Tom Van Vleck
American software engineer
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Thomas Van Vleck is an American software engineer.
Thomas Van Vleck | |
|---|---|
| Born | Hinsdale, Illinois, U.S. |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) |
| Occupations | |
| Known for | Co-authoring the first CTSS email program |
Life and work
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
- 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