Geoff Collyer

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Geoff Collyer
Born1958 (age 66–67)
NationalityCanadian
Scientific career
Fields Computer science

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]

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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

  1. 1 2 3 "129101 Geoffcollyer (2004 XF6)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  2. ↑ Mark Linimon (1994). C News Frequently Asked Questions .
  3. ↑ C News source code
  4. ↑ https://schilytools.sourceforge.net/bosh.html Archived 2019-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Bourne Shell project page
  5. ↑ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 12 August 2019.


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