Robert S. Fabry | |
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| Born | December 2, 1940 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | List-structured Addressing (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | Victor Yngve |
| Doctoral students | Eric Schmidt |
| Other notable students | Eric Allman Kirk McKusick |
Bob Fabry founded the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) in the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley in 1979. The BSD software developed at CSRG helped spawn the Open Source movement and facilitated the explosion of the internet. The success of the BSD programming environment led to a number of Unix-like systems which replaced the portions of the BSD code that were subject to AT&T copyright. The Linux system is perhaps the most well-known of these and about half of the utilities that it comes packaged with are drawn from the BSD distribution.[1][2][3]
- ^ Leonard, Andrew : BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code. (May 16, 2000) Retrieved August 2, 2024.
- ^ University of California: 150 Years of Light: (2023) Retrieved August 2, 2024.
- ^ McKusick, Kirk: Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix Retrieved August 2, 2024.