Mark Ludwig
{{short description|American computer scientist}}
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| death_date = 2011
| field = Computer Virology
| academic_advisors = Richard Feynman
| known_for = Computer virus research
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Mark Allen Ludwig (August 5, 1958 – 2011) was a physicist from the U.S and author of books on computer viruses and artificial life. Ludwig spent less than two years as an undergraduate at MIT, but was reputedly still able to get into the Physics doctorate program at Caltech on the basis of recommendation letters from his past MIT teachers where he was a classmate of Stephen Wolfram in Richard Feynman's course on advanced mathematical methods for physics. He died from cancer at age 51.{{cite web |url=http://www.en-genius.net/site/zones/lowpowerZONE/editorial_opinion/lpwre_100112 |title=Richard Feynman Preserved by Homomorphic Filtering |website=www.en-genius.net |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130908004520/http://www.en-genius.net/site/zones/lowpowerZONE/editorial_opinion/lpwre_100112 |archive-date=8 September 2013 |url-status=dead}}
Work
Ludwig had his own virus-writing periodical, Computer Virus Developments Quarterly. He also held the First International Virus Writing Competition, which promised a monetary reward of $200 for the creator of the smallest DOS-based, parasitic file infecter.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/20/magazine/sunday-march-20-1994-the-gotcha-virus.html|title=SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 1994; The Gotcha! Virus|date=20 March 1994|work=The New York Times|accessdate=4 January 2015}}
His Little Black Book of Computer Viruses fully describes a sophisticated MS-DOS executable virus.{{Cite web |url=https://ebookrally.com/download-book/3990532/the-little-black-book-of-computer-viruses|title=Description|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613234818/https://ebookrally.com/download-book/3990532/the-little-black-book-of-computer-viruses|archive-date=2018-06-13|access-date=|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://www.virusbtn.com/conference/vb94/VB94report.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081117021000/http://www.virusbtn.com/conference/vb94/VB94report.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 17, 2008 |title=Search results |website=google.com}} {{Better source needed|date=August 2022}} The second, Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses contains the source code of two UNIX companion viruses written in C{{cite web |url=http://www.iwar.org.uk/comsec/resources/plausibility.htm|title=The Plausibility of UNIX Virus Attacks|author=Wanja Eric Naef|publisher=Iwar.org.uk|accessdate=4 January 2015}} In his book Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution: The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses he argued for intelligent design. The book was criticized by biologist Gert Korthof for making errors and incorrect statements about evolutionary biology.{{Cite web |url=http://wasdarwinwrong.com/korthof77.htm|title=Mark A. Ludwig: Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution.|last=Korthof|first=Gert|date=|website=wasdarwinwrong.com|access-date=2018-06-13}}{{Cite web |url=http://wasdarwinwrong.com/feedback/Reply_Mark_Ludwig.htm|title=Mark Ludwig's Reply: Intelligent Design Theorist - Fact or Fiction?|last=Ludwig|first=Mark|date=June 10, 2006|website=wasdarwinwrong.org|access-date=June 13, 2018}}
Publications
- The Christian Revolutionary (2009)
- True Christian Government: The Facts About What The Bible Has To Say About Government (2009)
- The Third Paradigm: Democracy Is Headed The Way Of The Monarch By Divine Right. What Will Replace It? (2009)
- The Third Paradigm: God and Government in the 21st Century (1997)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090420151624/http://vx.netlux.org/lib/vml00.html The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses (1996)]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090415221341/http://vx.netlux.org/lib/vml01.html The Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses (1995)]
- The Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses 2nd edition (1998)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091201013256/http://vx.netlux.org/lib/vml02.html Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution (1993)]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120218004028/http://www.happyhacker.org/lbb/index.shtml The Little Black Book of Email Viruses (2002)]
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