Academic

Gene Spafford

American computer scientist

Life: 1956 – present
Born: 1956
Nationality: United States

Eugene "Gene" H. Spafford, known professionally as Spaf, is an American computer scientist and cybersecurity pioneer who has served as a distinguished professor of computer science at Purdue University since 1987. Specializing in computer and network security, cybercrime investigation, ethics in computing, and technology policy, Spafford has made seminal contributions to the field, including his detailed analysis of the 1988 Morris Internet Worm that informed early understand