Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY,
USA

Peter Lutz received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1979, while working as a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Shortly thereafter,he joined the faculty of the School of Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology. In his 30 years of service to RIT, Professor Lutz has moved from Computer Science to the Department of Information Technology and then to the Department of Networking, Security and Systems Administration. He served as chair of the Department of Information Technology for four years and was the moving force behind five-degree proposals. Lately, Professor Lutz has begun research in the area of covert communication channels. His interests include covert channels, low level network programming, and the pedagogy used to teach scripting.