W. Richard Stevens

William Richard Stevens ( born February 5, 1951 in Luanshya, Zambia, † September 1, 1999 in Tucson, Arizona ) was an American author of Unix books, articles and RFCs.

Life

Richard Stevens was born in 1951 in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). His parents were Americans, his father worked as a metallurgist in the Roan Antelope Copper Mine in the Copperbelt. In 1956 the family returned to the United States.

Stevens studied aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan ( completion 1973) and Systems Engineering at the University of Arizona (M.Sc. 1979, Ph.D. 1982). He had his first contact with computers while studying engineering when he graduated in 1968 a Fortran IV course.

In 2000, Richard Stevens was posthumously awarded for his involvement with the " USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award", which his sister Claire and his wife Sally counter measures.

Works

His books are the standard works on the subject Unix and TCP / IP network programming.

  • Unix Network Programming, ISBN 0-13-949876-1
  • Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment ( APUE ), ISBN 0201563177 (second Edition by Stephen A. Rago, 2005, ISBN 0201433079 )
  • UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2, Second Edition: Interprocess Communications: ISBN 0-13-081081-9
  • TCP / IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols: ISBN 0201633469 ( German translation ISBN 3826650425 )
  • TCP / IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation: ISBN 020163354X
  • TCP / IP Illustrated, Volume 3: TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP, and the UNIX Domain Protocols: ISBN 020163354X
  • Allman, M., Paxson, V., Stevens, WR 1999. " TCP Congestion Control", RFC 2581
  • Gilligan, RE, Thomson, S., Bound, J., and Stevens, WR 1999. " Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6 ", RFC 2553
  • Stevens, WR, and Thomas, M. 1998. " Advanced Sockets API for IPv6 ", RFC 2292
  • Stevens, W. R., and Pendry, J.-S. In 1995. "Portals in 4.4BSD ", Proceedings of the 1995 Winter USENIX Technical Conference, pp. 1-10, New Orleans, La
  • Stevens, WR 1989. " Heuristics for Disk Drive Positioning in 4.3BSD ," Computing Systems, vol. 2, no 3, pp. 251-274 ( Summer )
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