Peter H. Salus Explained

Peter H. Salus
Birth Date:1938
Birth Place: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

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

After serving as professor and dean at University of North Florida,[1] University of Toronto,[2] [3] University of Massachusetts where in 1967 he was involved in the founding of the Department of Linguistics,[4] [5] and Queens College, City University of New York,[6] 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.[7] He was one of the organizers of the 1996 conference on Freely Redistributable Software in Cambridge.[8] 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.[9] In December 1965 Salus attended a meeting of the Tolkien Society in New York.[10] 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.[11]

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

Notes and References

  1. https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1981/2/23/a-probe-of-the-mysteries-of-fallible-memory A probe of the mysteries of fallible memory
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. https://www.umass.edu/linguistics/history-department History of the Department
  5. 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
  6. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30161432?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Personalia for 1964-65
  7. Web site: Peter H. Salus – Author, Anniversaries. I'Reilly Conferences. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190416085545/https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon2008/public/schedule/speaker/25801. 16 April 2019.
  8. https://books.google.com/books?id=BB68Ql7ZY_AC&dq=Salus&pg=PA155 Free as in Freedom [Paperback]: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
  9. https://books.google.com/books?id=KQnQ9kf9ES8C&q=Salus&pg=PA241 W.H. Auden: Contexts for Poetry
  10. https://books.google.com/books?id=5wXvI4F54X8C&q=%22Peter+Salus%22&pg=PA1838 W. H. Auden: A Biography
  11. https://books.google.com/books?id=9eLCAgAAQBAJ&q=Salus&pg=PT574 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
  12. Reviews of On Language: Plato to von Humboldt:
  13. Reviews of Linguistics:
  14. Review of Pāṇini to Postal: A Bibliography in the History of Linguistics:
  15. Review of Language and the Language Arts:
  16. Review of A Quarter Century of Unix:
  17. Review of Casting the Net:
  18. Review of Handbook of Programming Languages:

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