Tom Van Vleck is an American computer software engineer.
Van Vleck 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. [1] [2] [3] In 1965, he joined Project MAC, the predecessor of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. [4] He worked on the development of Multics for more than 16 years at MIT and at Honeywell Information Systems. [5] He has also worked at Tandem Computers, Taligent, CyberCash, Sun Microsystems, Encirq (an internet advertising company), and SPARTA (a computer security company). [6]
He is also known as a computer security expert. [7]