Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema | |
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.jpg) Wietse Venema speaking at a conference in 2004 | |
| Born | 1951 (age 72–73) |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Alma mater | University of Groningen |
| Known for | Postfix MTA, TCP Wrappers |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Google, Inc. Thomas J. Watson Research Center Eindhoven University of Technology |
Wietse Zweitze Venema (born 1951) is a Dutch programmer and physicist best known for writing the Postfix email system. He also wrote TCP Wrapper and collaborated with Dan Farmer to produce the computer security tools SATAN and The Coroner's Toolkit.[1][2][3]
Biography[edit]
He studied physics at the University of Groningen, continuing there to get a PhD in 1984 with the dissertation Left-right symmetry in nuclear beta decay.[4] He spent 12 years at Eindhoven University as a systems architect in the Mathematics and Computer Science department, and spent part of this time writing tools for Electronic Data Interchange. Since emigrating to the U.S. in 1996 and until 2015, he has been working for the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York State.[5] On March 24, 2015, he announced he was leaving IBM for Google.[6]
Awards[edit]
Awards Venema has received for his work:[7]
- Security Summit Hall of Fame Award (July 1998)
- SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award (November 1999)
- NLUUG Award (November 2000)
- Sendmail Milter Innovation Award (November 2006)
- The 2008 Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software (March 2009)
- ISSA Hall of Fame Award (October 2012)
References[edit]
- ^ "Wietse Venema". Faces of Open Source. 2018-10-01.
- ^ Dunston, Duane; Day, Brittany (2004-07-08). "Catching up with Wietse Venema, creator of Postfix and TCP Wrapper". LinuxSecurity.com.
- ^ "The Wietse Venema Interview". safemode.org. 2002. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
- ^ Venema, Wietse Zweitze (1984). Left-right symmetry in nuclear beta decay (Thesis fully internal (DIV)). University of Groningen. hdl:11370/b087d2cd-512c-4338-b870-275d221147c4.
- ^ "Wietse Z. Venema: UNIX/Internet Security". IBM. Archived from the original on 2014-08-08.
- ^ Venema, Wietse Zweitze (2015-03-24). "Goodbye IBM, Hello Google". postfix-users mailing list.
- ^ "Wietse's Awards". porcupine.org.
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| International | |
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| National | |
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- Dutch computer scientists
- 20th-century Dutch physicists
- 1951 births
- Living people
- American computer scientists
- People associated with computer security
- Dutch emigrants to the United States
- Google employees
- Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology
- University of Groningen alumni
- 21st-century Dutch physicists
- Google people