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Clifford Stoll | |
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| Born | Clifford Paul Stoll Jr. June 4, 1950 Buffalo, New York, U.S. |
| Other names | Cliff |
| Alma mater | SUNY Buffalo (BS) University of Arizona (PhD) |
| Call sign | K7TA (previously WN2PSX) [1][2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy |
| Thesis | Polarimetry of Jupiter at large phase angles (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor | Martin Tomasko |
Clifford Paul "Cliff" Stoll (born June 4, 1950) is an American astronomer, author and teacher.
He is best known for his investigation in 1986, while working as a system administrator at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, that led to the capture of hacker Markus Hess,[3] and for Stoll's subsequent book The Cuckoo's Egg, in which he details the investigation.
Stoll has written three books as well as articles in the non-specialist press (e.g., in Scientific American) on the Curta mechanical calculator and the slide rule, and is a frequent contributor to the mathematics YouTube channel Numberphile.
- ^ "K7TA".
- ^ "The Klein Bottle Guy (with Cliff Stoll) - Numberphile Podcast". YouTube.
- ^ Гребенников, Вадим (Grebennikov, Vadim) (2018). Радиоразведка России. Перехват информации [Radio Intelligence of Russia. Interception of information] (in Russian). Издательские решения (Rideró) via loveread.ec. ISBN 9785449359568. Archived from the original on October 18, 2024. Retrieved October 21, 2024.
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