Geoff Collyer

Geoff Collyer
Geoff Collyer
Born	1958 (age 65–66)
Nationality	Canadian
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science

Geoff Collyer (born 1958) is a Canadian computer scientist.^[1] 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.^[2]^[3] He contributed the code that allowed to convert the Bourne Shell from using the non-portable sbrk to a portable malloc based implementation.^[4] 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.^[1]

^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference MPC-object was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Mark Linimon (1994). C News Frequently Asked Questions.
^ C News source code
^ http://schilytools.sourceforge.net/bosh.html Archived 2019-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Bourne Shell project page

[MPC-object-1] Cite error: The named reference MPC-object was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[2] Mark Linimon (1994). C News Frequently Asked Questions.

[3] C News source code

[4] ttp://schilytools.sourceforge.net/bosh.html Archived 2019-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Bourne Shell project page

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