https://archive.md/2UP3A
"In November 1952, a Harvard sophomore, Peter G. Neumann, had a two-hour
breakfast with Albert Einstein, in which they discussed the physicist’s
philosophy that “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no
simpler.”
Einstein’s aphorism led to a lifelong romance with both the beauty and the
perils of complexity for Dr. Neumann, who went on to become one of the nation’s
leading computer security researchers.
Dr. Neumann died on Sunday at the Santa Clara Medical Center in Santa Clara,
Calif. He was still working full time on a Pentagon-supported advanced computer
security design, which is being adopted by companies such as Google and
Microsoft. He was 93."
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Fwd: [multicians] Peter Neumann has died
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One of the greats, he will be sorely missed. He was still working on CHERI and
regularly publishing the
Computer Risks Digest, which I have been reading for
over 30 years, until his passing.
RIP,
*** Xanni ***
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