Richard Stevens
William Richard Stevens (born February 5, 1951 in Luanshya , Zambia , † September 1, 1999 in Tucson , Arizona ) was an American author of Unix books, articles and RFCs .
Life
Richard Stevens was born in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1951. His parents were American, his father worked as a metallurgist at the Roan Antelope Copper Mine in the Copperbelt . In 1956 the family returned to the USA.
Stevens studied aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan (graduated in 1973) and systems engineering at the University of Arizona ( M.Sc. 1979, Ph.D. 1982). He had his first contact with computers while studying engineering when he took a Fortran IV course in 1968 .
In 2000 Richard Stevens was posthumously awarded the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award for his commitment , which his sister Claire and his wife Sally received.
Works
His books are the standard works on Unix and TCP / IP network programming.
- Books
- Unix Network Programming. ISBN 0-13-949876-1 .
- Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (APUE). ISBN 0-201-56317-7 . (second edition by Stephen A. Rago, 2005, ISBN 0-201-43307-9 )
- UNIX Network Programming. Volume 1, Second Edition: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI. ISBN 0-13-490012-X .
- UNIX Network Programming. Volume 2, Second Edition: Interprocess Communications. ISBN 0-13-081081-9 .
- TCP / IP Illustrated. Volume 1: The Protocols. ISBN 0-201-63346-9 (German translation ISBN 3-8266-5042-5 )
- TCP / IP Illustrated. Volume 2: The Implementation. ISBN 0-201-63354-X .
- TCP / IP Illustrated. Volume 3: TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP, and the UNIX Domain Protocols. ISBN 0-201-63354-X .
- items
- M. Allman, V. Paxson, WR Stevens: TCP Congestion Control. RFC 2581 1999.
- RE Gilligan, S. Thomson, J. Bound, WR Stevens: Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6. RFC 2553 , 1999.
- WR Stevens, M. Thomas: Advanced Sockets API for IPv6. RFC 2292 , 1998.
- WR Stevens, J.-S. Pendry: Portals in 4.4BSD. In: Proceedings of the 1995 Winter USENIX Technical Conference. New Orleans 1995, pp. 1-10.
- WR Stevens: Heuristics for Disk Drive Positioning in 4.3BSD. In: Computing Systems. vol. 2, no. 3, Summer 1989, pp. 251-274.
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Stevens in the catalog of the German National Library
- Stevens' former website
- APUE website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stevens, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stevens, William Richard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author of Unix books |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th February 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luanshya , Zambia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 1999 |
| Place of death | Tucson , Arizona |