Biography:Tom Van Vleck

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Short description: American computer programmer

Thomas Van Vleck (born in Hinsdale, Illinois)[1] is an American computer software engineer.

Life and work

Van Vleck was born and grew up in Hinsdale, Illinois.[1] He 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.[2][3][4] In 1965, he joined Project MAC, the predecessor of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.[5] He worked on the development of Multics for more than 16 years at MIT and at Honeywell Information Systems.[6] He has also worked at Tandem Computers, Taligent, CyberCash, Sun Microsystems, Encirq (an internet advertising company), and SPARTA (a computer security company).[7]

He is also known as a computer security expert.[1]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Tom Van Vleck oral history interview, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.
  2. A History of Electronic Mail, by Tom Van Vleck
  3. 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. 
  4. Morris, Errol (19 June 2011). "Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? (Part One)". https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/did-my-brother-invent-e-mail-with-tom-van-vleck-part-one/. 
  5. A Marriage of Convenience: THE FOUNDING OF THE MIT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY, Chiou, Stefanie; et al. (2001)
  6. Haigh, Thomas (13 September 2002). "Multicians.org and the History of Operating Systems". Iterations 1: 1–9. http://www.cbi.umn.edu/iterations/haigh.pdf. 
  7. Van Vleck, Tom (30 August 2022). "Tom Van Vleck". https://www.multicians.org/thvv/tvvvita.html. 

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