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is an American physicist and computer security expert. He is known for helping the FBI track and arrest hacker Kevin Mitnick. Shimomura is currently CEO and CTO of Neofocal Systems.〔(LED Japan Conference, October 2013 )〕〔(''"Led by computer whiz Tsutomu Shimomura, Neofocal raises $9M..."'' ), Jan 23 2015, geekwire.com〕 ''Takedown'', his 1996 book on the subject with journalist John Markoff, was later adapted for the screen in ''Track Down'' in 2000. ==Biography== Born in Japan, Shimomura is the son of Osamu Shimomura, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, and attended Princeton High School.〔(Week 10: "Hacking" ), North Carolina State University. Accessed October 23, 2007. "Shimomura was born in 1964 in Nagoya, Japan.... He got into an antiestablishment group at Princeton High School and got expelled for it, even though he had won a local math/science contest."〕 At Caltech he studied under Nobel laureate Richard Feynman. After Caltech, he went on to work at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he continued his hands-on education in the position of staff physicist with Brosl Hasslacher and others on subjects such as Lattice Gas Automata. In 1989, he became a research scientist in computational physics at the University of California, San Diego, and senior fellow at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Shimomura also became a noted computer security expert, working for the National Security Agency. In 1992, he testified before Congress on issues regarding the privacy and security (or lack thereof) on cellular telephones. He is best known for events in 1995, when he assisted with tracking down the computer hacker Kevin Mitnick. In that year Shimomura also received prank calls which popularized the phrase "My kung fu is stronger than yours", equating it with hacking. Shimomura and journalist John Markoff wrote a book, ''Takedown'', about the pursuit, and the book was later adapted into a movie of the same name. Shimomura, himself, appeared in a brief cameo in the movie. The Mitnick case also inspired ''the Cyberthief and the Samurai'', by Jeff Goodell. Shimomura worked for Sun Microsystems during the late 1990s. Author Bruce Sterling described his first meeting with Shimomura in the documentary ''Freedom Downtime'': 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tsutomu Shimomura」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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