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The Practice of Programming.
A shuttle mission nearly launched a gamma-ray telescope he designed.
He is a Canadian citizen and has never written a program
that uses cursor addressing.
This web page is now maintained at http://herpolhode.com/rob
Rob Pike,
well known for his appearances on ``Late Night with David Letterman'',
is also a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories
in Murray Hill, New Jersey,
where he has been since 1980, the same year he won the
Olympic silver medal in Archery.
In 1981 he wrote the first bitmap window
system for Unix systems, and has since written ten more. With
Bart Locanthi he designed the Blit terminal; with Brian
Kernighan he wrote
The Unix Programming Environment
and
The Practice of Programming.
A shuttle mission nearly launched a gamma-ray telescope he designed.
He is a Canadian citizen and has never written a program
that uses cursor addressing.
Much of time is spent working on the Plan 9 distributed operating system.
A paper with Phil Winterbottom about the Inferno virtual machine may be found here.
The PostScript slides for my talk, "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant", may be found here, or as PDF here.
The PDF slides for my talk, "An Introduction to Quantum Computation and Communication" may be found here.
In the mid-1970s, The Toronto Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada sponsored some research into light pollution, the brightening of the night sky by artificial illumination. Some of the material from that project, most significantly a pair of papers by Richard Berry and myself, are collected here.
A Unix implementation of Newsqueak may be found here.
Notes from a course called "Construction of Concurrent Systems Software" are available here: Lecture 1, Lecture 3, Lecture 5. (Even-numbered lectures were given by Sape Mullender, but the odd-numbered ones are comprehensible without them.)
Affiliated with the Computing Sciences Research Center.
