George Ledin

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George Ledin
Born(1946-01-28)January 28, 1946
NationalityAmerica
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley
University of San Francisco
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Institutions Sonoma State University

George Ledin, Jr. (born January 28, 1946) is an American computer scientist and professor of computer science at Sonoma State University. Ledin's teaching of computer security at Sonoma State has been controversial for its inclusion of material on how to write malware. Ledin is a strong critic of the antivirus software industry, whose products he considers almost useless. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Ledin also helped found the computer science program at the University of San Francisco, and published several books on computing in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Education and career

Ledin is a 1967 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. [6]

He started teaching computer science at the University of San Francisco in 1965, as the second computer scientist at the university, five years before the university's computer science department itself was founded. [7] In 1970, he served as vice-president of The Fibonacci Association, and host of its annual meeting. [8] In 1973, as a researcher in the Institute of Chemical Biology and instructor in computer science at the university, he was the chair of the first national conference on ALGOL, [9] By 1980 he was head of the computer science department at the university. [10]

He earned a Juris Doctor at the University of San Francisco in 1982, and moved to the Sonoma State faculty in 1984. [6]

Books

Ledin is author or co-author of books including:

Personal life

Ledin was born in Austria. [9] He and his co-author Victor Ledin are brothers, [10] both sons of Georgii Grigorievich Ledin (1921–2019), an immigrant from the Georgian city of Sukhumi. [18]

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  6. 1 2 "Sonoma State University 2018–2019 Catalog" (PDF). p. 468. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
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  8. ↑ "Natty numbers to draw cryptic crowd to campus". San Francisco Foghorn. March 13, 1970. p. 2 – via University of San Francisco Gleeson Library.
  9. 1 2 "Ledin discusses computer marvel". San Francisco Foghorn. September 22, 1973. p. 5 – via University of San Francisco Gleeson Library.
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