Victor Alexander Vyssotsky (February 26, 1931 – December 24, 2012) was a mathematician and computer scientist.

Multics, whilst not particularly commercially successful in itself, directly inspired Ken Thompson to develop Unix.

[3] Later, Vyssotsky was the founding director of Digital's Cambridge Research Lab.

In 1960, Vyssotsky co-created the BLODI Block Diagram Compiler at Bell Labs.

[4] In 1961, together with Robert Morris Sr. and Doug McIlroy, he devised the computer game Darwin (later known as Core War) on an IBM 7090 at Bell Labs.