Peter H. Salus | |
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 Salus with a Tux pin, at IT-Højskolen in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002 | |
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Peter Henry Salus is a linguist, computer scientist, historian of technology, author in many fields, and an editor of books and journals. He has conducted research in germanistics, language acquisition, and computer languages.
Salus has a 1963 PhD in linguistics from New York University. His dissertation was The Compound Noun in Indo-European: A Survey. [1]
After serving as professor and dean at University of North Florida, [2] University of Toronto, [3] [4] University of Massachusetts where in 1967 he was involved in the founding of the Department of Linguistics, [5] [6] and Queens College, City University of New York, [7] he is now largely retired.
He has also been executive director of both the USENIX Association and the Sun User Group, and Vice President of the Free Software Foundation. [8] He was one of the organizers of the 1996 conference on Freely Redistributable Software in Cambridge. [9] In addition, he has worked for several high tech startups. From 1987 to 1996, he was Managing Editor of the technical journal Computing Systems (MIT Press and the USENIX Association).
In 1966, Salus worked with W. H. Auden on a translation of the Poetic Edda . During his work he discovered that the "Airman's Alphabet" in Auden's work was derived from the Eddic poems or more likely the translation by Bruce Dickins. [10] In December 1965 Salus attended a meeting of the Tolkien Society in New York. [11] Auden and Salus' comments and intentions to write a book on J. R. R. Tolkien were reported by The New Yorker and The Daily Telegraph . However, Tolkien disapproved of a book on himself and was critical of Auden's reported remarks on his house and Salus' observations on the shape of Middle-earth. [12]
He is best known for his books on the history of computing, particularly A Quarter Century of UNIX and Casting The Net (a history of the Internet up to 1995).
A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System by John Lions is a highly influential 1976 publication containing analytical commentary on the source code of the 6th Edition Unix computer operating system "resident nucleus" software, plus copy formatted and indexed by Lions, of said source code obtained from the authors at AT&T Bell Labs. It is also commonly referred to as the Lions Book.
Georges Leon Rey is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland.
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John Cameron McLaughlin was an American philologist who for many years served as Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Iowa.
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Elizabeth Dore (1946-2022) was a professor of Latin American Studies, specialising in class, race, gender and ethnicity, with a focus on modern history. She was professor emerita of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Southampton, and had a PhD from Columbia University.
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Alan Milner Everitt, was a British local historian. He was a leading figure in the development of English provincial history in the forty years after the Second World War.
Erna Lesky was an Austrian pediatrician and historian of medicine. She was the first woman on the medical faculty of the University of Vienna, and was named as "one of the most illustrious medical historians of the twentieth century" by Owen Harding Wangensteen.
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