Eric Allman
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Eric Allman (born September 2, 1955 in El Cerrito , California ) is an American computer scientist, programmer of the sendmail software and is considered the father of the modern Internet - e-mail .
During his employment at the University of California at Berkeley in the 1970s and 1980s, he developed the software delivermail, the predecessor of sendmail .
He began his studies at the university in 1973, the same year that Unix came to the university from AT&T . Since the source code of Unix was more or less free, extensions to Unix and new software were created from the start. This included delivermail from Allman. In 1981 delivermail became the more familiar name sendmail , and the following year it became an integral part of Berkeley Software Distribution . Even today, sendmail is still used on many Unix and Linux systems despite numerous criticisms . Further developments from Allman that are still popular today are vacation , syslog , tset and trek .
Allman is Chief Science Officer of Sendmail Inc. , a company he co-founded in Emeryville , California in 1998 , which provides commercial support and advanced commercial solutions based on sendmail .
In order to further develop e-mail technology, Allman advocates the spread of Domain Sender Authentication and is co-author of the standardization of DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) .
Allman is open about his homosexuality (quote: "It is a kind of perverse satisfaction to know that it is basically impossible to send hate mail through the Internet without it being touched by a gay program." ).
Web links
- You've got sendmail , interview at salon.com , December 1, 1998 (English)
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| SURNAME | Allman, Eric |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd September 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | El Cerrito , California |