Oral history interview with Thomas Van Vleck

Van Vleck, Thomas
2012-10-24
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Oral history interview with Thomas Van Vleck

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2012-10-24

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Charles Babbage Institute

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Thomas Van Vleck is a time-sharing and computer security pioneer. As a user he worked with MIT’s Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) and MULTICS as a MIT student prior to helping to design enhancements (including security enhancements) to the MULTICS system first as a technical staff member at MIT and later on Honeywell-MULTICS as a technical staff member and manager at Honeywell. The interview discusses the security issues/risks on CTSS that resulted in modest changes (password protection) to CTSS and influenced the far more extensive security design elements of MULTICS. His long association w/ MULTICS in both the MIT and Honeywell setting provides unique perspective on the evolution of MULTICS security over the long term. He also briefly discusses his post-Honeywell career working on computer security as a manager at several other firms. 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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National Science Foundation, Grant No. 1116862, “Building an Infrastructure for Computer Security History.”

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Thomas Van Vleck, OH 408. Oral history interview by Jeffrey R. Yost, 24 October 2012, Ocean City, NJ. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/144020

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Van Vleck, Thomas. (2012). Oral history interview with Thomas Van Vleck. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/144020.

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