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 was 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 held a PhD in physics from Caltech. He died from cancer at age 51.[1]

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.[2]

His Little Black Book of Computer Viruses fully describes a sophisticated MS-DOS executable virus.[3] The second, Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses contains the source code of two UNIX companion viruses written in C[4] In his book Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution: The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses he argued for Intelligent design.[5]

Bibliography

References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20130908004520/http://www.en-genius.net/site/zones/lowpowerZONE/editorial_opinion/lpwre_100112
  2. "SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 1994; The Gotcha! Virus". Nytimes.com. 20 March 1994. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  3. Wanja Eric Naef. "The Plausibility of UNIX Virus Attacks". Iwar.org.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  4. Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution: The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses, Mark A. Ludwig, Amer Eagle Pubns Inc, 1993 ISBN 0-929408-07-1
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