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Peter G. Neumann

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American computer scientist (1932 - 2026)

United StatesScientistsLived 1932 to 2026 · aged 93
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Peter Gabriel Neumann was an American computer science researcher who studied how computer systems fail and advocated for the principles that make them fail less often..

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1997Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility
1996EFF Award
1994ACM Fellow
Fulbright Scholarship
IEEE Fellow
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Peter Gabriel Neumann was an American computer science researcher who studied how computer systems fail and advocated for the principles that make them fail less often.. Neumann worked on the Multics operating system in the 1960s, and edited the RISKS Digest columns for ACM Software Engineering Notes and Communications of the ACM. He founded ACM SIGSOFT and was a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAS.

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United States
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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1932 to 2026 · aged 93
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