Peter G. Neumann

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Peter G. Neumann (born 1932) is a computer science researcher known for work on secure computing and for the RISKS Digest. In the 1960s he helped develop the Multics operating system. He edits the RISKS Digest for ACM Software Engineering Notes and Communications of the ACM, and he founded ACM SIGSOFT. He is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAS. Neumann earned three Harvard degrees: AB in Mathematics (1954), SM (1955), and PhD in Applied Mathematics and Science (1961). He had a Fulbright in Germany (1958–1960). He worked at Bell Labs from 1960 to 1970 and has worked at SRI International in Menlo Park, California since 1971. He contributed to the Provably Secure Operating System (PSOS) and, with Dorothy E. Denning in the 1980s, helped develop the IDES intrusion-detection system. He has long moderated RISKS Digest and is involved in the ACCURATE project. He was the founding editor of ACM Software Engineering Notes and received the EPIC Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.