C. James Cook
MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s breadth and depth of technology enable an environment that fosters personal growth and discovery. The chance to investigate, to produce something that makes a difference is what motivates each of us to bring our A-game every day.
C. James Cook is a software engineer subcontractor at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, currently supporting the Secure Resilient Systems and Technology Group. Since joining the Laboratory in 2018, Cook has supported development of fuzzer test environments, malware identification and characterization systems, on-the-fly data protection, and encryption management systems. Applying skills and perspectives gleaned from industry experience, his efforts have supported project developments bordering on finished products, not just proof-of-concept prototypes, advancing the state of the art.
Cook’s current work focuses on satellite communication networks. Today’s environment of unfriendly actors makes resilient and secure communication more important than ever. His current investigations foster this mission through evolving isolated systems to redundant zero-trust networks with modern key management.
Prior to joining the Laboratory, Cook worked in industry for Prime Computer, where he contributed to compiler, database file system, operating system, CPU microcode, and intelligent peripheral controller development. He followed with work at Clariion/EMC spanning I/O protocols, configuration and cache coherency management, and cross-system environment development.
Cook holds a BS degree with high honors in computer science with a minor in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1979). He is a member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon.