Evi Nemeth

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Evi Nemeth (born June 7, 1940 , † after June 4, 2013 , Tasman Sea (lost)) was an American mathematician, engineer and university teacher. For almost 30 years she was also the author of the most important Unix and Linux system manuals, the so-called "Bibles", which were published in large numbers and in numerous languages. She is known as the "mother of system administration".

Life

Nemeth graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1961 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and received his PhD from the University of Waterloo in Ontario in 1971 . This was followed by teaching activities at Florida Atlantic University and the State University of New York . Since 1980 she has been an associate professor in the computer science faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder . Between 1982 and 1986 she was responsible for the computer equipment of her college, among other things significantly involved in the supply of UNIX software and the security of the domain colorado.edu .

In 1984 she was able to identify security problems in the Diffie-Hellman key exchange , which plays an important role in modern cryptography.

Since 1998, she has worked closely with the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) at the University of California in San Diego , including as a visiting professor during a sabbatical . There she was involved in numerous publications on the analysis and stability of name servers as a critical infrastructure of the Internet, which the center carried out for ICANN. In addition, she developed an online platform to enable teachers to keep up with current technology developments.

In addition to her academic activities, she was involved in the Internet Society and for the United Nations Development Program for the introduction of Internet technologies in developing countries and in the USENIX community. She received the LISA Outstanding Achievement Award in 1995 for her achievements in the field of system administration and her commitment to students.

In 2001, Nemeth retired from the University of Colorado. She bought the sailing boat Wonderland and traveled the seas with it for years. For her participation in two editions of the UNIX manual during this time, she anchored in the vicinity of WLAN to upload her chapters.

In the summer of 2013 she wanted to cross the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand with other people on the historic schooner The Niña . After a storm, the last message from Nemeth came on the radio on June 4, 2013; on July 5, the New Zealand authorities officially abandoned the search for the boat and crew.

Evi Nemeth was mother of one son and grandmother of two grandchildren.

Awards

  • 1984 — Best Paper Award, International Parallel Processing Conference, Chicago, August, 1984
  • 1995 — USENIX / LISA Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 1999 — Top 25 Women on the Web Award
  • 2007 — Distinguished Engineering Honoree from Colorado University Boulder
  • 2004 - 5th Annual Telluride Tech Fest Honoree
  • 2018 — NCWIT Pioneer in Tech Award

Publications

  • with R. Mullin, N. Weidenhofer: Will Public Key Cryptosystems Live up to Their Expectations? HEP Implementation of the Discrete Log Codebreaker . In: Proceedings of the International Parallel Processing Conference . 1984, p. 193-196 .
  • Unix System Administration Handbook, 1. – 4. Edition 1989, 1995, 2000
  • Linux Administration Handbook , 2002, 2006
  • Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook , 2010

Web links

  • CAIDA Papers. (List of publications at CAIDA). In: caida.org. Accessed December 1, 2019 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Evi Nemeth. NCWIT Pioneer in Tech Award Recipient. In: ncwit.org. National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), accessed December 1, 2019 .
  2. ^ Peter H. Salus: A Brief History of System Administration . In: UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook . 5th edition. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2017, ISBN 978-0-13-427755-4 , pp. 1160 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Distinguished Engineering Alumni. (No longer available online.) In: cs.colorado.edu. Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado Boulder, 2007, archived from the original ; accessed on October 18, 2016 (English).
  4. ↑ with R. Mullin, N. Weidenhofer: Will Public Key Cryptosystems Live up to Their Expectations? HEP Implementation of the Discrete Log Codebreaker . In: Proceedings of the International Parallel Processing Conference . 1984, p. 193-196 .
  5. ↑ CAIDA: Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis: Staff Profiles - Evi Nemeth. In: caida.org. Accessed December 1, 2019 .
  6. ^ Rikki Endsley: Tribute to Evi Nemeth and Call for Award Nominations | USENIX. 2013, accessed December 2, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b LISA Outstanding Achievement Award. January 17, 2012, accessed December 2, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Dan Mackin; Evi Nemeth; Trent R. Hein; Ben Whaley; Garth Snyder: Tribute to Evi . In: UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook . 5th edition. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2017, ISBN 978-0-13-427755-4 , pp. xxxii – xxxiii .
  9. ^ Iain Thomson: Godmother of Unix admins Evi Nemeth presumed lost at sea. In: theregister.co.uk. July 5, 2013, accessed December 1, 2019 .
  10. ^ Evi Nemeth »TES S / V Schooner Nina Search. Accessed December 2, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Top 25 Women on the Web. (No longer available online.) San Francisco Women on the Web, archived from the original on December 12, 1998 ; accessed on December 1, 2019 .
  12. ^ Past Recipients. May 23, 2016, accessed December 2, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Past Honorees. In: Telluride Tech Festival. Accessed December 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Nemeth, Evi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician, author of the UNIX manuals
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1940
DATE OF DEATH after June 4, 2013
Place of death Tasman Sea