Stephen R. Bourne

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Stephen Richard Bourne
Steve Bourne speaking at SDWest 2005
Born	(1944-01-07) 7 January 1944 (age 80) United Kingdom
Other names	Steve
Education	King's College London (BSc) Trinity College, Cambridge (Dipl., PhD)
Known for	ALGOL 68C CAMAL Advanced Debugger Bourne shell The Unix System ACM Queue
Awards	Presidential Award, ACM, 2008 Fellow, ACM, 2005 Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Bell Labs Silicon Graphics Digital Equipment Corporation Sun Microsystems Cisco Systems Association for Computing Machinery Icon Venture Partners

Stephen Richard "Steve" Bourne (born 7 January 1944) is an English computer scientist based in the United States for most of his career. He is well known as the author of the Bourne shell (sh), which is the foundation for the standard command-line interfaces to Unix.^[1]