Geoff Collyer (born 1958) is a Canadian computer scientist.[1] He is the senior author of C News, a protocol-neutral news transport, and the designer of NOV, the News Overview database (article index) used by all modern newsreaders.[2][3] He contributed the code that allowed to convert the Bourne Shell from using the non-portable sbrk to a portable malloc based implementation.[4] In the past he worked as a Unix system programmer, but since 1994 he has been living on Plan 9 while working at Bell Laboratories.[1]
Honors
Asteroid 129101 Geoffcollyer, discovered by astronomers at the Jarnac Observatory in Arizona in 2004, was named in his honor.[1] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 August 2006 (M.P.C. 57426).[5]
References
- ^ a b c "129101 Geoffcollyer (2004 XF6)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- ^ Mark Linimon (1994). C News Frequently Asked Questions.
- ^ C News source code
- ^ http://schilytools.sourceforge.net/bosh.html Bourne Shell project page
- ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
External links
- Geoff Collyers Homepage with publications
- modified V7 shell source
- modified V9 shell source
- recent Plan 9 kernel source
- Geoff Collyer and Henry Spencer (1987). News Need Not Be Slow.
- Mark Linimon (1994). C News Frequently Asked Questions.
- C News source code
- Collyer, Geoff (6 September 2017). "Geoff Collyer". Collyer Enterprises. Retrieved 2017-09-06.