Tom Van Vleck

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

  1. ^ A History of Electronic Mail, by Tom Van Vleck
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ A Marriage of Convenience: THE FOUNDING OF THE MIT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY, Chiou, Stefanie; et al. (2001)
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Van Vleck, Tom (30 August 2022). "Tom Van Vleck". Multicians.org.
  7. ^ 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

  • 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