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William Roberts Author & Editor

William Confer has been engineering embedded and mobile systems since 1997. He has worked for Samsung Mobile as a managing staff engineer and currently teaches computer science at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. He holds a patent in low-cost character recognition for extremely resource-limited devices and has multiple other patents pending for mobile technologies. William Roberts is a software engineer who is focused on OS-level security and platform enhancements. He is one of the engineers who founded the Samsung KNOX product and an early adopter of SE for Android. He has made contributions to several open source projects, such as SE for Android, the Android Open Source Project, the Linux Kernel, CyanogenMod, and OpenSC. His recent interests have taken him to Smart Card technologies and the virtualization of smart cards. In his spare time, he works with Dr. Confer on the Miniat project (http://www.miniat.org), a virtual, embedded architecture simulator.