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Stephen Richard "Steve" Bourne (born 7 January 1944) is an English computer scientist based in the United States for most of his career. He is well known as the author of the Bourne shell (sh), which is the foundation for the standard command-line interfaces to Unix.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen R. Bourne | Born | (1944-01-07) 7 January 1944 (age 82) United Kingdom | 1.00 | infobox |
| Stephen R. Bourne | Education | King's College London (BSc) Trinity College, Cambridge (Dipl., PhD) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Stephen R. Bourne | Fields | Computer science | 1.00 | infobox |
| Stephen R. Bourne | Known for | ALGOL 68C CAMAL Advanced Debugger Bourne shell The Unix System ACM Queue | 1.00 | infobox |
| Stephen R. Bourne | Other name | Steve | 1.00 | infobox |
| Stephen R. Bourne | Workplaces | Bell Labs Silicon Graphics Digital Equipment Corporation Sun Microsystems Cisco Systems Association for Computing Machinery Icon Venture Partners | 1.00 | infobox |
| Stephen R. Bourne | related to External links | Lindsay | 0.60 | section |
| Stephen R. Bourne | related to External links | Bruce | 0.60 | section |
| Stephen R. Bourne | related to External links | December | 0.60 | section |
| Stephen R. Bourne | related to External links | Conversation | 0.60 | section |
| Stephen R. Bourne | related to External links | Bruce Lindsay | 0.60 | section |
| Stephen R. Bourne | related to External links | Interview | 0.60 | section |
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