William Robertson

Beyoncé is going on tour. Is Ticketmaster ready?

It “will give Ticketmaster a chance to respond to problems that arise in the initial rollout,” said William Robertson, an associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University, noting that the company will also use technology to weed out bots.

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Researchers add software bugs to reduce the number of… software bugs

Researchers are adding bugs to experimental software code in order to ultimately wind up with programs that have fewer vulnerabilities. The idea is to insert a known quantity of vulnerabilities into code, then see how many of them are discovered by bug-finding tools. By analyzing the reasons bugs escape detection, developers can create more effective […]

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15 Top Cyber Security Professors

Dr. William Robertson Northeastern University An associate professor at Northeastern University, Dr. William Robertson is affiliated both with the College of Computer and Information Science and The College of Engineering. His interests include anomaly detection, program analysis, security of electronic voting, and Web security. He’s had many conference papers published and articles that have been included in […]