Geoff Collyer

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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]

Canadians citizens of Canada

Canadians are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, several of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Canadian.

A computer scientist is a person who has acquired the knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application.

C News is a news server package, written by Geoff Collyer, assisted by Henry Spencer, at the University of Toronto as a replacement for B News. It was presented at the Winter 1987 USENIX conference in Washington, D.C.

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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]

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  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. ↑ http://schilytools.sourceforge.net/bosh.html Bourne Shell project page
  5. ↑ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 12 August 2019.


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