Mark Ludwig

Mark Allen Ludwig
Residence	Tucson, Arizona, United States
Fields	Computer Virology
Alma mater	MIT, Caltech
Known for	Computer virus research

Mark Allen Ludwig is a physicist from the U.S and author of books on computer viruses and artificial life. Ludwig finished his undergraduate study in two years at MIT. He holds a PhD in physics from Caltech.

Work

Ludwig had his own virus-writing periodical, Computer Virus Developments Quarterly. He also held the First International Virus Writing Competition, which promised a monetary reward of $200 for the creator of the smallest DOS-based, parasitic file infecter.^[1]

His Little Black Book of Computer Viruses fully describes a sophisticated MS-DOS executable virus.^[2] The second, Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses contains the source code of two UNIX companion viruses written in C^[3] In his book Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution: The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses he argued for Intelligent design.^[4]

Bibliography

• The Christian Revolutionary (2009)
• True Christian Government: The Facts About What The Bible Has To Say About Government (2009)
• The Third Paradigm: Democracy Is Headed The Way Of The Monarch By Divine Right. What Will Replace It? (2009)
• The Third Paradigm: God and Government in the 21st Century" (1997)
• The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses (1996)
• The Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses (1995)
• Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution (1993)

References

1. ^ "The Gotcha Virus" New York Times, Mar. 20 1994
2. ^ Virus Bulletin, Oct. 1994
3. ^ The Plausibility of UNIX Virus Attacks
4. ^ Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution: The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses, Mark A. Ludwig, Amer Eagle Pubns Inc, 1993 ISBN 0929408071

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