Peter H. Salus

Peter H. Salus

Peter H. Salus is a linguist, computer scientist, historian of technology, author in many fields, and an editor of books and journals. He has conducted research in germanistics, language acquisition, and computer languages. He has a 1963 PhD. in Linguistics from New York University.

After an intense academic career serving as professor and dean at several universities, he is now largely retired. He has also been Executive Director of both the USENIX Association and the Sun User Group, and Vice President of the Free Software Foundation; in addition, he has worked for several high tech startups. From 1987 to 1996, he was Managing Editor of "Computing Systems" (MIT Press and the USENIX Association).

He is best known for his books on the history of computing, particularly "A Quarter Century of UNIX" and "Casting The Net" (a history of the Internet up to 1995).

Partial bibliography

*"The Daemon, the Gnu & the Penguin" (Reed Media Services, Sept. 2008; ISBN 978-0-9790342-3-7; previously [http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20051013231901859 serialised] on the Groklaw website)
*"A Quarter Century of UNIX" (Addison Wesley, June 1, 1994; ISBN 0-201-54777-5)
*"Casting the Net" (Addison-Wesley, March 1995; ISBN 0-201-87674-4)
*"Handbook of Programming Languages" (ed., four volumes: ISBN 1-57870-008-6, ISBN 1-57870-009-4, ISBN 1-57870-010-8, ISBN 1-57870-011-6)
*"Packet Communication" (Robert Metcalfe, David Walden, Peter H. Salus; ISBN 1-57398-033-1)
*"Big Book of IPv6 Addressing RFCs" (Morgan Kaufmann, 2000; ISBN 0-12-616770-2)
*"On Language Plato to Humboldt" (Holt, Reinholt, and Winston, Inc., 1969)
*"For W. H. Auden, February 21, 1972" (ed. Peter H. Salus and Paul B. Taylor, 1972)
*"Völuspá : The Song of the Sybil" (translated by Paul B. Taylor and W. H. Auden, Icelandic text edited by Peter H. Salus and Paul B. Taylor, 1968)


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