Geoff Collyer is a Canadian computer scientist. He is the senior author of C News, a protocol-neutral news transport, and the designer of NOV, the News Overview database (article index) used by all modern newsreaders. In the past he worked as a Unix system programmer, but since 1994, while at Bell Labs, has been living on and developing Plan 9. Computer science (informally: CS or compsci) is, in its most general sense, the study of computation and information processing, both in hardware and in software. ... C News is a news server package, written by Geoff Collyer, assisted by Henry Spencer, at the University of Toronto as a replacement for B News. ... NOV, or News Overview, is a widely deployed indexing method for Usenet articles, also found in some Internet email implementations. ... A database is a collection of information stored in a computer in a systematic way, such that a computer program can consult it to answer questions. ... A Newsreader or Newscaster is a radio or television presenter whose role it is to read the news. ... UNIX is a portable, multi-tasking and multi-user computer operating system originally developed by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ... Bell Telephone Laboratories or Bell Labs was originally the research and development arm of the United States Bell System, and was the premier corporate facility of its type, developing a range of revolutionary technologies from telephone switches to specialized coverings for telephone cables, to the transistor. ... Glenda the Plan 9 bunny Plan 9 is an operating system descended from Unix and developed by Bell Laboratories. ...

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• http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/