Peter H. Salus
Computer Scientist
Who is Peter H. Salus?
Peter H. 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. He has a 1963 PhD in Linguistics from New York University.
After an intense academic career serving as professor and dean at several universities, 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; in addition, he has worked for several high tech startups. From 1987 to 1996, he was Managing Editor of the technical journal Computing Systems.
He is best known for his books on the history of computing, particularly A Quarter Century of UNIX and Casting The Net.
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- Also known as
- Peter Salus
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- New York University
- Lived in
- Vienna
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on July 23, 2013
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