birth_date: 1942-01-01 00:00:00
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name: Thomas J. Ryan
about: Thomas Joseph Ryan, born 1942, is a Canadian author.Ryan moved into the USA and worked as a computer troubleshooter. Living in Garden Grove, California in 1977 he wrote his most known work, the science fiction novel The Adolescence of P-1. The story is one of the earliest fictional depictions of a computer virus and how it intelligently can spread through a computer network.