Tom Van Vleck

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search

Tom Van Vleck is an American computer software engineer.

Life and work

He worked on CTSS at MIT, and co-authored its first email program.[1] In 1965, he joined Project Mac, which is the origin of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. [2] He worked for development of Multics for more than 16 years at MIT and Honeywell Information Systems. [2] Since 2007, most of the Multics source code and documentation is provided as free software by IS&T at MIT.[2][2]

He is also known as a computer security expert.[3]

Notes

  1. A History of Electronic Mail, by Tom Van Vleck
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 A Marriage of Convenience: THE FOUNDING OF THE MIT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY, Chiou, Stefanie; et al. (2001) Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "nofollow" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "nofollow" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "nofollow" defined multiple times with different content
  3. Tom Van Vleck oral history interview, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.

Writing

References