Tom Van Vleck Explained

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

He is also known as a computer security expert.^[7]

Bibliography

• Operational changes for MR 4.0, T. H. Van Vleck, MULTICS OPERATING STAFF NOTE MOSN-A001, Honeywell, April 23, 1976
• 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
• Three Questions about Each Bug You Find, Software Engineering Notes 14:5:62-63 (July 1989)
• Cleaning Up the Basement in the Dark, Software Engineering Notes, (April 1992)
• --, ed., with David Walden, The Compatible Time Sharing System (1961-1973) Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Overview, (also at Multicians.org) IEEE Computer Society, 2011
• The IBM 7094 and CTSS
• The IBM 360/67 and CP/CMS
• The IBM 7070
• 1401s I have Known

References

• The Multics web site, Mirror of multicians.org
• Tom Van Vleck's home page
• Tom Van Vleck, "THVV Multics Bio", 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

Notes and References

1. http://www.multicians.org/thvv/mail-history.html A History of Electronic Mail
2. Vleck. T. Van. Electronic Mail and Text Messaging in CTSS, 1965-1973. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 2011. 34. 1. 4–6. 10.1109/MAHC.2012.6. 1058-6180.
3. Web site: Morris. Errol. Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? (Part One). Opinionator. 19 June 2011. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/06/20/opinion/20110620-who-invented-email.html. 18 April 2020.
4. http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2001/AILab.pdf A Marriage of Convenience: THE FOUNDING OF THE MIT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY
5. Haigh . Thomas . 13 September 2002 . Multicians.org and the History of Operating Systems . Iterations . 1 . 1–9 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210114010419/http://www.cbi.umn.edu/iterations/haigh.pdf . January 14, 2021.
6. Web site: Van Vleck . Tom . 30 August 2022 . Tom Van Vleck . Multicians.org.
7. https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/144020 Tom Van Vleck oral history interview