Doug McIlroy vs Chuck Norris

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

Along a similar vein -- though for cryptography, not *nix -- please enjoy
everyone's favorite cryptographer, Bruce Schneier:

http://www.schneierfacts.com/


On Thu, April 7, 2011 12:32 pm, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
> For those of you who are unfortunate enough never to have met him, let
> me just say that Doug is one of those giants whose shoulders we are always
> standing on.
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> However, he is a quiet, humble giant, and if you never studied the
> history of Unix, or computer science in general you probably would not know
> them, since Doug would certainly would not volunteer to tell you his
> contributions.
>
> Last year I went to a presentation up at DSLUG in Hanover and there was
> Doug sitting in the audience. After the presentation I was talking to
> some of his students and mentioned something about Doug's contributions and
> they were astonished. He had never mentioned his past to them in class.
>
> I was proud to be the chairman of the USENIX awards committee the year
> we offered the two awards (STUG and Lifetime Achievement) to Doug, but even
> those awards could not top this list:
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> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sinclair/doug/
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>
> Warmest regards,
>
>
> maddog
>
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