Robert H. (Bob) Sloan
Professor
Ph.D., S.M. Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S. Mathematics, Yale University
(Department Head, UIC Computer Science, 2007-August 15, 2025)
What's Important to Me
- Ed Carter, Richard Warner, and I have published the casebook (US law school textbook) Basic Cybersecurity Law for the Business Environment: Cases and Commentary, Aspen Publishing, 2025.
- UIC’s beautiful new computer science building (link is to July 2025 Chicago Sun Times story from the ribbon cutting).
- Break Through Tech Chicago. I severed as academic lead and grant PI during its 5.5-year life, January 2020 to June 2025.
- I working on two continuation projects related to Break Through Tech Chicago, Chicago Tech Circle, and another still starting.
- The Privacy Fix: How To Preserve Privacy in the Onslaught of Surveillance, Cambridge University Press, 2021, coauthored by Richard Warner and me.
- My 2019 book with Richard Warner: Why Don’t We Defend Better?: Data Breaches, Risk Management, and Public Policy.
- And our earlier book from 2013: Unauthorized Access: The Crisis in Online Privacy and Security, CRC Press.
- You should study Computer Science, and I’m writing about it. Download and read “Why Computer Science?” (in a collection, written just before enrollments went from high to extraordinarily high).
Download curriculum vitae (2021 edition)