Peter G. Neumann

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Peter G. Neumann : biography

1932 –

Peter Gabriel Neumann is a researcher who has worked on the Multics operating system in the 1960s. He edits the RISKS Digest columns for ACM Software Engineering Notes and Communications of the ACM.http://queue.acm.org/risksforum.cfm He founded ACM SIGSOFT and is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE,http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/alphabetical/nfellows.html and AAAS.http://php.aaas.org/about/aaas_fellows/list.php

Selected publications

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

Memberships and awards

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

Peter was the founding editor of ACM Software Engineering Notes (SEN), and is a fellow of the ACM.

Career

He 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, Peter was best known for the Provably Secure Operating System (PSOS).

Early life and education

He 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.