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In Memoriam: Ross Anderson, 1956-2024

unexpectedly passed away in his sleep on March 28th in his home in Cambridge. He was 67.

In 1996, I was one of the people he brought to the Newton Institute at Cambridge University, for the six-month cryptography residency program he ran (I made a mistake not staying the whole time)—so it was before then as well. His mastery of both the technologies and the underlying policy issues showed a deep command of multiple fields, and a rare capability to both work within them and synthesize around them. He founded the U.K.’s Foundation for Information Policy Research, and wrote most of the papers that the organization submitted to Parliamentary Inquiries on dumb legislative ideas.

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