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.
[ A History of Electronic Mail, by Tom Van Vleck] In 1965, he joined
Project MAC, the predecessor of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
[ A Marriage of Convenience: THE FOUNDING OF THE MIT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY, Chiou, Stefanie; et al. (2001)] He worked on the development of
Multics for more than 16 years at
MIT and at Honeywell Information Systems.
He has also worked at
Tandem Computers,
Taligent,
CyberCash,
Sun Microsystems,
Encirq (an internet advertising company), and SPARTA (a computer security company).
He is also known as a computer security expert.[ Tom Van Vleck oral history interview, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.]
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Bibliography
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Operational changes for MR 4.0, T. H. Van Vleck, MULTICS OPERATING STAFF NOTE MOSN-A001, Honeywell, April 23, 1976
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The Multics System Programming Process, Van Vleck, T. H. and Clingen, C. T.; Invited Paper, ICSE 1978, pp. 278–280
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Getting the picture; it can be done, IEEE Computer, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 112, May 1994
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SPMA - Java Binary Enhancement Tool, DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition - Volume II, pp. 152, April 2003; ( DOI)
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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.
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Anti-Phishing: Best Practices for Institutions and Consumers; Tally, Gregg; Thomas, Roshan; Van Vleck, Tom; McAfee Research, Technical Report # 04-004
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Three Questions about Each Bug You Find, Software Engineering Notes 14:5:62-63 (July 1989)
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Cleaning Up the Basement in the Dark, Software Engineering Notes, (April 1992)
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--, ed., with David Walden, The Compatible Time Sharing System (1961-1973) Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Overview, (also at Multicians.org) IEEE Computer Society, 2011
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The IBM 7094 and CTSS
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The IBM 360/67 and CP/CMS
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The IBM 7070
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1401s I have Known
