Tom van Vleck
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Life and work
He worked on CTSS at MITMassachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
, and co-authored its first email program.
In 1965, he joined Project Mac, which is the origin of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology formed by the 2003 merger of the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory...
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A Marriage of Convenience: THE FOUNDING OF THE MIT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY, Chiou, Stefanie; et. al. (2001)
He worked for development of Multics
Multics
Multics was an influential early time-sharing operating system. The project was started in 1964 in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
for more than 16 years at MIT and Honeywell
Honeywell
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Information Systems.
Multicians.org and the History of Operating Systems; Haigh, Thomas; Iterations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Software History 1 (September 13, 2002); pp. 1-9
Since 2007, most of Multics
Multics
Multics was an influential early time-sharing operating system. The project was started in 1964 in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
source code
Source code
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s and documentations are provided as free software
Free software
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by IS&TMultics, Information Services and Technology for MIT at MIT, for which project he contributed significantly.Multics Internet Server, Information Services and Technology for MIT
He is also known as a computer security
Computer security
Computer security is a branch of computer technology known as information security as applied to computers and networks. The objective of computer security includes protection of information and property from theft, corruption, or natural disaster, while allowing the information and property to...
expert, Thirty Years Later: Lessons from the Multics Security Evaluation; Karger, Paul A.; Schell, Roger R.; IBM (2002) and wrote some documents.
Writing
- Operational changes for MR 4.0, T. H. Van Vleck, MULTICS OPERATING STAFF NOTE MOSN-A001, Honeywell, April 23, 1976
- [ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/multics/tvv/mspp.html 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