James Gillogly
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James J. Gillogly is an American computer scientist and cryptographer.
Biography
Gillogly has had a long history with computers. He wrote a chess-playing program in the Fortran programming language in 1970, and in 1972, he ported the code for the Adventure game from Fortran to C.
He graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1978, receiving a Ph.D. in computer science. His dissertation was on "Performance Analysis of the Technology Program".[link]
Gillogly worked as a computer scientist at RAND, specializing in system design and development, and computer security. He has written multiple articles about technology and cryptography, was the editor of the "Cipher Exchange" column for The Cryptogram, and president of the American Cryptogram Association.
He is best known for his work solving or debunking some of the world's most famous unsolved codes. In 1980 he wrote a paper debunking the Beale Ciphers, and he received international media attention for being the first person to publicly solve parts 1-3 on the CIA's Kryptos sculpture in 1999. He also coordinates a large mailing list about the ciphers in the Voynich Manuscript. On the PBS website, they report that he has been called "arguably the best non-government cryptanalyst in the U.S." in the field of classical (historical) cryptosystems.[link]
Among his other hobbies, Gillogly is a singer, and has sung both at renaissance faires and with a chamber music group in Carnegie Hall.
He presently splits his time between California and Hawaii.
See also
Selected articles
- [MAX: A FORTRAN Chess Player"], 1970, RAND Paper
- [Exploratory modeling: search through spaces of computational experiments"], 1994, RAND Reprint
- ["The impact of response options and location in a microcomputer interview on d rinking drivers' alcohol use self-reports"], 1990, Rand Corporation, co-written with Ron D. Hay,s Robert M. Bell, Laural A. Hill, Matthew W. Lewis, Grant N. Marshall, Ronald Nicholas, Gordon Marlatt
- "The Technology Chess Program", 1972, Artificial Intelligence, Volume 3, pp. 145-163 [link]
- ["The Beale Cipher: A Dissenting Opinion"], April 1980, Cryptologia, Volume 4, Number 2
- ["Ciphertext-Only Cryptanalysis of Enigma"], October 1995, Cryptologia, Volume 19, Number 4
Other references
- [Articles by Gillogly at rand.org], 1970-1994
- [Alcohol and Alcoholism articles] at Oxford University Press
- ["Decoding Nazi Secrets"], NOVA Online, PBS
External links
- ["Solving the Enigma of Kryptos"], January 21, 2005, Wired News
- ["Cracking the Code of a CIA Sculpture"], July 1999, Washington Post
- ["Interest grows in solving cryptic CIA puzzle after link to Da Vinci Code"], June 11, 2005, The Guardian
- ["Swedish team beats code to win 10,000 pounds"], October 12, 2000
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