Stephen R. Bourne
British computer scientist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stephen Richard "Steve" Bourne (born 7 January 1944) is an English computer scientist based in the United States for most of his career. He is well known as the author of the Bourne shell (sh
), which is the foundation for the standard command-line interfaces to Unix.[1]
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Stephen Richard Bourne | |
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Born | (1944-01-07) 7 January 1944 (age 80) |
Other names | Steve |
Education | King's College London (BSc) Trinity College, Cambridge (Diploma in Computer Science, Ph.D.) |
Known for | ALGOL 68C CAMAL Advanced Debugger Bourne shell The Unix System ACM Queue |
Awards | Presidential Award, ACM, 2008 Fellow, ACM, 2005 Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Institutions | Bell Labs Silicon Graphics Digital Equipment Corporation Sun Microsystems Cisco Systems Association for Computing Machinery Icon Venture Partners |
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