Stephen R. Bourne
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Stephen Richard "Steve" Bourne (born 7 January 1944) is an English computer scientist based in the United States for most of his career. He is well known as the author of the Bourne shell (sh), which is the foundation for the standard command-line interfaces to Unix.[1]
Biography
Bourne has a
After the
adb debugger and The Unix SystemAfter Bell Labs, Bourne worked in senior
He was involved with developing international standards in programming and informatics, as a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi,[4] which specified, maintains, and supports the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.[5]
From 2000 to 2002 he was president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).[6] For his work on computing, Bourne was awarded the ACM's Presidential Award in 2008 and was made a Fellow of the organization in 2005.[7] He is also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Bourne was chief technology officer at Icon Venture Partners, a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California through 2014.[8] He is also chairperson of the editorial advisory board for ACM Queue, a magazine he helped found when he was president of the ACM.[9]
References
- ^ Dahdah, Howard (5 March 2009). "The A–Z of Programming Languages: Bourne shell, or sh – An in-depth interview with Steve Bourne, creator of the Bourne shell, or sh". Computerworld.
- ^ Bourne, Stephen Richard (1969). Automatic algebraic manipulation and its application to the lunar theory. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Bourne, Stephen R. (30 November 2015). Early days of Unix and design of sh (video).
- ^ Jeuring, Johan; Meertens, Lambert; Guttmann, Walter (17 August 2016). "Profile of IFIP Working Group 2.1". Foswiki. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ^ Swierstra, Doaitse; Gibbons, Jeremy; Meertens, Lambert (2 March 2011). "ScopeEtc: IFIP21: Foswiki". Foswiki. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ^ "ACM Past Presidents". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- ^ "Stephen Bourne". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
- ^ "Steve Bourne". Icon Venture Partners. Archived from the original on 11 December 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
- ^ Stanik, John (24 October 2008). "A Conversation with Steve Bourne, Eric Allman, and Bryan Cantrill". ACM Queue. 6 (5).
External links
- Lindsay, Bruce (6 December 2004). "A Conversation with Bruce Lindsay" (Interview). Interviewed by Stephen R. Bourne. ACM Queue.