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'''Peter H. Salus''' is a [[linguistics|linguist]], [[computer science|computer scientist]], [[history of science and technology|historian of technology]], [[author]] in many fields, and an editor of books and journals. He has conducted research in [[germanistics]], [[language acquisition]], and [[computer languages]]. He has a 1963 PhD in Linguistics from [[New York University]].
'''Peter Henry Salus''' is a [[linguistics|linguist]], [[computer scientist]], [[history of science and technology|historian of technology]], author in many fields, and an editor of books and journals. He has conducted research in [[germanistics]], [[language acquisition]], and [[computer language]]s.


==Education and career==
After an intense academic career serving as [[professor]] and [[dean (education)|dean]] at several universities, he is now largely retired. He has also been Executive Director of both the [[USENIX]] Association and the [[Sun User Group]], and Vice President of the [[Free Software Foundation]]; in addition, he has worked for several high tech startups. From 1987 to 1996, he was Managing Editor of the technical journal ''Computing Systems'' ([[MIT Press]] and the USENIX Association).
Salus has a 1963 PhD in linguistics from [[New York University]]. His dissertation was ''The Compound Noun in Indo-European: A Survey''.<ref>{{citation|doi=10.1515/ling.1965.3.11.91|issue=11|journal=Linguistics|pages=91–117|title=Abstracts of dissertations|volume=3|year=1965}}</ref>

After serving as professor and [[dean (education)|dean]] at [[University of North Florida]],<ref>[https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1981/2/23/a-probe-of-the-mysteries-of-fallible-memory A probe of the mysteries of fallible memory], Macleans, 23 February 1981</ref> [[University of Toronto]],<ref>[https://www.computerworld.com/article/2524456/unix-turns-40--the-past--present-and-future-of-a-revolutionary-os.html?page=2 Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS], Computerworld, 4 June 2009</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=JDDyZJWheHsC&q=%22Peter+Salus%22&pg=PR8 Studies out in Left Field: Defamatory essays presented to James D. McCawley], JohnBenjamins Publishing Company, 1992 reprint of 1971 book, page viii</ref> [[University of Massachusetts]] where in 1967 he was involved in the founding of the Department of Linguistics,<ref>[https://www.umass.edu/linguistics/history-department History of the Department], UMass</ref><ref>[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Barbara_Partee/publication/239538862_A_History_of_the_UMass_Linguistics_Department_to_1999/links/546bf8650cf2f5eb1809281e/A-History-of-the-UMass-Linguistics-Department-to-1999.pdf A History of the UMass Linguistics Department to 1999], 1999, [[Barbara Partee]]</ref> and [[Queens College, City University of New York]],<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/30161432?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Personalia for 1964-65], Monatshefte, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Jan. 1965), pp. 17-40</ref> he is now largely retired.

He has also been executive director of both the [[USENIX]] Association and the [[Sun User Group]], and Vice President of the [[Free Software Foundation]].<ref name="Ref1">{{cite web|url=https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon2008/public/schedule/speaker/25801|website=I'Reilly Conferences|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416085545/https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon2008/public/schedule/speaker/25801|archive-date=16 April 2019|title=Peter H. Salus – Author, Anniversaries}}</ref> He was one of the organizers of the 1996 conference on Freely Redistributable Software in Cambridge.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=BB68Ql7ZY_AC&dq=Salus&pg=PA155 Free as in Freedom &#91;Paperback&#93;: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software], Sam Williams, O'Reilly, page 155-158</ref> In addition, he has worked for several high tech startups. From 1987 to 1996, he was Managing Editor of the technical journal ''Computing Systems'' ([[MIT Press]] and the USENIX Association).

==Contributions==
In 1966, Salus worked with [[W. H. Auden]] on a translation of the ''[[Poetic Edda]]''. During his work he discovered that the "Airman's Alphabet" in Auden's work was derived from the Eddic poems or more likely the translation by [[Bruce Dickins]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=KQnQ9kf9ES8C&q=Salus&pg=PA241 W.H. Auden: Contexts for Poetry], Peter Edgerly Firchow, page 241</ref> In December 1965 Salus attended a meeting of the Tolkien Society in New York.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=5wXvI4F54X8C&q=%22Peter+Salus%22&pg=PA1838 W. H. Auden: A Biography], Humphrey Carpenter, page 1838</ref> Auden and Salus' comments and intentions to write a book on [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] were reported by ''[[The New Yorker]]'' and ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''. However, Tolkien disapproved of a book on himself and was critical of Auden's reported remarks on his house and Salus' observations on the shape of [[Middle-earth]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=9eLCAgAAQBAJ&q=Salus&pg=PT574 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien], [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]</ref>


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).
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).


[[Image:Peter-salus-1000000000.jpg|right|225px|thumb|Peter Salus at the 1,000,000,000-second [[UNIX time]] event, in Copenhagen on 9th September 2001.]]
[[Image:Peter-salus-1000000000.jpg|left|225px|thumb|Peter Salus at the 1,000,000,000-second [[UNIX time]] event, in Copenhagen on 9 September 2001.]]


==Partial bibliography==
== Partial bibliography ==
*''Völuspá : The Song of the Sybil'' (translated by Paul B. Taylor and W. H. Auden, Icelandic text edited by Peter H. Salus and Paul B. Taylor, 1968)
*''Völuspá : The Song of the Sybil'' (translated by Paul B. Taylor and W. H. Auden, Icelandic text edited by Peter H. Salus and Paul B. Taylor, 1968)
*''On Language Plato to Humboldt'' (Holt, Reinholt, and Winston, Inc., 1969)
*''On Language: Plato to von Humboldt'' (Holt, Reinholt, and Winston, Inc., 1969)<ref>Reviews of ''On Language: Plato to von Humboldt'':
*{{citation|last=Rocher|first=Rosane|date=October–December 1969|doi=10.2307/596986|issue=4|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|jstor=596986|page=820|title=none|volume=89}}
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*''For W. H. Auden, February 21, 1972'' (ed. Peter H. Salus and Paul B. Taylor, 1972)
*{{citation|last=Koerner|first=E. F. K.|date=January 1970|doi=10.1016/0024-3841(70)90049-5|journal=Lingua|pages=419–431|title=none|volume=25}}
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*''A Quarter Century of UNIX'' (Addison Wesley, June 1, 1994; ISBN 0-201-54777-5)
*{{citation|last=Zimmer|first=Karl E.|date=February 1973|issue=3|journal=Romance Philology|jstor=44940729|pages=592–594|title=none|volume=26}}</ref>
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*''Casting the Net'' (Addison-Wesley, March 1995; ISBN 0-201-87674-4)
*''Linguistics'' (Bobbs-Merrill, 1969)<ref>Reviews of ''Linguistics'':
*''Packet Communication'' (Robert Metcalfe, David Walden, Peter H. Salus; Annabooks/Rtc Books, 1996; ISBN 1-57398-033-1)
*{{citation|last=Blake|first=Robert W.|date=March 1970|doi=10.2307/812081|issue=3|journal=The English Journal|jstor=812081|pages=431–432|title=none|volume=59}}
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*''Handbook of Programming Languages'' (ed.; Indianapolis, IN: Macmillan Technical Pub., 1998; four volumes: ISBN 1-57870-008-6, ISBN 1-57870-009-4, ISBN 1-57870-010-8, ISBN 1-57870-011-6)
*{{citation|last=Percival|first=W. Keith|date=March 1971|doi=10.2307/412195|issue=1|journal=Language|jstor=412195|pages=181–185|title=none|volume=47}}</ref>
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*''Big Book of IPv6 Addressing RFCs'' (Morgan Kaufmann, 2000; ISBN 0-12-616770-2)
*''Pāṇini to Postal: A Bibliography in the History of Linguistics'' (Linguistic Research, 1971)<ref>Review of ''Pāṇini to Postal: A Bibliography in the History of Linguistics'':
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*''The Daemon, the Gnu & the Penguin'' (Reed Media Services, Sept. 2008; ISBN 978-0-9790342-3-7) — previously [http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20051013231901859 serialised] on the [[Groklaw]] website
*{{citation|last=Koerner|first=E. F. K.|date=November 1973|issue=4|journal=Foundations of Language|jstor=25000743|pages=589–594|title=none|volume=10}}</ref>
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*''For W. H. Auden, 21 February 1972'' (ed. Peter H. Salus and Paul B. Taylor, 1972)
*''Language and the Language Arts'' (with James Flood, Prentice-Hall, 1984)<ref>Review of ''Language and the Language Arts'':
*{{citation|last=Baumann|first=James F.|date=April 1984|issue=8|journal=The Reading Teacher|jstor=20198599|pages=786–788|title=none|volume=37}}</ref>
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*''A Quarter Century of UNIX'' (Addison Wesley, 1 June 1994; {{ISBN|0-201-54777-5}})<ref>Review of ''A Quarter Century of Unix'':
*{{citation|last=Yee|first=Danny|date=April 1995|journal=Linux Journal|page=Article 11|title=From Space Travel to Plan 9 and Linux|url=https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=324816|volume=12}}</ref>
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*''Casting the Net'' (Addison-Wesley, March 1995; {{ISBN|0-201-87674-4}})<ref>Review of ''Casting the Net'':
*{{citation|last=Yee|first=Danny|date=September 1995|journal=Linux Journal|page=Article 8|title=From ARPANET to Internet and Beyond|url=https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=324892|volume=17}}</ref>
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*''Handbook of Programming Languages'' (ed.; Indianapolis, IN: Macmillan Technical Pub., 1998, {{LCCN|97081204}}; four volumes: {{ISBN|1-57870-008-6}}, {{ISBN|1-57870-009-4}}, {{ISBN|1-57870-010-8}}, {{ISBN|1-57870-011-6}})<ref>Review of ''Handbook of Programming Languages'':
*{{citation|title=Review|url=https://vanderburg.org/old_pages/HoPLreview.html|first=Glenn|last=Vanderburg|journal=[[;login:]]}}</ref>
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*''Big Book of IPv6 Addressing RFCs'' (Morgan Kaufmann, 2000; {{ISBN|0-12-616770-2}})
*''The Complete April Fools' Day RFCs'' (Peer-to-Peer Communications LLC, 2007; {{ISBN|978-1-57398-042-5}})
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*''The Daemon, the Gnu & the Penguin'' (Reed Media Services, Sept. 2008; {{ISBN|978-0-9790342-3-7}}) – previously [http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20051013231901859 serialised] on the [[Groklaw]] website
*''The ARPANET Sourcebook: The Unpublished Foundations of the Internet'' (Peer-to-Peer Communications LLC, 2008; {{ISBN|978-1-57398-000-5}})


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Peter H. Salus
Salus with a Tux pin, at IT-Højskolen in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002
Born1938
Vienna

Peter Henry Salus is a linguist, computer scientist, historian of technology, author in many fields, and an editor of books and journals. He has conducted research in germanistics, language acquisition, and computer languages.

Education and career

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Salus has a 1963 PhD in linguistics from New York University. His dissertation was The Compound Noun in Indo-European: A Survey.[1]

After serving as professor and dean at University of North Florida,[2] University of Toronto,[3][4] University of Massachusetts where in 1967 he was involved in the founding of the Department of Linguistics,[5][6] and Queens College, City University of New York,[7] he is now largely retired.

He has also been executive director of both the USENIX Association and the Sun User Group, and Vice President of the Free Software Foundation.[8] He was one of the organizers of the 1996 conference on Freely Redistributable Software in Cambridge.[9] In addition, he has worked for several high tech startups. From 1987 to 1996, he was Managing Editor of the technical journal Computing Systems (MIT Press and the USENIX Association).

Contributions

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In 1966, Salus worked with W. H. Auden on a translation of the Poetic Edda. During his work he discovered that the "Airman's Alphabet" in Auden's work was derived from the Eddic poems or more likely the translation by Bruce Dickins.[10] In December 1965 Salus attended a meeting of the Tolkien Society in New York.[11] Auden and Salus' comments and intentions to write a book on J. R. R. Tolkien were reported by The New Yorker and The Daily Telegraph. However, Tolkien disapproved of a book on himself and was critical of Auden's reported remarks on his house and Salus' observations on the shape of Middle-earth.[12]

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).

Peter Salus at the 1,000,000,000-second UNIX time event, in Copenhagen on 9 September 2001.

Partial bibliography

[edit]
  • Völuspá : The Song of the Sybil (translated by Paul B. Taylor and W. H. Auden, Icelandic text edited by Peter H. Salus and Paul B. Taylor, 1968)
  • On Language: Plato to von Humboldt (Holt, Reinholt, and Winston, Inc., 1969)[13]
  • Linguistics (Bobbs-Merrill, 1969)[14]
  • Pāṇini to Postal: A Bibliography in the History of Linguistics (Linguistic Research, 1971)[15]
  • For W. H. Auden, 21 February 1972 (ed. Peter H. Salus and Paul B. Taylor, 1972)
  • Language and the Language Arts (with James Flood, Prentice-Hall, 1984)[16]
  • A Quarter Century of UNIX (Addison Wesley, 1 June 1994; ISBN 0-201-54777-5)[17]
  • Casting the Net (Addison-Wesley, March 1995; ISBN 0-201-87674-4)[18]
  • Handbook of Programming Languages (ed.; Indianapolis, IN: Macmillan Technical Pub., 1998, LCCN 97-81204; four volumes: ISBN 1-57870-008-6, ISBN 1-57870-009-4, ISBN 1-57870-010-8, ISBN 1-57870-011-6)[19]
  • Big Book of IPv6 Addressing RFCs (Morgan Kaufmann, 2000; ISBN 0-12-616770-2)
  • The Complete April Fools' Day RFCs (Peer-to-Peer Communications LLC, 2007; ISBN 978-1-57398-042-5)
  • The Daemon, the Gnu & the Penguin (Reed Media Services, Sept. 2008; ISBN 978-0-9790342-3-7) – previously serialised on the Groklaw website
  • The ARPANET Sourcebook: The Unpublished Foundations of the Internet (Peer-to-Peer Communications LLC, 2008; ISBN 978-1-57398-000-5)

References

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  1. ^ "Abstracts of dissertations", Linguistics, 3 (11): 91–117, 1965, doi:10.1515/ling.1965.3.11.91
  2. ^ A probe of the mysteries of fallible memory, Macleans, 23 February 1981
  3. ^ Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS, Computerworld, 4 June 2009
  4. ^ Studies out in Left Field: Defamatory essays presented to James D. McCawley, JohnBenjamins Publishing Company, 1992 reprint of 1971 book, page viii
  5. ^ History of the Department, UMass
  6. ^ A History of the UMass Linguistics Department to 1999, 1999, Barbara Partee
  7. ^ Personalia for 1964-65, Monatshefte, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Jan. 1965), pp. 17-40
  8. ^ "Peter H. Salus – Author, Anniversaries". I'Reilly Conferences. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019.
  9. ^ Free as in Freedom [Paperback]: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software, Sam Williams, O'Reilly, page 155-158
  10. ^ W.H. Auden: Contexts for Poetry, Peter Edgerly Firchow, page 241
  11. ^ W. H. Auden: A Biography, Humphrey Carpenter, page 1838
  12. ^ The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien
  13. ^ Reviews of On Language: Plato to von Humboldt:
  14. ^ Reviews of Linguistics:
  15. ^ Review of Pāṇini to Postal: A Bibliography in the History of Linguistics:
    • Koerner, E. F. K. (November 1973), Foundations of Language, 10 (4): 589–594, JSTOR 25000743{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  16. ^ Review of Language and the Language Arts:
    • Baumann, James F. (April 1984), The Reading Teacher, 37 (8): 786–788, JSTOR 20198599{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  17. ^ Review of A Quarter Century of Unix:
  18. ^ Review of Casting the Net:
  19. ^ Review of Handbook of Programming Languages:
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