Browsing by Subject "Los Alamos National Laboratory"

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    Oral history interview with Norman Hardy
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2012-04-04) Hardy, Norman
    Norman Hardy, one of the early and continuing technical leaders at Tymshare, Inc, discusses technological and organizational development of the company. Among the topics discussed are the adoption of new systems – SDS 940, DEC PDP-10, IBM 370 – and the development and evaluation of TYMNET. He also discusses early context to time-sharing, the long-term challenges of the proprietary network model in light of the internet and applications.
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    Oral history interview with Rebecca G. Bace
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2012-07-31) Bace, Rebecca G.
    Rebecca Bace, who has a Master of Engineering Science degree from Loyola College, is a leading figure in the computer security field of intrusion detection. She is the author the influential textbook on this topic, Intrusion Detection, and was leader of the pioneering Computer Misuse and Anomaly Detection (CMAD) Research Program at the National Security Agency from 1989 to 1995. In this capacity, she sponsored much of the first wave of path breaking academic research on intrusion detection. This interview briefly addresses Ms. Bace’s education and early professional life before focusing on her dozen years at the NSA, and specifically her leadership of CMAD. In detailing the portfolio of early CMAD sponsored projects that Bace supported, it provides an important lens into the early evolution of intrusion detection as a research field and area of practice, and identifies many of this field’s pioneering contributors. The interview also briefly touches on Bace’s work after leaving the NSA, including at Los Alamos National Laboratory and as President of the consulting firm Infidel, Inc. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1116862, “Building an Infrastructure for Computer Security History.”
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    Oral history interview with Seymour E. Goodman
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2013-08-06) Goodman, Seymour E.
    In this oral history, Seymour Goodman describes his career in computing, beginning with his education including undergraduate work at Columbia University and earning a Ph.D. in mathematical physics at California Institute of Technology. Facing the downturn in physics employment around 1970, he took a position at the University of Virginia and transformed himself into a computer scientist specializing in algorithms. While on a sabbatical leave at Princeton University, he became interested in the social and political analysis of computers, especially in the Soviet Union and other East Bloc states. While at Princeton he began what developed into the MOSAIC project (unrelated to the web browser of that name) which flourished with his move to the University of Arizona. MOSAIC staff collected available information on Soviet computing and conducted numerous study tours to investigate the state of Soviet Bloc computing. (Reports from many of these study tours are available at CBI.) This work supported U.S. government efforts in export control policy and implementation. After the 1989-91 political transitions, Goodman’s group began another series of international visitations and field research on the global diffusion of the internet. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1116862, “Building an Infrastructure for Computer Security History.”