Alma mater MIT, Caltech Name Mark Ludwig | Role Author Fields Computer virus | |
Known for Computer virus research Residence Tucson, Arizona, United States Books The giant black book of computer viruses Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology | ||
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Mark Allen Ludwig was a physicist from the U.S and author of books on computer viruses and artificial life. Ludwig finished his undergraduate study in two years at MIT. He held a PhD in physics from Caltech. He died from cancer at age 51.
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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.
His Little Black Book of Computer Viruses fully describes a sophisticated MS-DOS executable virus. The second, Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses contains the source code of two UNIX companion viruses written in C In his book Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution: The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses he argued for Intelligent design.