Labs and Centers

Computer Science Laboratory

Meeting the world's ever-growing needs for computer security, privacy, and reliability through advanced research and development.

people standing in a computer server room

SRI's Computer Science Laboratory is a world leader in the development of entirely new tools and methods for building, assessing, and defending computer systems. The laboratory studies the logical foundation of scalable systems that are beyond the scope of traditional testing or simulation.

Current areas of concentration include cyber security, smart grid technologies, system verification, high-assurance systems, and computational biology.

Focus Areas: 
Computing

News + Events

Peter Neumann
San Jose Mercury News, Mar 12, 2013

Neumann has been working on computers since before Steve Jobs was born. Now the 80-year-old computer scientist is leading an effort to rescue the computer from potentially fatal flaws encoded in its DNA, and build a firewall insurmountable by hackers.