Talk:Tom Maddox

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[edit] Coinage of ICE

Just a note from the subject about the claim on the Tom Maddox (stub) page. It contains this statement:

"Maddox coined the term Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics on Usenet."

That's not true. I coined the term in the manuscript of an unpublished story that he showed to William Gibson at a science fiction convention in Portland, Oregon. Gibson asked permission to "steal" the acronym, and I agreed and didn't think much more about it until Neuromancer was published, where I was acknowledged as the creator of ICE.

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Are you Tom Maddox? I'm a bit confused by your use of pronouns in the comment above. You wrote: "I coined the term in the manuscript of an unpublished story that he showed to William Gibson at a science fiction convention in Portland, Oregon." Who is "he" in that sentence?

—Lowellian (reply) 07:22, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi, oops, sorry about the pronoun confusion on the entry. I'm the guy all right. I'm not sure what the convention is here. Given that I was making a first-person claim, should it be "Tom Maddox says that he ..."? That would be fine. The main thing is, I didn't want to be vanity editing my own page, but I do have first-person knowledge of the statement. Not sure what to do about that. Thanks, Tom Tom Maddox 19:01, 13 December 2005 (UTC)