Mark Ludwig

Mark Allen Ludwig was a physicist from the U.S and author of books on computer viruses and artificial life. Ludwig finished his undergraduate study in two years at MIT. He held a PhD in physics from Caltech. He died from cancer at age 51.^[1]

Work

Ludwig had his own virus-writing periodical, Computer Virus Developments Quarterly. He also held the First International Virus Writing Competition, which promised a monetary reward of $200 for the creator of the smallest DOS-based, parasitic file infecter.^[2]

His Little Black Book of Computer Viruses fully describes a sophisticated MS-DOS executable virus.^[3] The second, Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses contains the source code of two UNIX companion viruses written in C^[4] In his book Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution: The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses he argued for Intelligent design.^[5]

Bibliography

• The Christian Revolutionary (2009)
• True Christian Government: The Facts About What The Bible Has To Say About Government (2009)
• The Third Paradigm: Democracy Is Headed The Way Of The Monarch By Divine Right. What Will Replace It? (2009)
• The Third Paradigm: God and Government in the 21st Century" (1997)
• The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses (1996)
• The Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses (1995)
• Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution (1993)
• The Little Black Book of Email Viruses (2002)

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