Stephen R. Bourne
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Steve Bourne is a computer scientist, originally from the United Kingdom and based in the United States for most of his career. He is most famous as the author of the Bourne shell (sh), which is the foundation for the standard command line interfaces to Unix.[1]
Bourne has a Bachelor's degree in mathematics from King's College London, England. He has a Diploma in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge. Subsequently he worked on an ALGOL 68 compiler at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory (see ALGOL 68C).
After Cambridge, Bourne spent nine years at Bell Labs with the Seventh Edition Unix team. As well as the Bourne shell, he wrote the adb debugger and The UNIX System, the second book on the UNIX system, intended for a general readership.
After Bell Labs, Bourne worked in senior engineering management positions at Silicon Graphics, Digital Equipment Corporation, Sun Microsystems and Cisco Systems.
From 2000 to 2002 he was President of the Association for Computing Machinery.[2]
He is presently chief technology officer at El Dorado Ventures, a Menlo Park-based venture capital group in California.[3] He is also the chair of the Editorial Advisory Board for ACM Queue, a magazine he helped found when he was President of the ACM.[4] Additionally, he is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and of the Royal Astronomical Society.
[edit] References
- ^ Howard Dahdah, 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, 5 March 2009.
- ^ http://www.acm.org/about/past-presidents
- ^ Steve Bourne, Chief Technology Officer, El Dorado Ventures, California, US.
- ^ John Stanik, A Conversation with Steve Bourne, Eric Allman, and Bryan Cantrill, ACM Queue, October 24, 2008.
[edit] External links
- Computer Science Colloquium (1994)
- ACM Queue conversation, ACM Queue
- Stephen Bourne at LifeWiki
- Steve Bourne at El Dorado Ventures
- Living people
- British computer scientists
- American computer scientists
- Unix people
- Alumni of King's College London
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Members of IFIP Working Group 2.1
- Members of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
- Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Presidents of the Association for Computing Machinery
- British expatriates in the United States
- SGI people
- Digital Equipment Corporation people
- Sun Microsystems people
- Programming language designers
- Computer science writers
- Cellular automatists
