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Oral history interview with Peter J. Denning
No full textTranscript, 70 pp.This interview focuses on Peter Denning’s pioneering early contributions to computer security. This includes discussion of his perspective on CTSS and Multics as a graduate student at MIT, pioneering (with his student Scott Graham) the critical computer security concept of a reference monitor for each information object as a young faculty member at Princeton University, and his continuing contributions to the computer security field in his first years as a faculty member at Purdue University. Because of an extensive, career spanning oral history done with Denning as part of the ACM Oral History series (which includes his contributions as President of ACM, research on operating systems, and principles of computer science), this interview is primarily limited to Denning’s early career when computer security was one of his fundamental research areas.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1116862, “Building an Infrastructure for Computer Security History.”National Science Foundation Grant No. 1116862, “Building an Infrastructure for Computer Security History.”Denning, Peter J.. (2013). Oral history interview with Peter J. Denning. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/156515
An Interview with Peter Denning, "The End of the Future" : Interviewed by Brian Branagan
No full textThe article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1979462.1979464Brian Branagan interviews Peter J. Denning for Ubiquity on the messy business of predicting the future.UbiquityUbiquity is dedicated to the future of computing and the people who are creating it. What exactly does this mean for readers, for contributors, and for editors soliciting and reviewing contributions? We decided to ask the editor in chief, Peter Denning, how he approaches the future, and how his philosophy is reflected in the design and execution of the Ubiquity mission. He had a surprisingly rich set of answers to our questions. We believe his answers may be helpful for all our readers with their own approaches to their own futures
An Interview with Peter Denning on the great principles of computing
No full textThe article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.A computing visionary and leader of the movement to define and elucidate the "great principles of computing," Peter J. Denning is a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is a former president of the ACM
A Ten Point Checklist for Getting it off the Shelf: an Interview with Dick Urban by Peter J. Denning
No full textThe article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.Editor’s Introduction: Far too many R&D programs in industry as well as government result in reports or prototypes that represent fundamentally good ideas but end up gathering dust on a shelf. Ellison “Dick” Urban, formerly of DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and now the Director of Washington Operations at Draper Laboratory, has had considerable experience with technology transition. We talked to him about his guidelines for success. (Peter J. Denning, Editor
Writing Secure Programs, An Interview with Steve Lipner, by Peter J. Denning
No full textThe article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.Editor's Introduction: Protecting computing systems and networks from attackers and data theft is an enormously complicated problem. The individual operating systems are complex (typically more than 40 million lines of code), they are connected to an enormous Internet (on order of 1 billion hosts), and the whole network is heavily populated (more than 2.3 billion users). Hunting down and patching vulnerabilities is a losing game. Steve Lipner, partner director of program management in Trustworthy Computing Security at Microsoft, has been involved in securing systems for nearly 40 years and has learned how to make security better. His responsibilities encompass Microsoft’s process for assuring the security of its products and online services— the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL)—as well as a variety of programs related to government evaluations of the security and integrity of Microsoft products and services. Lipner has been a consultant, researcher, development manager, and corporate executive in what we refer to today as “cyber security.” Here he shares his experiences in what has and has not worked. He sees by far the best results when programmers adopt secure development practices. (Peter J. Denning Editor-in-Chief
Bringing Architecture Back to Computing An Interview with Daniel A. Menasce , by Peter J. Denning
No full textThe article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.Editor's Introduction: Over the past 10 or 20 years, the subject of machine organization and system architecture has been deemphasized in favor of the powerful abstractions that support computational thinking. We have grown accustomed to slogans like “computing is bits, not atoms”—suggesting that bits are not physical and the properties of the physical world are less and less important for understanding computation. Daniel Menascé, a Professor of Computer Science and Senior Associate Dean at George Mason University’s Volgenau School of Engineering, is alarmed at this trend. He has extensive experience with designing and deploying networks of distributed services. Menascé claims all computing takes place in the physical world and is constrained by physical limitations of components. He believes without an appreciation for system architecture and the limitations of physical components, future computing people will be unable to design safe, secure, usable, and reliable systems. He calls for all computing professionals to pay attention to the architecture and for educators to restore balance in their teaching of architecture. (Peter J. Denning, Editor
Are Militaries Lagging Their Non-State Enemies in use of Internet? An Interview with Chris Gunderson by Peter Denning
No full textThe article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.The increasing number of cyber attacks on military networks and servers has raised the question of what the global defense community is doing to safeguard military systems and protect the larger global Internet. Ubiquity's editor interviewed Chris Gunderson, who served in the U.S. Navy from 1973 to 2004 and became an expert in "network centric" warfare, on this question and in particular on how military philosophy must change to adapt to the rise of information networks. (Peter J. Denning, Editor
Murder on the mountain: author talk with Peter J. Wosh
No full textAuthor talk by Peter J. Wosh on May 5th, 2022, on his book, "Murder on the Mountain: crime, passion, and punishment in gilded age New Jersey.
Peter J. Denning
No full textThe article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2012.65A leading scientist in computing
since his graduation from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in
1968, Peter J. Denning is best
known for his pioneering work in
virtual memory, especially for
inventing the working-set model
for program behavior, which eliminated
thrashing in operating systems
and became the reference
standard for all memory management
policies. He is also known for
his work on the principles of operating systems, operational
analysis of queueing network systems, the design
and implementation of the Computer Science Network
(CSNET), ACM digital library, and codifying the principles
of computing. A primary goal of Denning’s career
has always been promoting the science in computer
science through education, research, and the general
health of the field
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