Steven Bourne

Name: Steven Bourne

Born: January 7, 1944, in United Kingdom

Computer-related contributions

• British computer scientist.
• Known for authoring the Bourne shell (sh), the foundation for the standard command line interfaces to Unix.
• Worked on an ALGOL 68 compiler at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
• Studied the Game of Life with mathematician John Conway.
• President of the Association for Computing Machinery (2000 - 2002).

Significant publications

• The UNIX System (1982).
• The UNIX System V environment.
• Adb debugger.

Honors and awards

• Fellow of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) (2005).
• ACM Presidential Award (2008).
• ACM Oustanding Contribution Award (2017).
• Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.