In Memoriam: Peter G. Neumann (opens in new tab)

One of the great applied computer scientists, Peter G. Neumann, died on May 17. There have already been obits . I knew Peter since at least 1992, and I’m honored that he considered me one of his colleagues and friends, even staying overnight at my house once. And that in itself shows another facet of his personality—while he had very strong opinions on technical subjects (and other things—for example, he did not think that Shakespeare wrote the the plays generally attributed to him), and was ...