Editing Mike Muuss (section)

==Career==
A graduate of [[Johns Hopkins University]], Muuss was a senior scientist specializing in geometric [[solid modeling]], [[Ray tracing (graphics)|ray-tracing]], [[Multiple instruction, multiple data|MIMD]] architectures and digital [[computer networks]] at the United States [[Army Research Laboratory]] at [[Aberdeen Proving Ground]], [[Maryland]] when he died. He wrote a number of software packages (including [[BRL-CAD]]) and network tools (including [[ttcp]] and the concept of the [[default route]] or "default gateway") and contributed to many others (including [[BIND]]).<ref name="isc">
 {{cite web
|author= Internet Systems Consortium
|author-link= Internet Systems Consortium
|title= History of BIND software development
|url=https://www.isc.org/software/bind/history
|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081118071434/https://www.isc.org/software/bind/history |archive-date=2008-11-18 |access-date=23 August 2013
}}</ref>

However, the thousand-line ping, which he wrote in December 1983 while working at the [[Ballistic Research Laboratory]], is the program for which he is most remembered. Due to its usefulness, ping has been implemented on a large number of [[operating systems]], initially [[Berkeley Software Distribution]] (BSD) and [[Unix]], but later others including [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] and [[Mac OS X]].

In 1993, the [[USENIX]] Association gave a Lifetime Achievement Award (''Flame'') to the [[Computer Systems Research Group]] at [[University of California, Berkeley]], honoring 180 individuals, including Muuss, who contributed to the CSRG's [[Berkeley Software Distribution|4.4BSD-Lite]] release.

Muuss is mentioned in two books, ''[[The Cuckoo's Egg]]'' ({{ISBN|0-7434-1146-3}}) and ''Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier'' ({{ISBN|0-684-81862-0}}), for his role in tracking down [[Hacker (computer security)|crackers]]. He is also mentioned in [[Peter Salus]]'s ''A Quarter Century of UNIX'' and a link to his website’s ping page is included in ''How Linux Works'' ({{ISBN|1718500408}}).

Muuss died in an automobile collision on [[Interstate 95 in Maryland|Interstate 95]] on November 20, 2000.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ping127001.com/pingpage/muuss.htm |newspaper=Baltimore Sun |date=November 25, 2000 |title=Michael John Muuss, 42, computer expert whose software had key role in Internet |access-date=23 August 2013}}</ref> The '''Michael J. Muuss Research Award''', set up by friends and family of Muuss, memorializes him at [[Johns Hopkins University]].<ref>
 {{cite web
|author = Johns Hopkins University
|title = Awards
|url = http://www.jhu.edu/~admis/catalog/misc/scholarships_awards_prizes.pdf
|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031122182831/http://www.jhu.edu/~admis/catalog/misc/scholarships_awards_prizes.pdf |archive-date=2003-11-22 |access-date=23 August 2013}}</ref>