Mark Allen Ludwig (August 5, 1958 – 2011) was a physicist from the U.S and author of books on computer viruses and artificial life. Ludwig spent less than two years as an undergraduate at MIT, but was reputedly still able to get into the Physics doctorate program at Caltech on the basis of recommendation letters from his past MIT teachers where he was a classmate of Stephen Wolfram in Richard Feynman's course on advanced mathematical methods for physics. He died from cancer at age 51.[1]
Mark Allen Ludwig | |
|---|---|
| Died | 2011 |
| Alma mater | MIT, Caltech |
| Known for | Computer virus research |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Virology |
| Academic advisors | Richard Feynman |
Work edit
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][4] The second, Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses contains the source code of two UNIX companion viruses written in C[5] In his book Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution: The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses he argued for intelligent design. The book was criticized by biologist Gert Korthof for making errors and incorrect statements about evolutionary biology.[6][7]
Publications edit
- The Christian Revolutionary (2009)
- True Christian Government: The Facts About What The Bible Has To Say About Government (2009)
- The Third Paradigm: Democracy Is Headed The Way Of The Monarch By Divine Right. What Will Replace It? (2009)
- The Third Paradigm: God and Government in the 21st Century (1997)
- The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses (1996)
- The Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses (1995)
- The Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses 2nd edition (1998)
- Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution (1993)
- The Little Black Book of Email Viruses (2002)
References edit
- ^ "Richard Feynman Preserved by Homomorphic Filtering". www.en-genius.net. Archived from the original on 8 September 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ "SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 1994; The Gotcha! Virus". The New York Times. 20 March 1994. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
- ^ "Description". Archived from the original on 2018-06-13.
- ^ "Search results". google.com. [better source needed]
- ^ Wanja Eric Naef. "The Plausibility of UNIX Virus Attacks". Iwar.org.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
- ^ Korthof, Gert. "Mark A. Ludwig: Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution". wasdarwinwrong.com. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
- ^ Ludwig, Mark (June 10, 2006). "Mark Ludwig's Reply: Intelligent Design Theorist - Fact or Fiction?". wasdarwinwrong.org. Retrieved June 13, 2018.