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Encyclopedia > Brian Reid

Brian Keith Reid (1949- ) is a computer scientist most famous for developing the Scribe word processing system, the subject of his 1980 doctoral dissertation, for which he received the Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1982. Scribe was a pioneer in the use of descriptive markup. Reid presented a paper describing Scribe in the same conference session in 1981 in which Charles Goldfarb presented GML, the immediate predecessor of SGML. Reid's other principal interest has been networking and the development of the Internet. Illustration of a 15th century scribe This is about scribe, the profession. ... The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the worlds first scientific and educational computing society. ... Although many awards have added Grace Hoppers name to them since her death in 1992, the original Grace Murray Hopper Awards have been awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1971. ... Charles F. Goldfarb is known as the father of SGML, co-inventor of the concept of markup languages. ... GML may stand for: Generalized Markup Language Geography Markup Language Game Maker Language, the scripting language of Game Maker. ... The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is a metalanguage in which one can define markup languages for documents. ...


Reid received his B.A. from the University of Maryland and then worked in industry for some years before entering graduate school at Carnegie-Mellon University. From 1981-1986 he was a faculty member in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. During this period he and colleagues built the first Cisco router and founded Adobe Systems. Denied tenure, he was immediately hired by the Digital Equipment Corporation where he eventually became director of the Network Systems Laboratory. His laboratory created the first firewall in 1987 and the first high-powered internet search engine, AltaVista, in 1991. In 1987, he and John Gillmore created the alt. hierarchy on usenet. Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California that was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. ... Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering company in the American computer industry. ... In computing, a firewall is a piece of hardware and/or software which functions in a networked environment to prevent some communications forbidden by the security policy, analogous to the function of firewalls in building construction. ... AltaVista home page, 2004 The name AltaVista refers both to an Internet search engine company and to that companys search engine product. ... Usenet is a distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP network of the same name. ...


In 1999 he moved to Bell Labs' Silicon Valley site. When this laboratory was closed in 2002 he became Director of Operations at Google. He was fired in February 2004, nine days before Google's IPO, allegedly costing him US$38 million in stock options. Reid sued Google unsuccessfully for age discrimination. Google Inc. ...


Reid is a practicing Anglican and a member of the Society of Archbishop Justus. The term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. ...


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Reid said West Point was the first civil engineering university ever built in America and it was constructed to fill a need among America's Revolutionary Army for qualified engineers during the American Revolution war, which was fought from 1775 to 1783 between the American Revolutionary army and the British forces.
Reid revealed that he had no free tie in between subjects for as soon as one was done it was off to another classroom and another subject.
Reid, a self-driven man, told Sunday Newsday that he also had to do close quarters combat which was a fighting style designed by the US Navy Seals.
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