Everything about David Korn totally explained
David Korn is an American computer programmer, who is probably best known for creating the
Korn shell (
ksh), a
command line interface/
programming language.The Korn shell is a de facto standard for
UNIX-like systems and many other environments.
David Korn received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in
1965 and his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from
NYU's
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in
1969. After working on computer simulations of transsonic air foils, he switched fields to computer science and became a member of technical staff at
Bell Laboratories in
1976. He developed Korn shell in response to problems he and his colleagues had with the most commonly used shells at the time,
Bourne shell and
C shell. Korn shell is backward-compatible with Bourne shell, but takes a lot of ideas from C shell, such as history viewing and
vi-like command line editing.
Korn shell and Microsoft
Microsoft once included a version of the Korn shell produced by
Mortice Kern Systems in a UNIX integration package for
Windows NT. This version wasn't compatible with ksh88 (a Korn shell specification), and Korn mentioned this during a question and answer period of a Microsoft presentation during a
USENIX NT conference in
Seattle in
1997. Greg Sullivan, a Microsoft product manager who was participating in the presentation, not knowing who the commenter was, insisted that Microsoft had indeed chosen a "real" Korn shell. A polite debate ensued, with Sullivan continuing to insist that the man giving the criticisms was mistaken about the compatibility issues. Sullivan only backed down when an audience member stood up and mentioned that the man making the comments was none other than the eponymous David Korn.
Other software projects
Along with Korn shell, he's also known as the creator of
UWIN, an
X/Open library for
Win32 systems, similar to
Cygwin. Korn and Kiem-Phong Vo also codeveloped
sfio, a library for managing I/O streams.
Korn became a
Bell Labs fellow in
1984. He currently lives in
New York City and works for
AT&T Research in
Florham Park,
New Jersey.
Other David Korns
Computer Science
David will sometimes be confused with people named David Korn outside of world of computer science.
Academia
In an academic setting, other David Korns include
Stanford University Medical School past dean and professor emeritus, Dr. David Korn, and
Anderson University (South Carolina) Spanish professor Dr. David Korn. Former Foreign Service officer, David A. Korn is a writer and consultant on Middle Eastern and African issues and the author of Assassination in Khartoum (Indiana University Press, 1993), and Exodus Within Borders: An Introduction to the Crisis of Internal Displacement (Brookings Press, 1999). There is also another Dr. David Korn, affiliated with the Department of Public Health Sciences,
University of Toronto.
Accounting
According to
Internet sources, in the accounting world, there are at least a pair of individuals that share the name David Korn. One is David Korn, CPA, who is noted online in
July 21,
2003's edition of trade publication
Accounting Today as having worked with
New Jersey accounting firm M.D. Oppenheim & Co. Web searches also note that a David Korn, CPA is credited with contributing services to charitable organizations including Sharsheret and
openhousenewyork. (These references may be to the same David Korn, CPA.) Additional mention is made of a David Korn, MBA, who received his degree in Taxation from
Baruch College of the
City University of New York.
Entertainment
imdb cites five David Korns in the entertainment industry
,
the most notable being a writer for the
Kung Fu and
Police Story television series of the 1970s. The
New York Times website notes a David A. Korn, a screenwriter who wrote
Cash Crop.
Other
Some common misidentifications are with
David Corn, the Washington-based author and editor of
the Nation, as well as -- mostly in a humorous vein -- the drummer from the rock band
KORN, David (Silveria).
Internet sites also note a David Korn, who is a consultant to the
EPA’s
ENERGY STAR program, who has lectured and authored articles on electrical power management.
References
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