Tom Van Vleck

Thomas Van Vleck (born in Hinsdale, Illinois)^[1] is an American computer software engineer.

Life and work

Van Vleck was born and grew up in Hinsdale, Illinois.^[1] He 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.^[2][3][4] In 1965, he joined Project MAC, the predecessor of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.^[5] He worked on the development of Multics for more than 16 years at MIT and at Honeywell Information Systems.^[6] He has also worked at Tandem Computers, Taligent, CyberCash, Sun Microsystems, Encirq (an internet advertising company), and SPARTA (a computer security company).^[7]

He is also known as a computer security expert.^[1]