George Coulouris (computer scientist)
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George Coulouris is a British computer scientist and the son of actor George Coulouris. He is an emeritus professor of Queen Mary, University of London and is currently Visiting Professor in Residence at University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and co-author of a textbook in distributed systems.[1] He was instrumental in the development of ICL's Content Addressable File Store (CAFS) and he developed em, the Unix editor, which inspired Bill Joy to write vi.
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[edit] Career
In 1960 George Coulouris graduated with an honours degree in Physics from University College London. He worked at IBM and other companies before joining the London Institute of Computer Science as a Research Assistant and then Imperial College London as a lecturer in 1965.
In 1971 he joined Queen Mary College as a lecturer. He became a reader in 1973 and a professor in 1978.
[edit] Family
Prof Coulouris's name is of Greek heritage, as he is the son of actor George Coulouris, whose father was a Greek immigrant to Britain married to an English woman.[citation needed]
George Coulouris's sister is artist Mary-Louise Coulouris.[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ Narasimhan, V. Lakshmi (1995). IEEE First ICA3PP, IEEE First International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, Brisbane, Australia, 19–21 April 1995. IEEE. p. 890. ISBN 9780780320185. http://books.google.com/books?id=k91VAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
