Group Manager for Security Technology Group
Electronics Engineer
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Computer Security Division 
Phone:  301-975-2914
Fax: 301-948-1233
E-mail address

Projects:

Professional Publications:

Journal and Conference Papers

• Burr, William E. and W. Timothy Polk, A Federal PKI With Multiple Digital Signature Algorithms, PKCS Conference, Toronto, April 20 -22, 1998
• Burr, William E., Noel A. Nazario and W. Timothy Polk, A Proposed Federal PKI Using X.509 V3 Certificates , National Information Systems Security Conference, October 22-25, 1996: Word 6.0 Format, Postscript Format.
• Burr, William E., S. Wakid, X. Qian, and D. Vaman, "A Comparison of FDDI Asynchronous Mode and DQDB Queue Arbitrated Mode Data Transmission for Metropolitan Area Networks," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 42, No. 4, April 1994, pp. 1758-1768.
• Burr, William E. and D. Branstad, "Security of the Integrated Services Digital Network," Handbook of Information Security, Zella G. Ruthberg and Harold F. Typton editors, Auerbach, 1993, pp. 627-651.
• Branstad, Dennis K. and W. Burr, "Security of OSI-Based Networks," Handbook of Information Security, Zella G. Ruthberg and Harold F. Typton editors, Auerbach, 1993, pp. 617-626.
• Burr, William E., "The FDDI Optical Data Link," IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 24, No. 5, May 1986, pp. 8-23, reprinted in Local Network Technology Tutorial, Third Edition, editor William Stallings, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1988, pp.194-199.
• Burr, William E. and Liu Zuqiu, "An Overview of FDDI," Proceedings The Sixth European Fibre Optics Communications and Local Area Network Exposition (EFOC/LAN-88), June 29-July 1, 1988, Amsterdam, Information Gatekeepers, Inc., Boston, pp. 287-294.
• Zuqiu, Liu and William E. Burr, "Conformance Verification of FDDI Stations," Fiber and Integrated Optics, Vol. 7, pp. 181-195.
• Burr, William E., "An Overview of the Proposed American National Standard for Local Distributed Data Interfaces," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 23, August 1983, pp 554-561, reprinted in Local Network Technology Tutorial, Second Edition, editor William Stallings, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1985, pp. 163-170.
• Burr, William E., "Proposed Standards for Local Distributed Data Interfaces," Data Communications Management, Auerbach Publishers, Inc., 1984.
• Burr, William E., "A Fault-Tolerant Hierarchical Broadcast Network," Proceedings, Computer Networking Symposium, December 11, 1984, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 11-17.
• Burr, William E. and Robert J. Carpenter, "Wideband Local Nets Set to Enter the Computer Arena," Electronics, Vol. 57 No. 4, May 3, 1984, pp. 145-150.
• Burr, William E. and Floyd E. Ross, "The Fiber Distributed Data Interface: A Proposed 100 Mbit/s Fiber Optic Token Ring," Proceedings Eight International Fiber Optics Communications and Local Area Networks Exposition (FOC/LAN-84), September 19-21, 1984, Los Vegas, Information Gatekeepers, Inc., Boston, pp. 254-257.
• Burr, William E., Alice C. Parker, Dennis R. Allison, A. Brinton Cooper, and Charles B. Silio, Jr., "A Bus System for the Military Computer Family," Computer, Vol. 12 No. 4, April 1979, pp. 11-23.
• Fuller, Samuel H., Paul Shaman, David Lamp and William E. Burr, "Evaluation of Computer Architectures via Test Programs," AFIPS Conference Proceedings, Vol 46, 1977 National Computer Conference, pp. 147-160.
• Fuller, Samuel H., Harold S. Stone and William E. Burr, "Initial Selection and Screening of the CFA Candidate Computer Architectures," AFIPS Conference Proceedings, Vol 46, 1977 National Computer Conference, pp. 139-146.
• Fuller, Samuel H. and William E, Burr, "Measurement and Evaluation of Alternative Computer Architectures," Computer, Vol. 10, No. 10, October 1977, pp. 24-35.
• Burr, William E., Aaron H. Coleman and William R. Smith, "Overview of the Military Computer Family Architecture Selection," AFIPS Conference Proceedings, Vol 46, 1977 National Computer Conference, pp. 131-137.
• Burr, William E. and William R. Smith, "Comparing Architectures," Datamation, Vol. 23 No. 2, February 1977, pp. 48-52.
• Burr, William E. and Robert Gordon, "Selecting a Military Computer Architecture," Computer, Vol. 10, No. 10, October 1977, pp. 16-23.


Patents

• Burr, William E., "Fault-Tolerant Hierarchical Network," United States Patent # 4,701,756, Oct. 20, 1987.
  

Standards Edited

• Project Editor for ISO 9316:1989(E), Information processing systems - Small computer system interface (SCSI), International Organization for Standardization, Geneva.
• Technical Editor for ANSI X3.91(M)-1982, Storage Module Interfaces, American National Standards Institute (ANSI), New York, 1983.
  
  

Technical Reports

• Burr, William E., Planning for the Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), NIST Special Publication 500-212, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1993.
• Burr, William E., Security in ISDN, NIST Special Publication 500-189, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1991.
• Burr, William E., Architectures for Future Multigigabit Lightwave Networks, NISTIR 90-4240, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1990.
• Zuqiu Liu and William E. Burr, A Conformance Test For FDDI Medium Access Control (MAC), NISTIR 90-4267, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1990.
• Burr, William E., Aaron H. Coleman and William R. Smith, Summary of the Final Report of the Army/Navy Computer Family Architecture Selection Committee, ECOM-4525, Research and Development Technical Report, September 1977.
• Burr, William E., Samuel H. Fuller and Harold Stone, Computer Family Architecture Selection committee - Final Report, Vol II, Selection of Candidate Architectures and Initial Screening, ECOM-4527, Research and Development Technical Report, September 1977.
• Burr, William E., Aaron H. Coleman and William R. Smith, Computer Family Architecture Selection Committee - Final Report, Volume I, Introduction, ECOM-4526, Research and Development Technical Report, September 1977.
• Burr, William E. Samuel H. Fuller, Paul S. Shaman and david A. Lamb, Computer Family Architecture selection Committee - Final Report, volume III - Evaluation of Computer Architecture via Test Programs, ECOM-4528, Research and Development Technical Report, September 1977.


Federal PKI Technical Working Group Documents

Burr, William E., Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Technical Specifications (Version 2): Part C - Concept of Operations, Sept. 4, 1998.

Interests: 

• Public Key Cryptography
• Storage Systems
• Computer I/O Interfaces
• LAN Medium Access Protocols
• Computer Instruction-Set Architecture