- Fred Cohen
Fred Cohen is an American
computer scientist and best known as the inventor ofcomputer virus defense techniques.In 1983, while a student at the
University of Southern California 's School of Engineering (currently theViterbi School of Engineering ), he wrote a program for a parasitic application that seized control of computer operations, one of the first computer viruses, inLeonard Adleman ’s class.One of the few solid theoretical results in the study of computer viruses is Cohen's 1987 demonstration that there is no algorithm that can perfectly detect all possible viruses. [ [http://www.research.ibm.com/antivirus/SciPapers/VB2000DC.htm An Undetectable Computer Virus (academic paper)] ]
He has many other works related to computer viruses.
References
* [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=25139&CFID=25830171 Cohen, F., 1987. "Computer Viruses Theory and Experiments," Computers and Security, vol. 6, pp. 22--35] .
External links
* [http://all.net/resume/bio.html A short biography]
* [http://security.itworld.com/4337/transcript_fredcohen_geer060906/page_1.html Interview with Fred Cohen]ITworld
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