Peter G.
Neumann, an American computer science researcher, died on May 17, 2026, at age 93 from complications from a fall. He worked on the Multics operating system in the 1960s and edited the RISKS Digest columns for ACM Software Engineering Notes and Communications of the ACM.
Neumann founded ACM SIGSOFT and was a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE and AAAS. He held three degrees from Harvard University: an A.B. in mathematics in 1954, an S.M. in applied mathematics in 1955 and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics and science in 1961. He also held a Fulbright scholarship in Germany from 1958 to 1960.
Peter G. Neumann, 93, American computer science researcher, complications from a fall.