Stephen R. Bourne
Stephen Richard Bourne (born January 7, 1944 ) is a British computer scientist and mathematician.
Life
1975-77 he developed the Bourne shell ("sh") named after him for the Unix operating system . This shell was created for AT&T at Bell Laboratories , with John Mashey as assistant. The Bourne shell is the basis of all command line interpreters for Unix and Linux that are widespread today .
Bourne also developed the first version of the Advanced Debugger (adb), the basic debugger that is still available today on almost all UNIX systems .
He was President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) from 2000 to 2002 .
Web links
- Stephen Bourne at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Stephen Bourne on LifeWiki
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bourne, Stephen R. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bourne, Stephen Richard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British computer scientist and mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1944 |