Steven Bourne
Name: Steven Bourne Born: January 7, 1944, in United Kingdom Computer-related contributions British computer scientist. Known for authoring the Bourne shell (sh), the foundation for the standard command line interfaces to Unix. Worked on an ALGOL 68 compiler at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Studied the Game of Life with mathematician John Conway. President of the Association for Computing Machinery (2000 - 2002). Significant publications The UNIX System (1982). The UNIX System V environment....