Robert S. Fabry | |
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| Born | December 2, 1940 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | List-structured Addressing (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | Victor Yngve |
Robert Samuel Fabry, as a student at the University of Chicago worked on COMIT II and MADBUG, an interactive debugger for MAD both on CTSS. [1]
Later while a computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, conceived of the idea of obtaining DARPA funding for a radically improved version of AT&T Unix and started the Computer Systems Research Group. [2] [3] [4]
In 1983, Bob turned over administrative control of the CSRG to professors Domenico Ferrari and Susan Graham. [5]
See also
References
- ^ Crisman, P.A., ed. (December 31, 1969). "The Compatible Time-Sharing System, A Programmer's Guide" (PDF). The M.I.T Computation Center. Retrieved March 10, 2022.
- ^ Dr. Peter H. Salus (2005-05-05). "Groklaw - The Daemon, the GNU, and the Penguin - Ch. 7". Retrieved 2010-12-04.
- ^ Marshall Kirk McKusick (1999–2001). Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix : From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable. From the book Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution. O'Reilly. ISBN 1-56592-582-3. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
- ^ Andrew Leonard (2000-05-16). "BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code: How Berkeley hackers built the Net's most fabled free operating system on the ashes of the '60s -- and then lost the lead to Linux". salon.com. Retrieved 2014-03-24.
- ^ DiBona, Chris; Ockman, Sam (1999-01-03). Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". ISBN 978-0-596-55390-6.
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