Wietse Venema - Definition and Overview

Dr. Wietse Zweitze Venema is a Dutch programmer and physicist best known for writing the Postfix mail system. He has also written numerous other security related tools, such as The Coroners Toolkit and TCP Wrapper.

Biography

He studied physics at the University of Groningen, graduating with a PhD. He spent 12 years at Eindhoven University as a Systems Architect in the Mathematics and Computing department, writing tools for Electronic Data Interchange. Since emmigrating to the USA in 1996 he has been working for the IBM T J Watson Research Center in New York.

In his spare time he enjoys hiking and cycling.

Awards

Wietse has received numerous awards for his work, including:

• Security Summit Hall of Fame Award (July 1998)
• SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award (November 1999)
• NLUUG Award (November 2000)

External links

• Personal Website (http://www.porcupine.org/wietse/)
• Postfix Homepage (http://www.postfix.org)
• The Coroners Toolkit (http://www.porcupine.org/forensics/)
• TCP Wrapper (ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_7.6.tar.gz)
• NLUUG (http://www.nluug.nl) - Netherlands UNIX Users Group