Editing John Walker (programmer) (section)

== Early projects ==
Walker was born in [[Baltimore, Maryland]] on May 16, 1949.<ref name="obit" /> He studied electrical engineering at [[Case Western Reserve University]].<ref name = obit/> In 1974/1975, Walker wrote the [[Timeline of computer viruses and worms#1975|ANIMAL]] [[software]], which self-replicated on [[UNIVAC 1100/2200 series#UNIVAC 1100 compatible series|UNIVAC 1100]] machines. It is considered one of the first computer viruses.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/animal.html|title=The Animal Episode|last=Walker|first=John|date=August 21, 1996|website=Fourmilab|access-date=March 20, 2012|archive-date=May 3, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503084525/http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/animal.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yhe0w_j1iiQC|title=Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses|last=Parikka|first=Jussi|date=2007|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=9780820488370|pages=41, 239–40|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QwIAAAAAMBAJ&q=Walker&pg=PA70|title=White Paper: The Evolution of Viruses|last=Stern|first=Zack|date=May 2008|work=Maximum PC|access-date=March 20, 2012}}</ref>

Walker also founded the hardware integration manufacturing company '''Marinchip'''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/17/business/saying-goodbye-good-riddance-to-silicon-valley.html|title=Saying Goodbye, Good Riddance To Silicon Valley|last=Markoff|first=John|date=1999|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=March 20, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=November 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221122124724/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/17/business/saying-goodbye-good-riddance-to-silicon-valley.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Among other things, Marinchip pioneered the translation of numerous computer language compilers to [[Intel]] platforms.{{Citation needed|date=August 2014}}