Peter G. Neumann

Peter G. Neumann
Born 1932 (age 85–86)
Alma mater Harvard University
Known for RISKS Digest
Multics operating system
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Institutions SRI International
Thesis Efficient Error-Limiting Codes (1961)
Doctoral advisor Anthony Gervin Oettinger[1]

Peter Gabriel Neumann (born 1932) is a computer-science researcher who worked on the Multics operating system in the 1960s.[2] He edits the RISKS Digest columns for ACM Software Engineering Notes and Communications of the ACM.[3] He founded ACM SIGSOFT and is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE,[4] and AAAS.[5]

Early life and education

Neumann studied at Harvard University (1950–1958), gaining a Ph.D. in 1961 after a Fulbright scholarship in Germany (1958–1960). While a student at Harvard, he had a two-hour breakfast with Albert Einstein on November 8, 1952. They discussed simplicity in design.[6]

Career

Neumann worked at Bell Labs from 1960 to 1970. He has worked at SRI International in Menlo Park, California since 1971.

Before the RISKS mailing list, Neumann was best known for the Provably Secure Operating System (PSOS).

Neumann worked with Dorothy E. Denning in the 1980s to develop an computer intrusion detection system known as IDES that was a model for later computer security software.

Memberships and awards

Neumann has long served as moderator of RISKS Digest, and is a member of the ACCURATE project.

Neumann is the founding editor of ACM Software Engineering Notes (SEN), and is a fellow of the ACM.[7]

Selected publications

  • Neumann, Peter G., Computer-Related Risks, Addison-Wesley/ACM Press, ISBN 0-201-55805-X, 1995.

References

  1. ↑ Peter G. Neumann at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ R. C. Daley and P. G. Neumann (1965). "A General-Purpose File System For Secondary Storage". 1965 Fall Joint Computer Conference. Archived from the original on 2012-11-10.
  3. ↑ http://queue.acm.org/risksforum.cfm
  4. ↑ http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/alphabetical/nfellows.html
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-01-15. Retrieved 2011-05-21.
  6. ↑ Markoff, John (30 Oct 2012). "Killing the Computer to Save It". The New York Times. New York Times. p. D1.
  7. ↑ Association for Computing Machinery. "ACM: Fellows Award / Peter G Neumann". Association for Computing Machinery. Archived from the original on 4 October 2006.
  • Home page
  • Short biography
  • RISKS Forum archive
  • Peter G. Neumann oral history, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota
  • John Markoff (2012-10-30). "Killing the Computer to Save It (profile of Neumann)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2012-11-10.


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