Robert M. Graham (1929 in

Michigan Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the ...

, US – January 2, 2020) was a cybersecurity researcher

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and Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...

. He was born to a Scottish emigrant. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. While working at the UofM's Computing Center he co-authored two

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s, GAT for the

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and MAD for the IBM 704/709/7090. In 1963 he moved to MIT to participate in the development of

Multics Multics ("Multiplexed Information and Computing Service") is an influential early time-sharing operating system based on the concept of a single-level memory.Dennis M. Ritchie, "The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System", Communications of t ...

, one of the first

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computer

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. He had responsibility for protection, dynamic linking, and other key system kernel areas. Later worked at

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, and the

. Officially retired in 1996, but continued to teach until the end of 2003. In 1996 he was inducted as a

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. He is the author of numerous books and professional articles.ACM author page for Robert M. Graham
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Robert M. Graham Home Page
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