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American computer programmer
Tom Van Vleck is an American computer software engineer.
Life and work
Van Vleck graduated from
MIT in 1965 with a BS in Mathematics. He worked on
CTSS at
MIT , and co-authored
its first email program with Noel Morris.
[1]
[2]
[3] In 1965, he joined
Project MAC , the predecessor of the
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory .
[4] He worked on the development of
Multics for more than 16 years at
MIT and at
Honeywell Information Systems .
[5] He has also worked at
Tandem Computers ,
Taligent ,
CyberCash ,
Sun Microsystems ,
Encirq (an internet advertising company), and
SPARTA (a computer security company).
[6]
He is also known as a
computer security expert.
[7]
Notes
^
A History of Electronic Mail , by Tom Van Vleck
^ Vleck, T. Van (2011). "Electronic Mail and Text Messaging in CTSS, 1965-1973". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing . 34 (1): 4–6.
doi :
10.1109/MAHC.2012.6 .
ISSN
1058-6180 .
^ Morris, Errol (19 June 2011).
"Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? (Part One)" . Opinionator . Archived from
the original on 18 April 2020.
^
A Marriage of Convenience: THE FOUNDING OF THE MIT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY , Chiou, Stefanie; et al. (2001)
^ Haigh, Thomas (13 September 2002).
"Multicians.org and the History of Operating Systems" (PDF) . Iterations . 1 : 1–9. Archived from
the original (PDF) on January 14, 2021.
^ Van Vleck, Tom (30 August 2022).
"Tom Van Vleck" . Multicians.org .
^
Tom Van Vleck oral history interview ,
Charles Babbage Institute , University of Minnesota.
Bibliography
Operational changes for MR 4.0 , T. H. Van Vleck, MULTICS OPERATING STAFF NOTE MOSN-A001, Honeywell, April 23, 1976
The Multics System Programming Process , Van Vleck, T. H. and Clingen, C. T.; Invited Paper,
ICSE 1978, pp. 278–280
Getting the picture; it can be done , IEEE Computer, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 112, May 1994
SPMA - Java Binary Enhancement Tool , DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition - Volume II, pp. 152, April 2003; (
DOI )
Self-Protecting Mobile Agents Obfuscation Report , L. D'Anna, B. Matt, A. Reisse, T. Van Vleck, S. Schwab, and P. LeBlanc, Report #03-015, Network Associates Laboratories, June 2003.
Anti-Phishing: Best Practices for Institutions and Consumers ; Tally, Gregg; Thomas, Roshan; Van Vleck, Tom; McAfee Research, Technical Report # 04-004
Three Questions about Each Bug You Find ,
Software Engineering Notes 14: 5:62-63 (July 1989)
Cleaning Up the Basement in the Dark ,
Software Engineering Notes , (April 1992)
--, ed., with David Walden,
The Compatible Time Sharing System (1961-1973) Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Overview , (also
at Multicians.org ) IEEE Computer Society, 2011
The IBM 7094 and CTSS
The IBM 360/67 and CP/CMS
The IBM 7070
1401s I have Known
References
Developer People Software Multics-like systems Related