Dr. Albert Carlson began his hacking career soon after he began taking programming courses in High School in Chicago in 1975. Upon completion of his BSCompEng degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1981, he joined the US Army as a Military Intelligence Officer specializing in Electronic Warfare and Cryptography. Retiring due to injury, he then began a 25 year career in engineering that included work in consumer, military, and designing utility substation security systems.

Dr. Carlson returned to school at the University of Idaho in 2002. There he completed his Master’s degree and PhD, both in Computer Science and specializing in Advance Set Theory and Cryptography. His dissertation, accepted in June of 2012, had as its’ subject: applying Set Theoretic Estimation to decryption.

In 2013 Dr. Carlson joined the faculty of Fontbonne University on the staff of the Math and Computer Science department. His research team studies the use of patterns in natural language and how they relate to set and information based attacks on ciphers. Dr. Carlson’s research interests include: cryptography, set theoretic estimation, natural language, patterns in language, physical security, critical infrastructure protection, and hardware security.