Matthew Butler

A noetic mechanic working on thinking machines

Welcome my personal website. I am currently an adjunct professor of Computer Science at the University of Tulsa. Most of my research focus has been on Systems-level Information Assurance, and Secure Design, with some substantial dabbling into Statistical learning and more classic Artificial Intelligence. I also have some interest in adjacent fields like linguistics, economics, and psychology.

I primarily work with Linux (most experience with Slackware and Arch Linux), Python (including Numpy, Scipy, and Scikit-learn), Emacs, LaTeX and Pandoc. Most of my classwork was done in Java and C++, and some of my research has required C.

I like to typeset and bind custom books, am slowly learning to sing Byzantine chant, and enjoy gardening and hiking.

Projects

• melinoe. My little desktop homelab cluster for learning and experimenting with containerization, virtualization, and DevOps.

• marginalia. The theme I created for this site, based on Tufte CSS. I really enjoy the aesthetics of prayer books and medieval manuscripts and marginalia, and have attempted to replicate some of that for this site.

• ds-1043. Working state of course materials for an introduction to programming using Python.

Publications

Book Chapters

• P. Hawrylak, S. Reed, M. Butler, J. Hale. (2017). "The Access of Things: Spatial Access Control for the Internet of Things". Handbook of Research on Progressive Trends in Wireless Communications and Networking. IGI Global

Conference Papers

• M. Butler. (2017). "An Intrusion Detection System for Heavy-Duty Truck Networks". 12th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security. Dayton, Ohio, USA
• M. Butler, P. Hawrylak, J. Hale. (2011). "Graceful Priviledge Reduction in RFID Security". Seventh Annual Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
• G. Louthan, W. Roberts, M. Butler, J. Hale. (2010). "The Blunderdome: An Offensive Exercise for Building Network, Systems, and Web Security Awareness". ⊕ Basically, we brought CTF to the classroom. This was before CTF really took off, so it's probably pretty dated now. Third Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test. Washington, D.C., USA
• B. Pollet, M. Butler, J. Hale. (2006). "Dynamic Policy Enforcement in a Network Environment". Security Enhanced Linux Symposium. Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Posters

• M. Butler, S. Reed, P. Hawrylak, J. Hale. (2013). "Implementing Graceful RFID Privilege Reduction". Eighth Annual Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA