Peter J. Salzman

Peter J. Salzman was a computer hacker and former senior member of the hacking group, Legion of Doom, in the early 1980s. He was the first hacker apprehended during Operation Sundevil.

Salzman was the founder and many time president of the Linux Users Group of Davis. He finished a Ph.D. at University of California at Davis in physics, doing a dissertation on the semi-classical theory of gravitation, a subtopic of quantum gravity. He is also the author and former maintainer of the popular Using GNU's GDB Debugger. He is also the author and maintainer of the popular guide on Linux Kernel Module Programming, the "Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide".

Salzman finished a Master of Quantitative Finance at Baruch College. He worked as a quantitative-developer for Fitch Ratings and Fitch Solutions before becoming a quantitative analyst for Algorithmics. He is currently a quantitative analyst for IBM.

He co-authored (along with Norman Matloff) a popular book on computer program debugging called "The Art of Debugging with GDB", which was published on April 15, 2008.

External links

• Peter Jay Salzman's dissertation: Investigation of the Time Dependent Schrodinger-Newton Equation
• Using The GNU GDB Debugger A comprehensive gdb tutorial with examples and exercises. Authored by Peter Jay Salzman.

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