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Thomas Van Vleck | |
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| Born | Hinsdale, Illinois, U.S. |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) |
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| Known for | Co-authoring the first CTSS email program |
Thomas Van Vleck is an American software engineer.
Life and work
[edit]Tom Van Vleck was born and grew up in Hinsdale, Illinois.[1] He graduated from MIT in 1965 with a BS in Mathematics. He worked on the Compatible Time-Sharing System at MIT and co-authored its first email program with Noel Morris, the brother of film director Errol Morris.[2][3][4]
In 1965, he joined Project MAC, the predecessor of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.[5] He worked on the development of Multics for more than 16 years at MIT and at Honeywell Information Systems.[6] He has also worked at Tandem Computers, Taligent, CyberCash, Sun Microsystems, Encirq (an internet advertising company), and SPARTA (a computer security company).[7]
He is also known as a computer security expert.[1] He is related to mathematician and astronomer John Monroe Van Vleck (1833–1912), mathematician Edward Burr Van Vleck (1863–1943), and Nobel Prize–winning physicist and mathematician John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899–1980).[4]
Bibliography
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 1 2 Tom Van Vleck oral history interview, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 Morris, Errol (June 19, 2011). "Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? (Part One)". Opinionator. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020.
- ↑ A Marriage of Convenience: THE FOUNDING OF THE MIT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY, Chiou, Stefanie; et al. (2001)
- ↑ Haigh, Thomas (September 13, 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 (August 30, 2022). "Tom Van Vleck". Multicians.org.
External links
[edit]- The Multics web site, Mirror of multicians.org
- Tom Van Vleck's home page
- Tom Van Vleck, "THVV Multics Bio", Multicians.org, most recent update 11/29/02
- Jeffrey R. Yost, "An Interview with Thomas Van Vleck", 24 October 2012, Computer Security History Project, Charles Babbage Institute
