George Coulouris (computer scientist)

George Coulouris
Born (1937-11-15) 15 November 1937 (age 86)
New York City
NationalityBritish
Known forContent Addressable File Store, Em Unix text editor, Distributed Systems textbook
Scientific career
InstitutionsQueen Mary, University of London
University of Cambridge[1]
IBM
Imperial College London
Websitewww.coulouris.net
www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~gc

George F. Coulouris is a British computer scientist and the son of actor George Coulouris. He is an emeritus professor of Queen Mary, University of London and formerly visiting professor in residence at University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. He is co-author of a textbook on distributed systems. He was instrumental in the development of ICL's Content Addressable File Store[2] (CAFS) and he developed em, the Unix editor, which inspired Bill Joy to write vi.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ Naguib, H.; Coulouris, G.; Mitchell, S. (2002). "Middleware Support for Context-aware Multimedia Applications". New Developments in Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing. Vol. 70. p. 9. doi:10.1007/0-306-47005-5_2. ISBN 0-7923-7481-9.
  2. ^ Coulouris, G. F.; Evans, J. M.; Mitchell, R. W. (1972). "Towards Content-Addressing in Data Bases". The Computer Journal. 15 (2): 95. doi:10.1093/comjnl/15.2.95.
  3. ^ Vance, Ashlee (11 September 2003). "Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor". The Register. Archived from the original on 18 August 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
  4. ^ Coulouris, George. "Bits of History". Queen Mary, University of London. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  5. ^ George Coulouris publications indexed by Microsoft Academic