Tom Van Vleck is an American computer software engineer.

Life and work

Van Vleck graduated from

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...

in 1965 with a BS in Mathematics. He worked on CTSS at

, and co-authored its first email program with Noel Morris. In 1965, he joined

Project MAC Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is a research institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) formed by the 2003 merger of the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) and the Artificial Intelligence Lab ...

, the predecessor of the

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is a research institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) formed by the 2003 merger of the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) and the Artificial Intelligence Lab ...

.''A Marriage of Convenience: THE FOUNDING OF THE MIT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY''
Chiou, Stefanie; et al. (2001) He worked on the development of

Multics Multics ("Multiplexed Information and Computing Service") is an influential early time-sharing operating system based on the concept of a single-level memory.Dennis M. Ritchie, "The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System", Communications of t ...

for more than 16 years at

and at

Honeywell Information Systems Honeywell International Inc. is an American publicly traded, multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. It primarily operates in four areas of business: aerospace, building technologies, performance ma ...

. He has also worked at

Tandem Computers Tandem Computers, Inc. was the dominant manufacturer of fault-tolerant computer systems for Automated teller machine, ATM networks, banks, stock exchanges, telephone switching centers, and other similar commercial transaction processing applicati ...

Taligent Taligent Inc. (a portmanteau of "talent" and "intelligent") was an American software company. Based on the Pink object-oriented operating system conceived by Apple in 1988, Taligent Inc. was incorporated as an Apple/IBM partnership in 1992, and w ...

, CyberCash,

Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the ...

, Encirq (an internet advertising company), and

SPARTA Sparta ( Doric Greek: Σπάρτα, ''Spártā''; Attic Greek: Σπάρτη, ''Spártē'') was a prominent city-state in Laconia, in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (, ), while the name Sparta referre ...

(a computer security company). He is also known as a

computer security Computer security, cybersecurity (cyber security), or information technology security (IT security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from attack by malicious actors that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, the ...

expert.Tom Van Vleck oral history interview

Charles Babbage Institute The IT History Society (ITHS) is an organization that supports the history and scholarship of information technology by encouraging, fostering, and facilitating archival and historical research. Formerly known as the Charles Babbage Foundation, ...

, University of Minnesota.

Notes

Bibliography

''Operational changes for MR 4.0''
T. H. Van Vleck, MULTICS OPERATING STAFF NOTE MOSN-A001, Honeywell, April 23, 1976 *

', Van Vleck, T. H. and Clingen, C. T.; Invited Paper
ICSE
1978, pp. 278–280 *

', 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

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Software Engineering Notes The ACM SIGSOFT ''Software Engineering Notes'' (SEN) is published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for the ''Special Interest Group on Software Engineering'' (SIGSOFT). It was established in 1976, and the first issue appeared in M ...

'' 14:5:62-63 (July 1989)
Cleaning Up the Basement in the Dark
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'', (April 1992) * --, ed., with David Walden
The Compatible Time Sharing System (1961-1973) Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Overview
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at Multicians.org
IEEE Computer Society, 2011

References

Mirror o
multicians.org

* Tom Van Vleck,

, 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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Vleck, Tom Van Computer systems engineers American software engineers Software engineering researchers Computer security academics American computer programmers Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni Multics people Living people Year of birth missing (living people)