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Peter G. Neumann

American computer scientist (1932 - 2026)

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born: 1932
died: 2026
age at death: 93
known for: computer scientist, engineer, researcher

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who peter g. neumann is

Peter Gabriel Neumann was an American computer science researcher who studied how computer systems fail and advocated for the principles that make them fail less often.. Neumann worked on the Multics operating system in the 1960s, and edited the RISKS Digest columns for ACM Software Engineering Notes and Communications of the ACM. He founded ACM SIGSOFT and was a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAS.

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