Geoff Collyer
{{short description|Canadian computer scientist (born 1958)}}
{{for|the English footballer|Geoff Collier}}
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Geoff Collyer (born 1958) is a Canadian computer scientist. 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.Mark Linimon (1994). [http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/software/b/cnews/ C News Frequently Asked Questions].[http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/c-news/c-news.tar.Z C News source code] He contributed the code that allowed to convert the Bourne Shell from using the non-portable sbrk to a portable malloc based implementation.http://schilytools.sourceforge.net/bosh.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927190016/http://schilytools.sourceforge.net/bosh.html |date=2019-09-27 }} Bourne Shell project page 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.
Honors
Asteroid 129101 Geoffcollyer, discovered by astronomers at the Jarnac Observatory in Arizona in 2004, was named in his honor. The official {{MoMP|129101|naming citation}} was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 August 2006 ({{small|M.P.C. 57426}}).
References
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|title = 129101 Geoffcollyer (2004 XF6)
|work = Minor Planet Center
|url = https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=129101
|accessdate = 12 August 2019}}
|title = MPC/MPO/MPS Archive
|work = Minor Planet Center
|url = https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html
|accessdate = 12 August 2019}}
}}
External links
- [http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/ Geoff Collyers Homepage with publications]
- [http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/v7sh.tar modified V7 shell source]
- [http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/v9sh.tar modified V9 shell source]
- [http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/9/9.tgz recent Plan 9 kernel source] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170907075627/http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/9/9.tgz |date=2017-09-07 }}
- Geoff Collyer and Henry Spencer (1987). [http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/doc/programming/c-news.ps News Need Not Be Slow].
- Mark Linimon (1994). [http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/software/b/cnews/ C News Frequently Asked Questions].
- [http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/c-news/c-news.tar.Z C News source code]
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- {{cite web
| last = Collyer| first = Geoff| date = 6 September 2017
| url = http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/| title = Geoff Collyer
| publisher = Collyer Enterprises| accessdate = 2017-09-06
}}
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