Subject: Re: I will send this within fifteen minutes, if it is OK. Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 02:38:31 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: secretary@lxny.org Subject: Thursday 14 October 2004 LXNY Special Visitor Meeting: S. R. Bourne, of the shell, of the shell again, of the ACM, and of the RAS What: Special visitor meeting of LXNY. Who: Our speaker will be Steve Bourne. Date: Thursday, 14 October 2004 Time: 6:30 pm Location: Columbia University in the City of New York Exact Location: Somewhere in the Engineering Buildings, which lie in the Northeast part of the campus of Columbia University. We will place signs at the Gate at 116th Street and Broadway, and also near the Engineering Buildings. These signs will tell the exact location. Subway: The 1 and 9 trains stop at 116th Street and Broadway, the Columbia University stop. The speaker is Steve Bourne, of the shell, and again of the shell, of the ACM, and of the RAS. http://steve-parker.org/sh/bourne.shtml http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html http://www.acm.org http://www.ras.org.uk/ We will gather for food and drink after the meeting, location to be determined at the meeting. This meeting of LXNY is free and open to the public. About the speaker: S. R. Bourne is the designer and author of the Bourne Shell. The shell is a principal part of the operating environment of the UNIX Operating System. It is both the command interpreter and a programming language. The Bourne shell was the first widely used UNIX shell, is often known as "the shell" (sh) and is still itself in wide use today as are its descendents, the compatible shells (ksh, zsh and bash). ftp://ftp.cs.mun.ca/pub/pdksh http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/reuse http://www.kornshell.com/software/ATT http://www.kornshell.com/doc http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jlk/lj http://www.zsh.org http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot Bourne is the author of the ADB debugging tool. Bourne is also the author of "The UNIX System", one of the better books on UNIX. Steve Bourne recently served as elected President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), an international organization founded in 1947, that is one of the two venerable very large professional organizations in the computer field in the USA. Steve Bourne's description of the talk: The talk begins with the early days of UNIX from the speaker's own experience at Bell Labs and discusses some of the key advances made including the shell. Some of the shell innovations will be discussed including some of the challenges faced introducing it to the user community. The second part of the talk is devoted more to the speaker's recent experience at El Dorado Ventures where he is currently CTO. This part will discuss the role of Venture Capital, what makes a good VC presentation and why some things get funded and others do not. It wraps up with the elements of a good business plan and some anecdotes on companies that have failed. About Steve Bourne, from http://www.cs.ucf.edu/csdept/colloq/2003-04/04-06-04.html Over the last 20 years Steve has held senior engineering management positions at Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment and Silicon Graphics. At present he is Chief Technical Officer at El Dorado Ventures in Menlo Park, California. Prior to this Steve spent nine years at Bell Laboratories as a member of the Seventh Edition UNIX team. He designed the UNIX Command Language or "Bourne Shell" which is used for scripting in the UNIX programming environment and he wrote the ADB debugger tool. After receiving his formal education, Steve worked as Assistant Director of Research at the Computer Laboratory in Cambridge England. During that time he wrote a portable compiler for ALGOL 68. The intermediate language for this compiler was the basis for the instruction set of the Cambridge Capability Machine. Steve is Past President of the ACM and is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics from King's College London, a Diploma (or M.Sc.) in Computer Science from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Trinity College in Cambridge, England. LXNY thanks the Columbia University Chapter of the ACM for their generous assistance in hosting this meeting on short notice and in the midst of their other activities including the programming contest and the NYCBUG meeting at Columbia, Saturday 16 October 2:00 pm with Marshall Kirk McKusick and Eric Allman as speakers! http://www.cs.columbia.edu/acm http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/directions.html Please feel free to copy this notice to any person or any suitable list. We ask that the text body be copied entire and uncorrupt. -- Michael E. Smith Jay Sulzberger LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org