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American linguist and computer historian/advocate
Peter H. Salus
Salus with a
Tux pin, at IT-Højskolen in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002
Born
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 .
Education and career
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).
Contributions
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).
Peter Salus at the 1,000,000,000-second
UNIX time event, in Copenhagen on 9 September 2001.
Partial bibliography
Völuspá : The Song of the Sybil (translated by Paul B. Taylor and W. H. Auden, Icelandic text edited by Peter H. Salus and Paul B. Taylor, 1968)
On Language: Plato to von Humboldt (Holt, Reinholt, and Winston, Inc., 1969)
[13]
Linguistics (Bobbs-Merrill, 1969)
[14]
Pāṇini to Postal: A Bibliography in the History of Linguistics (Linguistic Research, 1971)
[15]
For W. H. Auden, 21 February 1972 (ed. Peter H. Salus and Paul B. Taylor, 1972)
Language and the Language Arts (with James Flood, Prentice-Hall, 1984)
[16]
A Quarter Century of UNIX (Addison Wesley, 1 June 1994;
ISBN
0-201-54777-5 )
[17]
Casting the Net (Addison-Wesley, March 1995;
ISBN
0-201-87674-4 )
[18]
Handbook of Programming Languages (ed.; Indianapolis, IN: Macmillan Technical Pub., 1998,
LCCN
97-81204 ; four volumes:
ISBN
1-57870-008-6 ,
ISBN
1-57870-009-4 ,
ISBN
1-57870-010-8 ,
ISBN
1-57870-011-6 )
[19]
Big Book of IPv6 Addressing RFCs (Morgan Kaufmann, 2000;
ISBN
0-12-616770-2 )
The Complete April Fools' Day RFCs (Peer-to-Peer Communications LLC, 2007;
ISBN
978-1-57398-042-5 )
The Daemon, the Gnu & the Penguin (Reed Media Services, Sept. 2008;
ISBN
978-0-9790342-3-7 ) — previously
serialised on the
Groklaw website
The ARPANET Sourcebook: The Unpublished Foundations of the Internet (Peer-to-Peer Communications LLC, 2008;
ISBN
978-1-57398-000-5 )
References
^ "Abstracts of dissertations", Linguistics , 3 (11): 91–117, 1965,
doi :
10.1515/ling.1965.3.11.91
^
A probe of the mysteries of fallible memory , Macleans, 23 February 1981
^
Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS , Computerworld, 4 June 2009
^
Studies out in Left Field: Defamatory essays presented to James D. McCawley , JohnBenjamins Publishing Company, 1992 reprint of 1971 book, page viii
^
History of the Department , UMass
^
A History of the UMass Linguistics Department to 1999 , 1999,
Barbara Partee
^
Personalia for 1964-65 , Monatshefte, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Jan., 1965), pp. 17-40
^
"Peter H. Salus - Author, Anniversaries" . I'Reilly Conferences .
Archived from the original on 16 April 2019.
^
Free as in Freedom [Paperback]: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software , Sam Williams, O'Reilly, page 155-158
^
W.H. Auden: Contexts for Poetry , Peter Edgerly Firchow, page 241
^
W. H. Auden: A Biography , Humphrey Carpenter, page 1838
^
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien ,
J.R.R. Tolkien
^ Reviews of On Language: Plato to von Humboldt :
Rocher, Rosane (October–December 1969), Journal of the American Oriental Society , 89 (4): 820,
doi :
10.2307/596986 ,
JSTOR
596986 {{
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (
link )
Koerner, E. F. K. (January 1970), Lingua , 25 : 419–431,
doi :
10.1016/0024-3841(70)90049-5 {{
citation }}
: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (
link )
Zimmer, Karl E. (February 1973), Romance Philology , 26 (3): 592–594,
JSTOR
44940729 {{
citation }}
: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (
link )
^ Reviews of Linguistics :
Blake, Robert W. (March 1970), The English Journal , 59 (3): 431–432,
doi :
10.2307/812081 ,
JSTOR
812081 {{
citation }}
: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (
link )
Percival, W. Keith (March 1971), Language , 47 (1): 181–185,
doi :
10.2307/412195 ,
JSTOR
412195 {{
citation }}
: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (
link )
^ Review of Pāṇini to Postal: A Bibliography in the History of Linguistics :
Koerner, E. F. K. (November 1973), Foundations of Language , 10 (4): 589–594,
JSTOR
25000743 {{
citation }}
: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (
link )
^ Review of Language and the Language Arts :
Baumann, James F. (April 1984), The Reading Teacher , 37 (8): 786–788,
JSTOR
20198599 {{
citation }}
: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (
link )
^ Review of A Quarter Century of Unix :
^ Review of Casting the Net :
^ Review of Handbook of Programming Languages :
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