- Errol Morris
Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck?
The New York Times, The Opinion Pages, June 2011.
An essay published in five parts. Part three, 21 June 2011, consists primarily of an edited transcription of a May 2011 interview with Jerome H. Saltzer.
Online: Part three of the essay (web page) in the New York Times archive (open access—no fee required).
Links to all five parts of the essay (web page) on longform.org.
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Remarks upon Accepting the 2010 National Computer System
Security Award.
May 17, 2010.
On-line:
Transcript of remarks (ASCII text).
Transcript of remarks (PDF).
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We thought we had this stuff figured out back in the 1970s.
What went wrong?
Keynote speech at the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Secure
Software Engineering (ISSSE 2006), March 13, 2006, Washington D.C.
On-line: Abstract (ASCII text).
Presentation slides (PDF).
Notes prepared for the talk (ASCII text).
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Coping with Complexity.
Invited presentation at
- the ACM Seventeenth Symposium on
Operating Systems Principles, December 14, 1999. A brief summary
by Jay Lepreau and Eric Eide appeared in
Operating Systems Review 34, 2 (April 2000), pages
7-8.
- Boise Computer Society annual banquet, Boise, Idaho, October 25, 2006.
On-line: A summary is available in
the ACM Digital
Library (open access—no fee required).
SOSP presentation slides (PDF).
Notes prepared for the talk (PDF).
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What has changed?
Talk given at a workshop on security and languges, DEC System Research
Center, Palo Alto, California, 30 October 1997.
On-line: Presentation slides (PDF).
Notes prepared for the talk (ASCII text).
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Replication for long-term persistence.
Presented at
- Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, October 24, 1995.
- Stanford University Digital Library group, October 25, 1995.
- Digital Equipment Corporation Systems Research Center, Palo Alto,
October 26, 1995.
On-line: Presentation slides (PDF).
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M.I.T. CS-TR Activities
Presented at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives,
Reston, Virginia, November 10, 1994.
On-line: Presentation slides (PDF).
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Storage, the Unnoticed Revolution.
Invited presentation at an open session of the Computer Science
& Telecommunications Board, National Research Council,
Washington, D. C., May 24, 1993. Also given at Digital Equipment
Corporation Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, August 25, 1993.
On-line: Presentation
slides (PDF). Notes prepared
for the CSTB talk (PDF).
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Technology, Networks, and the Library of the Future.
Presented at:
- Digital Equipment Corporation Systems Research
Center, Palo Alto, California, ca. December 1989.
- MIT EECS Colloquium, October 28, 1991.
- Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts, February 13, 1992.
- International Conference on the Occasion of the
25th Anniversary of Institut en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA),
Paris, December 8 1992.
- IBM Research Laboratory, Hawthorne, New York,
February 26, 1993.
On-line: Presentation
slides (PDF).
Additional slides (PDF) used in research presentations.
Notes prepared
for the EECS Colloquium. (ASCII text)
There is also a closely related paper.
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Fault-Tolerance in Very Large Archival Systems
Presented at Fourth SIGOPS European Workshop, September 4, 1990,
Bologna. A brief summary, by Ozalp Babaoglu, appeared in Operating
Systems Reveiw 25, 1 (January 1991), pages 27-28.
On-line: Presentation
slides (PDF). Notes
prepared for the talk (ASCII text).
Babaoglu's OSR summary of the talk is available in
the ACM Digital
Library (open access—no fee required). A short paper was
published in the proceedings of the workshop.
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Some unsolved problems of distributed systems management as
seen from Project Athena.
Talk presented at the Workshop on Progress in Distributed Operating
Systems and Distributed Systems Management, German National Research
Center for Computer Science (GMD), Berlin, April 19, 1989.
On-line:
Notes prepared for the
talk (ASCII text).
Presentation slides (PDF).
A full citation is in the list of formal
publications.
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Lessons from Project Athena.
Talk presented at:
- Hewlett-Packard Distributed Computing Symposium, Palo
Alto, January 28, 1988.
- Distinguished Lecture Series, Computer Science
Department, Purdue
University, March 21, 1988.
- The Gaschnig/Oakley Memorial lecture, Computer Science
Department, Carnegie-Mellon University, April 13, 1988.
- Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, May 18, 1988.
- Digital Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, June 30, 1988.
- Seminar, Department of Computer Science, Imperial
College London, April 12, 1989.
- Seminar, Institut Nationale de la Recherche en Informatique et
Automatique (INRIA), Rocquencourt, France, May 5, 1989.
- Computer Science Colloquium, School of
Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, May 12, 1989.
- Seminar, Department of Computer Science, University of
Newcastle, May 21, 1989.
- Seminar, Department of Computer Science, University of
Strathclyde, Glasgow, May 23, 1989.
- Seminar, Department of Computer Science, University of
Edinburgh, May 26, 1989.
- Seminar, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent,
May 30, 1989.
- MIT Club of Northern California, Palo Alto, September
28, 1989.
On-line: First
abstract (ASCII text).
CMU version of abstract (PDF).
Later abstract (ASCII text);
(PDF version).
Presentation slides (PDF).
Notes prepared for the
talk (ASCII text);
(PDF version).
Additional slides used in some venues:
Authentication
slides (PDF).
Authentication notes (ASCII text).
Technology development
slides (PDF).
Athena application
slides (PDF).
Athena status
slides (PDF).
HP and CMU both videotaped the talk, but neither videotape seems to
be available on-line.
- James L. Pelkey
Interview of Jerome H. "Jerry" Saltzer
Computer History Museum, James L. Pelkey Collection: History of Computer Communications, Lot X5671.2010, Accession 102717242.
Interview recorded at Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 7, 1988, transcribed and edited by the Computer History Museum, 2016.
On-line:
Edited interview transcript (PDF) at the Computer History Museum Archive (open access—no fee required).
Interviewee's copy (PDF).
Also included in The History of Computer Communications (website), by James L. Pelkey
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Lessons Learned at Project Athena.
Presented at the Second SIGOPS European Workshop, September 8-10, 1986,
Amsterdam. A brief summary by Sape Mullender appeared
in Operating Systems Review 21, 1 (January 1987), pages 55-56.
On-line:
Both the abstract and
Mullender's OSR summary
of the talk may be found in the ACM Digital Library (open access—no fee required).
Author's version of the
abstract (PDF).
Notes prepared for the talk (PDF) with hand-written later additions.
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Issues of Scale at Project Athena
Presented at the First SIGOPS European Workshop on Operating Systems
in Computer Networks, January 28-30, 1984, Zurich.
Online: Notes prepared for
the talk (ASCII text).
Presentation slide (PDF).
There is a brief summary, erroneously attributed to me, of the session
in which this talk was presented. See pages 14 and 15 of the
Proceedings (of the workshop) under the session title "Large-Scale Distributed Systems", available in the
ACM Digital
Library (open access—no fee required).
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Community Networks and Interorganization links.
Talk presented at:
IBM Europe Institute 1983, Grassau, Germany,
June 29, 1983.
M.I.T. Industrial Liaison Program Symposium on
Networked Computer Systems, May 14, 1984.
IBM Systems Research Institute, New York City, March 20, 1985.
On-line: Presentation slides (PDF).
- Intriguing Ideas about Computer Systems:
Append-Only, Write-Once Storage.
Presented as part of the 1982 George Forsythe Memorial Lecture #2,
Stanford University Computer Science Department, January 27, 1982.
Online: Abstract for lecture 2 (ASCII text).
Presentation slides for this part of lecture 2 (PDF).
- Heretical Ideas about Local Networks:
Why a Ring?.
Presented
- at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, December 18, 1980.
- as part of the 1982 George Forsythe Memorial Lecture #3,
Stanford University Computer Science Department, January 29, 1982.
Online: Abstract for lecture 3 (ASCII text).
Presentation slides for this part of lecture 3 (PDF) [N.B.: most of the slides for this talk are missing].
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Technology, Bureaucracy Avoidance, and Distributed Computer
Systems.
Alternate title: Changing Technology and Distributed
System Structure.
Talk presented at:
- Mitre Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts, October 9, 1981.
- The 1982 George Forsythe Memorial Lecture #1,
Stanford University Computer Science Department, January 25, 1982.
- The First Columbian Conference on Computer Science,
Informatics, and Related Sciences, Bogota, Columbia, March 23, 1982.
- M.I.T. Industrial Liason Program Symposium
on Personal Computers, Networks, and Office Automation, Zurich,
June 8, 1981 and Paris, February 16, 1982.
- NEC Systems Laboratory, Tokyo, January 17, 1983.
An earlier version of this talk using the title
The Impact of Modern Technology on System Design
was presented at:
- National Centre for Software Development and
Computing Techniques, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay,
April 2, 1979.
- IIT Delhi, January 16, 1980.
- IIT Kanpur, January 18, 1980.
- TCS Workshop on Distributed Systems, Bombay, January 21, 1980.
- IIT Bangalore, January 28, 1980
- IIT Madras, January 30, 1980.
- Computing Society of India, Hyderabad, January
31, 1980
- Siemens Corp., Munich, June 1, 1980.
On-line: Abstract for the
Stanford lecture (ASCII text).
Presentation slides (PDF).
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Local Networking by Ring, Ethernet, Broadband, and PABX--Perspectives from the Field
Panel coordinator at the ACM 1981 Annual Conference, Los Angeles,
California, November 9-11, 1981. The panel abstract was published in the Proceedings at pages 123-124. DOI: 10.1145/800175.809852.
On-line: Panel Abstract (PDF). © ACM 1981.
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Local Area network requirements
Talk presented at
- Mitre Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts, October 9, 1981.
- MIT Industrial Liaison Program Symposium on Personal Computers,
Network, and Office Automation, Zurich, Switzerland, June 8, 1981,
and Paris, France, February 15, 1982.
- NEC Systems Laboratory, Tokyo, January 19, 1983.
On-line:
Notes for the talk (ASCII text).
MIT ILP presentation slides (PDF)
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Rings, Ethernets, and Broadband, the Underpinnings of Local
Networks
Talk presented at
- New York Academy of Sciences, New York City, May 12, 1980
- MIT Industrial Liaison Program Symposium on Personal Computers,
Network, and Office Automation, Zurich, Switzerland, June 8, 1981,
and Paris, France, February 15, 1982.
- NEC Systems Laboratory, Tokyo, January 18, 1983.
On-line: MIT ILP presentation
slides (PDF)
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Current Research Activities.
Presentation at the INRIA 1981 Workshop on the Design and Implementation
of Complete Distributed Systems, Rocquencourt, France, April 6, 1981.
On-line: Abstract (ASCII text).
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Source Routing for Campus Networks.
Talk presented
- at IFIP Working Group 6.4 International Workshop
on Local Networks, Zurich, August 27-29, 1980.
- as the second part of the 1982 George Forsythe Memorial Lecture #3,
Stanford University Computer Science Department, January 29, 1982.
On-line: Abstract of the
Stanford talk (PDF).
Presentation slides (PDF)
There is also a closely related paper.
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Commentary on Distributed Systems.
Invited comments delivered at the Seventh ACM Symposium on Operating Systems
Principles, Asilomar, California, December 11, 1979.
On-line: Presentation
slides (PDF).
Notes prepared for the talk (web page).
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Pragmatic Approaches to Obtaining Correct Operating
Systems.
Alternate titles: (1) Protecting Data—the State
of the Art.
(2) Technical Possibilities and Problems
in Protecting Data in Computer Systems
Presented at
- Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, September 20, 1976.
- Conference on Data Privacy and Data Security, Johannes Kepler
University, Linz, Austria, September 21, 1976.
- IBM Research Laboratory, Zurich, September 24, 1976.
- Department of Computer Science Colloquium, Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, New Jersey, November 11, 1976.
- Industrieanlaagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, Munich, January 10,
1977.
- Central Computer Agency, London, January 12, 1977.
On-line: Presentation slides (PDF).
Abstract for the Rutgers
talk (PDF).
See also the paper on which
these talks were based.
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Current Research on Information Protection.
Presented at
- Information Privacy and Computer Security Symposium
M.I.T. Industrial Liason Program, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 24, 1974.
- IBM Research Laboratory, Yorktown Heights, New York, July 15, 1974.
- Honeywell Symposium on Privacy & Security, Phoenix, Arizona, April 30, 1975.
Presentation slides (PDF).
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A Simple Model of Demand Paging.
Presented at
- Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan, October 6, 1972.
- Nippon Electric Company, Tokyo, October 9, 1972.
- Nippon Telephone & Telegraph Company, Tokyo, October 13, 1972.
- Fujitsu Corporation, Tokyo, October 11, 1972.
- Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tokyo, October 12, 1972.
- University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, November 16, 1972.
- Kansas City ACM Chapter meeting November 17, 1972.
- Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jersey, February 22, 1973.
- Technion, Haifa, Israel, July 9, 1973.
On-line: Abstract for Univ. of Kansas talk. The six slides used for these talks
can be found on pages 15-17 of the preprint of the
1974 paper that grew out of these talks.
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Computer Systems: Future Research Directions.
Presented at
- M.I.T. Industrial Liason Office symposium on the
Multics System, January 22, 1971.
The talk was recorded and transcribed. An edited version was
distributed locally as Multics Repository document M0125, April 2, 1971, and
after more editing published in RCA Engineer 17, 1 (June
1971) pages 23-24.
- Stanford University, October 20, 1971.
- Princeton University, November 18, 1971.
- University of Pittsburgh, jFebruary 18, 1972.
- Technion, Haifa, Israel, July 8, 1973.
On-line: Presentation
slides (PDF). Notes for talk.
M0125 edited transcript (PDF).
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The Multics Programming Environment.
Presented at
- Boston Chapter of the ACM, October 29, 1969.
- IBM Research, San Jose, California, January 5, 1970.
- University of California, Berkeley, January 7, 1970.
- IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, New York, May 22, 1970.
- M.I.T. Industrial Liason Office Symposium on
the Multics System, January 21, 1971.
- Technion, Haifa, Israel, July 8, 1973.
On-line: Presentation
slides (PDF).
Edited transcription of
beginning of symposium talk (PDF).
Rough transcription of
remainder of symposium talk (PDF).
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Organization of the Multics Supervisor.
Presented at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New
Jersey, May 3, 1967.
On-line: Abstract (ASCII text).
Presentation slides (PDF).
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Multics System: MIT のタイムシェアリング・システム (Multics System:
MIT's Time-Sharing System)
A series of eight lectures about Multics sponsored by 電子工業振興協会 (the Japan
Electronic Industry Development Association), Tokyo, August 16-24,
1966.
On-line: Notes of the first
lecture (PDF) by Hideo Aiso (in English). On pages 10 and 11 (PDF pages 11 and 12) are titles of the remaining seven lectures.
Visual aids (PDF). An
attendee copied every chalkboard diagram used in the talks.
Q and A (PDF) edited by Hideo Aiso
(in English). Answers to questions posted by attendees.