A few thoughts remembering Peter Neumann:
Peter shaped my professional career since the start.
Peter epitomized and modeled the idea that a computer scientist should not “stay in a lane,” but rather be engaged with the impacts of our work, and he did so so effortlessly that to this day I’m surprised when I hear someone say dismiss impacts of their work by saying “that’s not a computer science problem.”
While I was at Zero-Knowledge Systems, Peter was on our advisory board and I have fond memories of many dinners, and less fond memories of him critiquing our system design. Those memories are unhappy not because he was wrong, but because once he made his points, they were so obviously right that it was embarrassing to have missed them.
(and more in the post)
https://shostack.org/blog/remembering-peter-neumann/
Peter shaped my professional career since the start.
Peter epitomized and modeled the idea that a computer scientist should not “stay in a lane,” but rather be engaged with the impacts of our work, and he did so so effortlessly that to this day I’m surprised when I hear someone say dismiss impacts of their work by saying “that’s not a computer science problem.”
While I was at Zero-Knowledge Systems, Peter was on our advisory board and I have fond memories of many dinners, and less fond memories of him critiquing our system design. Those memories are unhappy not because he was wrong, but because once he made his points, they were so obviously right that it was embarrassing to have missed them.
(and more in the post)
https://shostack.org/blog/remembering-peter-neumann/