C-SPAN an article in The New York Times that looked at how the Internet had been a conduit for many types of cybercrime. Recent work from Spafford has shown how to deceive adversaries and thus make computing systems more secure, drawing on his multi-disciplinary expertise in information security and psychology. Spafford is on the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association and is the former chairperson of the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) US Public Policy Committee. He was a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee from 2003 to 2005 and an advisor to the National Science Foundation (NSF). Spaf is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1999) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020). Selected honors and awards 1996 Awarded charter membership in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) IEEE Computer Society's Golden Core for distinguished service to the Computer Society during its first 50 years 2000 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and National Computer Security Center (NCSC) National Computer Systems Security Award 2001 Named to the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) Hall of Fame 2003 Awarded United States Air Force medal for Meritorious Civilian Service 2007 ACM President's Award 2009 Computing Research Association Distinguished Service Award 2013 Elected to the National Cybersecurity Hall of Fame 2017 Received the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) TC-11 Kristian Beckman Award 2020 IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium Test of Time Award 2022 Honorary Professor of the University of Nottingham. See also The Great Renaming References External links , at Purdue Greplaw interview Part 1: Gene Spafford on security threats, PKI, interoperability, privacy and wireless security Part 2: Gene Spafford on key management, backup and recovery, digital certificate revocation, identity fraud and security trends Practical Unix and Internet Security 1956 births Living people American computer scientists Usenet people Internet pioneers Computer security academics Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellow Members of the IEEE Georgia Tech alumni Purdue University faculty