Among notable software designed and/or supervised by Spafford include the freeware Tripwire tool coded by his student Gene Kim (Spafford was later the chief external technical advisor to the Tripwire company during their first few years), and the freeware COPS tool coded by his student Dan Farmer.
Gene Spafford (born 1956), professor of computer science at Purdue University
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Most recently the multidisciplinary method of working has been adopted in the specialist field of computer security by practitioners such as Gene Spafford and Sarah Gordon.