Tom Van Vleck

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 CTSS at MIT, and co-authored its first email program with Noel 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]

• 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