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Peter H. 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. He has a 1963 PhD in Linguistics from New York University. 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).

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Books Authored by Peter Salus

The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin

Post date: 08 Oct 2007
Shows the reader just what went into the creation of open source and its worldwide network of contributors and users over the past 50 years.

Publication date: 01 Apr 2007
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic
Document Type: Book

The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin

Post date: 08 Oct 2007
Shows the reader just what went into the creation of open source and its worldwide network of contributors and users over the past 50 years.

Publication date: 01 Apr 2007
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic Document Type: Book

Book Categories

Computer Science

Introduction to Computer Science Introduction to Computer Programming Algorithms and Data Structures Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision Machine Learning Neural Networks Game Development and Multimedia Data Communication and Networks Coding Theory Computer Security Information Security Cryptography Information Theory Computer Organization and Architecture Operating Systems Image Processing Parallel Computing Concurrent Programming Relational Database Document-oriented Database Data Mining Big Data Data Science Digital Libraries Compiler Design and Construction Functional Programming Logic Programming Object Oriented Programming Formal Methods Software Engineering Agile Software Development Information Systems Geographic Information System (GIS)

Mathematics

Mathematics Algebra Abstract Algebra Linear Algebra Number Theory Numerical Methods Precalculus Calculus Differential Equations Category Theory Proofs Discrete Mathematics Theory of Computation Graph Theory Real Analysis Complex Analysis Probability Statistics Game Theory Queueing Theory Operations Research Computer Aided Mathematics

Supporting Fields

Web Design and Development Mobile App Design and Development System Administration Cloud Computing Electric Circuits Embedded System Signal Processing Integration and Automation Network Science Project Management

Operating System

Unix GNU/Linux FreeBSD iPhone iOS Android Windows

Programming/Scripting

Ada Assembly C / C++ Common Lisp Forth Java JavaScript Lua Rexx Microsoft .NET Perl PHP R Python Rebol Ruby Scheme Tcl/Tk

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