Highland@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL (Dr. Harold Joseph Highland, FICS) (10/10/90)
Note that Thom is doing an article about computer viruses and wants info. > I'm doing a column for a magazine about information on worms, viruses, > and security. I'll be talking about > > Computer Security Risk Management/ Potter & Palmer > Computer Virus Handbook/ Fics Have had my name listed as Hiland, Hylan, etc. ["Red Mike" Hylan, mayor of New York City in the '20s was a distant relative] but this is first time I have been called **** Fics ****. Thom better look at the book I sent to him several months ago. The FICS FOLLOWS my name. It stands for "Fellow of the Irish Computer Society." Been a Fellow since 1985 and probably the only one in the States who was born here and still lives here. Have about 30 books written in past several years about viruses as well as a file draw about 24-inches deep with newspaper and magazine clips. Plan to donate the mess to a local university in the next year or two. My library getting too big with materials on other areas of computer security, particularly encryption. Retired as Distinguished Professor from SUNY a decade ago. Gave up as Editor-in-Chief of Computers & Security, which I started nine years ago, this past January. I still write my column, Bits & Bytes, regularly. But at 73 plan to retire again in the near future and write scientific children's books as I did in the late fifties and early sixties.