Peter H. Salus
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Peter H. Salus is a linguist, computer scientist, historian of technology, author and editor of books on computing. He has conducted research in germanistics, language acquisition and computer languages.
After an intense academic career serving as professor and dean he is now largely retired. He has also been Executive Director of the USENIX Association and Vice President of the Free Software Foundation as well as working for several high tech startups.
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
- Packet Communication (Robert Metcalfe, David Walden, Peter H. Salus)
- A Quarter Century of UNIX (Addison Wesley, June 1, 1994; ISBN 0201547775)
- Casting the Net (Addison-Wesley, March 1995; ISBN 0201876744)
- Handbook of Programming Languages (ed., four volumes: ISBN 1578700086, ISBN 1578700094, ISBN 1578700108, ISBN 1578700116)