Peter G. Neumann, Computer Security Pioneer, Dies at 93
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Updated · The New York Times · May 17
Peter G. Neumann, Computer Security Pioneer, Dies at 93
2 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 17
Peter G. Neumann, a longtime computer security researcher at SRI International, died Sunday at Santa Clara Medical Center in California at 93.
Complications from a recent fall caused his death, his daughter said, ending a career spent warning that the tech industry kept repeating avoidable security mistakes.
Since 2010, Neumann had led Cheri, a Darpa-funded project that redesigned computer hardware to block common software vulnerabilities by tightly limiting what code can do.
That Pentagon-backed approach was still his full-time work and is now being adopted by companies including Google and Microsoft, extending his influence beyond academia.
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