Nationality Dutch Fields Computer Science | Role Programmer Name Wietse Venema | |
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Institutions Thomas J. Watson Research CenterEindhoven University of Technology Books Computer Forenisics Library Awards Award for Advancement of Free Software | ||
Secure programming traps and pitfalls wietse venema
Wietse Zweitze Venema (born 1951) is a Dutch programmer and physicist best known for writing the Postfix email system. He also wrote TCP Wrapper and collaborated with Dan Farmer to produce the computer security tools SATAN and The Coroner's Toolkit.
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- Secure programming traps and pitfalls wietse venema
- Postfix recent development and outlook mk4 wietse venema
- Biography
- Awards
- References

Postfix recent development and outlook mk4 wietse venema
Biography
He studied physics at the University of Groningen, continuing there to get a PhD in 1984 with the dissertation Left-right symmetry in nuclear beta decay. He spent 12 years at Eindhoven University as a systems architect in the Mathematics and Computer Science department, and spent part of this time writing tools for Electronic Data Interchange. Since emigrating to the U.S. in 1996 and until 2015, he has been working for the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York State. On March 24, 2015, he announced he was leaving IBM for Google.
Awards
Awards Venema has received for his work: