- John Lions
John Lions (
January 19 1937 inSydney ,Australia –December 5 ,1998 inSydney ) was anAustralia n computer scientist. He is best known as the author of "Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code ", commonly known as the "Lions Book".Early life
Lions gained a degree with first-class honours from the
University of Sydney in 1959. He applied, and received ascholarship to study at theUniversity of Cambridge where he earned his doctorate onControl engineering in 1963. After his graduation, he worked at the consulting firmKCS Ltd inToronto ,Canada . In 1967, he briefly took a position atDalhousie University in Halifax,Canada before moving on to working for Burroughs inLos Angeles as aSystems Analyst .Later life
In 1972 he moved back to
Sydney ,Australia and became a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at theUniversity of New South Wales . In 1980, he was promoted to AssociateProfessor and apart from sabbaticals in 1978, 1983 and 1989 atBell Laboratories , he remained at the school until retiring in 1995 due to badhealth .Work
* His most famous work, the Lions Book, was written as course notes for his
operating system s course at UNSW.
* Lions organised the Australian UNIX Users' Group and was its founding president from 1984 to 1986.
* Lions was involved in the setting up of an annual conference for academics, theAustralian Computer Science Conference and he was the editor of theAustralian Computer Journal for six years and was made a fellow of theAustralian Computer Society for his contribution.Personal life
John Lions was married to Marianne and had two children, Katherine and Elizabeth.
External links
* [http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/1999-2/lions.html In Memoriam: John Lions] (
Peter H. Salus , "USENIX News",22 March 1999 )
* [http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/11/30/lions/ Code Critic] (Rachel Chalmers, "Salon"30 November 1999 )
* [http://www.auug.org.au/resources/lions_award.shtml The John Lions Award For Research Work in Open Systems] (Australian Unix Users' Group)
* [http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/JohnLions/ The John Lions Chair in Operating Systems] (University of New South Wales)
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