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'''Robert L. Patrick''' |
'''Robert L. Patrick''' was a computer scientist who worked on early [[operating system]]s.<ref name="spdc"/> |
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Patrick worked as a consultant for Rand from 1959 until about 1992.<ref>{{cite book|quote=Robert L. Patrick has a special place in the history of computing at RAND. At one point, Paul Armer tried to hire him for RAND. Patrick declined saying he wanted to be a consultant but that if it failed, he would join RAND. Armer signed him on as a consultant in 1959, a role he retained for 33 years. He was, so to speak, truly an "outside insider." ... Bob Patrick and Willis Ware lived in different worlds but met frequently to discuss trends and the computing outlook in general. Bob worked in industry and was a RAND consultant one day per week.|first=Willis H.|last=Ware|author-link=Willis Ware|publisher=RAND Corporation|isbn=978-0-8330-4513-3|year=2008|title=RAND and the information evolution : a history in essays and vignettes}}</ref> |
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Patrick contributed to mainframe operating systems in the series that culminated in the creation of [[OS/360]].<ref name="spdc">http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/os/dc.html</ref> The series started in 1956 with the [[GM-NAA I/O|GM-NAA input/output system]], progressing through the [[SHARE Operating System|SHARE Operating System (SOS)]] (1959), [[IBSYS]] (1960), the Direct Couple, and finally [[OS/360]] c.1965-1966.<ref name="spdc"/> |
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Patrick helped to organize the conference session that culminated in the publication of [[Security and privacy in computer systems]].<ref>{{cite book|quote=In the 1950s and 1960s, the prominent conference gathering places for practitioners and users of computer technology were the twice-yearly Joint Computer Conferences (JCCs)... From this milieu, the topic of computer security—later to be called information-system security and currently also referred to as protection of the national information infrastructure—moved from the world of classified defense interests into public view for the first time. |
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A few people—Bob Patrick, Pat Haverty, and Willis Ware among others—all then at the RAND Corporation ... had, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, been talking about the growing dependence of the country and its institutions on computer technology. It concerned them that the installed systems might not be able to protect themselves and their data against intrusive and destructive attacks. While there had been a few papers at the conferences on social effects of burgeoning computer technology, they decided that it was time to more directly bring the security aspect of computer systems to the attention of the technology and user communities. |
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A fortuitous enabling event was the development within the National Security Agency (NSA) of a remote-access time-sharing system with a full set of security-access controls, running on a UNIVAC 494 machine, and serving terminals and users not only within the headquarters building at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, but also worldwide. Willis Ware knew of the existence and details of the system. |
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It proved possible to have a paper about the NSA system presented in a public forum, and, with two others from RAND to help—Harold Petersen and Rein Turn—plus Bernard Peters of NSA, a group of papers was organized and offered to the SJCC conference management as a ready-made additional paper session to be chaired by Ware. The conference accepted the offer, and the session was presented at the Atlantic City (N.J.) Convention Hall in 1967. |
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On an independent thread of the story, speaking in a light vein, Ware observed that, “in a city far, far away on the banks of the Mississippi River—St. Louis to be precise—there was installed a mighty and expensive ‘big-iron’ computer, naturally painted blue.” |
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In an effort to accommodate the costliness of its installation, the defense contractor had asked permission to commingle classified work for a fighter aircraft with unclassified work in a single computer functioning in a remote-access mode. The idea was to attract local businesses to use the system via remote job-entry terminals. |
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Driven by this request, DoD, acting through ARPA and later the Defense Science Board (DSB), organized a committee and requested that RAND provide the leadership. Chaired by Willis Ware, it was to study the issue of security controls for computer systems. The intent was to produce a document that could be the basis for formulating a DoD policy position on the matter. |
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The report of the committee was initially published as a classified document and was formally presented to the sponsor, DSB, in January 1970. It was later declassified and republished by RAND in October 1979 (Ware, 1979). It was widely circulated and became nicknamed “the Ware report.”|first=Willis H.|last=Ware|author-link=Willis Ware|publisher=RAND Corporation|isbn=978-0-8330-4513-3|year=2008|title=RAND and the information evolution : a history in essays and vignettes}}</ref> |
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In 2006, Patrick donated a number of documents to the [[Computer History Museum]].<ref>https://computerhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/core-2006.pdf</ref> |
In 2006, Patrick donated a number of documents to the [[Computer History Museum]].<ref>https://computerhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/core-2006.pdf</ref> |
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==Bibliography== |
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* {{cite|first=Robert L. |last=Patrick|title=Computers and information flow|year=1963|url=https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ny960kv5488/ny960kv5488.pdf}} |
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==References== |
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==External links== |
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Latest revision as of 08:53, 19 December 2020
Robert L. Patrick was a computer scientist who worked on early operating systems.[1]
Patrick worked as a consultant for Rand from 1959 until about 1992.[2]
Patrick contributed to mainframe operating systems in the series that culminated in the creation of OS/360.[1] The series started in 1956 with the GM-NAA input/output system, progressing through the SHARE Operating System (SOS) (1959), IBSYS (1960), the Direct Couple, and finally OS/360 c.1965-1966.[1]
Patrick helped to organize the conference session that culminated in the publication of Security and privacy in computer systems.[3]
In 2006, Patrick donated a number of documents to the Computer History Museum.[4]
Bibliography
[edit]- Patrick, Robert L. (1963), Computers and information flow (PDF)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/os/dc.html
- ^ Ware, Willis H. (2008). RAND and the information evolution : a history in essays and vignettes. RAND Corporation. ISBN 978-0-8330-4513-3.
Robert L. Patrick has a special place in the history of computing at RAND. At one point, Paul Armer tried to hire him for RAND. Patrick declined saying he wanted to be a consultant but that if it failed, he would join RAND. Armer signed him on as a consultant in 1959, a role he retained for 33 years. He was, so to speak, truly an "outside insider." ... Bob Patrick and Willis Ware lived in different worlds but met frequently to discuss trends and the computing outlook in general. Bob worked in industry and was a RAND consultant one day per week.
- ^ Ware, Willis H. (2008). RAND and the information evolution : a history in essays and vignettes. RAND Corporation. ISBN 978-0-8330-4513-3.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the prominent conference gathering places for practitioners and users of computer technology were the twice-yearly Joint Computer Conferences (JCCs)... From this milieu, the topic of computer security—later to be called information-system security and currently also referred to as protection of the national information infrastructure—moved from the world of classified defense interests into public view for the first time. A few people—Bob Patrick, Pat Haverty, and Willis Ware among others—all then at the RAND Corporation ... had, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, been talking about the growing dependence of the country and its institutions on computer technology. It concerned them that the installed systems might not be able to protect themselves and their data against intrusive and destructive attacks. While there had been a few papers at the conferences on social effects of burgeoning computer technology, they decided that it was time to more directly bring the security aspect of computer systems to the attention of the technology and user communities. A fortuitous enabling event was the development within the National Security Agency (NSA) of a remote-access time-sharing system with a full set of security-access controls, running on a UNIVAC 494 machine, and serving terminals and users not only within the headquarters building at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, but also worldwide. Willis Ware knew of the existence and details of the system. It proved possible to have a paper about the NSA system presented in a public forum, and, with two others from RAND to help—Harold Petersen and Rein Turn—plus Bernard Peters of NSA, a group of papers was organized and offered to the SJCC conference management as a ready-made additional paper session to be chaired by Ware. The conference accepted the offer, and the session was presented at the Atlantic City (N.J.) Convention Hall in 1967. On an independent thread of the story, speaking in a light vein, Ware observed that, "in a city far, far away on the banks of the Mississippi River—St. Louis to be precise—there was installed a mighty and expensive 'big-iron' computer, naturally painted blue." In an effort to accommodate the costliness of its installation, the defense contractor had asked permission to commingle classified work for a fighter aircraft with unclassified work in a single computer functioning in a remote-access mode. The idea was to attract local businesses to use the system via remote job-entry terminals. Driven by this request, DoD, acting through ARPA and later the Defense Science Board (DSB), organized a committee and requested that RAND provide the leadership. Chaired by Willis Ware, it was to study the issue of security controls for computer systems. The intent was to produce a document that could be the basis for formulating a DoD policy position on the matter. The report of the committee was initially published as a classified document and was formally presented to the sponsor, DSB, in January 1970. It was later declassified and republished by RAND in October 1979 (Ware, 1979). It was widely circulated and became nicknamed "the Ware report."
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