Tom Van Vleck

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.[http://www.multicians.org/thvv/mail-history.html A History of Electronic Mail], by Tom Van Vleck{{cite journal|last1=Vleck|first1=T. Van|title=Electronic Mail and Text Messaging in CTSS, 1965-1973|journal=IEEE Annals of the History of Computing|date=2011|volume=34|issue=1|pages=4–6|doi=10.1109/MAHC.2012.6|issn=1058-6180}}{{cite web|last1=Morris|first1=Errol|title=Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? (Part One)|url=https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/did-my-brother-invent-e-mail-with-tom-van-vleck-part-one/|website=Opinionator|date=19 June 2011|archive-url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/06/20/opinion/20110620-who-invented-email.html|archive-date=18 April 2020}} In 1965, he joined Project MAC, the predecessor of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.[http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2001/AILab.pdf A Marriage of Convenience: THE FOUNDING OF THE MIT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY], Chiou, Stefanie; et al. (2001) He worked on the development of Multics for more than 16 years at MIT and at Honeywell Information Systems.{{Cite journal |last=Haigh |first=Thomas |date=13 September 2002 |title=Multicians.org and the History of Operating Systems |url=http://www.cbi.umn.edu/iterations/haigh.pdf |journal=Iterations |volume=1 |pages=1–9 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114010419/http://www.cbi.umn.edu/iterations/haigh.pdf |archive-date=January 14, 2021}} He has also worked at Tandem Computers, Taligent, CyberCash, Sun Microsystems, Encirq (an internet advertising company), and SPARTA (a computer security company).{{Cite web |last=Van Vleck |first=Tom |date=30 August 2022 |title=Tom Van Vleck |url=https://www.multicians.org/thvv/tvvvita.html |website=Multicians.org}}

He is also known as a computer security expert.[https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/144020 Tom Van Vleck oral history interview], Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.

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• [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/honeywell/multics/redell/mosn/MOSN-A001.pdf Operational changes for MR 4.0], T. H. Van Vleck, MULTICS OPERATING STAFF NOTE MOSN-A001, Honeywell, April 23, 1976
• [https://multicians.org/mspp.html The Multics System Programming Process], Van Vleck, T. H. and Clingen, C. T.; Invited Paper, [http://www.icse-conferences.org/ ICSE] 1978, pp. 278–280
• [https://multicians.org/andre.html Getting the picture; it can be done], IEEE Computer, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 112, May 1994
• [http://csdl2.computer.org/comp/proceedings/discex/2003/1897/02/189720152.pdf SPMA - Java Binary Enhancement Tool], DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition - Volume II, pp. 152, April 2003; ([http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/DISCEX.2003.1194956 DOI])
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060722185321/http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/darpa/obfreport.pdf 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.
• [https://multicians.org/thvv/mirror/wp_anti_phishing.pdf Anti-Phishing: Best Practices for Institutions and Consumers]; Tally, Gregg; Thomas, Roshan; Van Vleck, Tom; McAfee Research, Technical Report # 04-004
• [https://multicians.org/thvv/threeq.html Three Questions about Each Bug You Find], Software Engineering Notes 14:5:62-63 (July 1989)
• [https://multicians.org/thvv/dark.html Cleaning Up the Basement in the Dark], Software Engineering Notes, (April 1992)
• --, ed., with David Walden, [https://people.csail.mit.edu/saltzer/Multics/CTSS-Documents/CTSS_50th_anniversary_web_03.pdf The Compatible Time Sharing System (1961-1973) Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Overview], (also [https://multicians.org/thvv/compatible-time-sharing-system.pdf at Multicians.org]) IEEE Computer Society, 2011
• [https://multicians.org/thvv/7094.html The IBM 7094 and CTSS]
• [https://multicians.org/thvv/360-67.html The IBM 360/67 and CP/CMS]
• [https://multicians.org/thvv/7070.html The IBM 7070]
• [https://multicians.org/thvv/1401s.html 1401s I have Known]

• [http://ftp.stratus.com/vos/multics/tvv/about-multics.html The Multics web site], Mirror of [http://www.multicians.org multicians.org]
• [http://www.multicians.org/thvv/tvv-home.html?1 Tom Van Vleck's home page]
• Tom Van Vleck, "[https://multicians.org/tvv-multics-bio.html THVV Multics Bio]", Multicians.org, most recent update 11/29/02
• Jeffrey R. Yost, "[https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/144020 An Interview with Thomas Van Vleck]", 24 October 2012, Computer Security History Project, Charles Babbage Institute

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