Geoff Collyer

Template:Short description Template:For Template:Infobox scientist Geoff Collyer (born 1958) is a Canadian computer scientist.<ref name="MPC-object" /> 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.<ref>Mark Linimon (1994). C News Frequently Asked Questions.</ref><ref>C News source code</ref> He contributed the code that allowed to convert the Bourne Shell from using the non-portable sbrk to a portable malloc based implementation.<ref>http://schilytools.sourceforge.net/bosh.html Template:Webarchive Bourne Shell project page</ref> 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.<ref name="MPC-object" />

Honors

Asteroid 129101 Geoffcollyer, discovered by astronomers at the Jarnac Observatory in Arizona in 2004, was named in his honor.<ref name="MPC-object" /> The official Template:MoMP was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 August 2006 (Template:Small).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />

External links

• Geoff Collyers Homepage with publications
• modified V7 shell source
• modified V9 shell source
• recent Plan 9 kernel source Template:Webarchive
• Geoff Collyer and Henry Spencer (1987). News Need Not Be Slow.
• Mark Linimon (1994). C News Frequently Asked Questions.
• C News source code

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