Louis Pouzin
Louis Pouzin (born 1931 in Chantenay-Saint-Imbert, Nièvre, France) invented the datagram and designed an early packet communications network, CYCLADES.[1]
He studied at the École Polytechnique.
His work influenced Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, and others in the development of TCP/IP protocols used by the Internet.[2]
Having participated in the design of the Compatible Time Sharing System (CTSS), Pouzin wrote a program called RUNCOM around 1963/64. RUNCOM permitted the execution of contained commands within a folder, and can be considered the ancestor of the command-line interface and shell scripts. Pouzin was, in fact, the one who coined the term shell for a command language in 1964 or '65. Pouzin's concepts were later implemented in Multics by Glenda Schroeder at MIT.[3]
Awards [edit]
1997 - Pouzin received the ACM SIGCOMM Award for "pioneering work on connectionless packet communication".[2]
2003 - Louis Pouzin was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French government on March 19, 2003.
2012 - Pouzin was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.[4]
2013 - Pouzin was one of five Internet and Web pioneers awarded the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.[5]
References [edit]
- ^ "A Technical History of CYCLADES", Technical Histories of the Internet & other Network Protocols (THINK), University of Texas, 11 June 2002
- ^ a b "Postel and Pouzin: 1997 SIGCOMM Award Winners", ACM SIGCOMM web site
- ^ "The Origin of the Shell", Multicians, accessed 31 March 2012
- ^ 2012 Inductees, Internet Hall of Fame website. Last accessed April 24, 2012
- ^ "2013 Winners Announced" Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
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