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Eric Allman: Works, Science & Companies

Eric Paul Allman (born September 2, 1955) is an American computer programmer who developed sendmail and its precursor delivermail in the late 1970s and early 1980s at UC Berkeley. In 1998, Allman and Greg Olson co-founded the company Sendmail, Inc.

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Eric Allman topic overview

The analysis highlights Works, Science and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around Eric Allman.

Related topics
25
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
30
Extracted relationships
24
Concept neighborhoods
18
Bridge connections
30

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Sendmail and Syslog · 11 topics
Other contributions · 5 topics
Overview · 4 topics
Education and training · 3 topics
Personal life · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Known for
Sendmail, Syslog
Occupation
Programmer
Education
University of California, Berkeley (BS, MS)
Born
(1955-09-02) September 2, 1955 (age 70) El Cerrito, California, U.S.
Employer
Sendmail
Spouse
Marshall Kirk McKusick

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Education and training

Sendmail and Syslog

Other contributions

Personal life

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Eric Allman connects Entity context

The extracted context around Eric Allman shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Eric Allman → BerkeleyFormer, Biography, Chief Science Officer, December, Homepage, Salon, Sendmail, Wayback Machine, You've Another extracted example is Eric Allman → Allman, Berkeley, BSD, California, Marshall Kirk McKusick, McKusick, October, The. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Eric Allman

Top relations

related to External links · 9
Eric Allman → BerkeleyFormer, Biography, Chief Science Officer, December, Homepage, Salon, Sendmail, Wayback Machine, You've
related to Personal life · 8
Eric Allman → Allman, Berkeley, BSD, California, Marshall Kirk McKusick, McKusick, October, The
Born · 1
Eric Allman → (1955-09-02) September 2, 1955 (age 70) El Cerrito, California, U.S.
Education · 1
Eric Allman → University of California, Berkeley (BS, MS)
Employer · 1
Eric Allman → Sendmail
Known for · 1
Eric Allman → Sendmail, Syslog
Occupation · 1
Eric Allman → Programmer
Spouse · 1
Eric Allman → Marshall Kirk McKusick
Title · 1
Eric Allman → Chief Science Officer

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

sendmail berkeley allman uc syslog california born internet bsd 1998 unix mta programmer delivermail known mckusick education computing used later

Eric Allman relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 24 structured relationships around Eric Allman. Examples in this analysis include Eric Allman → Born → (1955-09-02) September 2, 1955 (age 70) El Cerrito, California, U.S. and Eric Allman → Education → University of California, Berkeley (BS, MS). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Eric AllmanBorn(1955-09-02) September 2, 1955 (age 70) El Cerrito, California, U.S.1.00infobox
Eric AllmanEducationUniversity of California, Berkeley (BS, MS)1.00infobox
Eric AllmanEmployerSendmail1.00infobox
Eric AllmanKnown forSendmail, Syslog1.00infobox
Eric AllmanOccupationProgrammer1.00infobox
Eric AllmanSpouseMarshall Kirk McKusick1.00infobox
Eric AllmanTitleChief Science Officer1.00infobox
Eric Allmanrelated to External linksHomepage0.60section
Eric Allmanrelated to External linksBerkeleyFormer0.60section
Eric Allmanrelated to External linksSendmail0.60section
Eric Allmanrelated to External linksWayback Machine0.60section
Eric Allmanrelated to External linksYou've0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Eric Allman bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include California, Chief and Delivermail. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Eric Allman
    • California
    • Chief
    • Delivermail
    • Early
    • Officer
    • Programmer
    • Science
    • Born
    • Eric
    • Greg
    • Inc
    • Kirk
  • eric allman
    • Sendmail
    • California
    • Berkeley
    • Chief
    • Delivermail
    • Early
    • Officer
    • Programmer
    • Science
    • Born
    • Eric
    • Greg
  • sendmail
    • Chief
    • Greg
    • Inc
    • Officer
    • Olson
    • Science
    • Syslog
    • Work
    • Became
    • California
    • Known
    • Mta
  • uc berkeley
    • Uc
    • Unix
    • Sendmail
    • Born
    • Chief
    • Early
    • Eric
    • Kirk
    • Marshall
    • Officer
    • Programmer
    • Science
  • sendmail, inc.
    • Olson
    • Work
    • California
    • Chief
    • Greg
    • Inc
    • Officer
    • Science
    • Sendmail
    • Syslog
    • Became
    • Known
  • berkeley software distribution
    • Uc
    • Unix
    • Sendmail
    • Born
    • Chief
    • Early
    • Eric
    • Kirk
    • Marshall
    • Officer
    • Programmer
    • Science
  • allman indent style
    • Sendmail
    • California
    • Berkeley
    • Born
    • Chief
    • Early
    • Eric
    • Greg
    • Inc
    • Kirk
    • Marshall
    • Officer
  • berkeley, california
    • Kirk
    • Marshall
    • Work
    • Mckusick
    • Uc
    • Cerrito
    • Education
    • El
    • Unix
    • Sendmail
    • Chief
    • Early

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Eric Allman, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Eric Allman with Sendmail and Syslog. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Eric AllmanSendmail and Syslog · splits 19 ⟂ 12
Eric AllmanOther contributions · splits 25 ⟂ 6
Eric AllmanOverview · splits 26 ⟂ 5
Eric AllmanEducation and training · splits 27 ⟂ 4
Eric AllmanPersonal life · splits 28 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Eric Allman

Nodes31
Edges30
Triples24
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.064516
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Eric Allman to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Works, Science & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Eric Allman · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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