived of and now prototyping W5, a new architecture for the web. The Facebooks and OpenSocials of the world represent new architectures for application development. W5 argues that they insufficiently protect users and unnecessarily encumber application developers. W5 proposes an alternative architecture, under which users retain control of their ...