13 Oct
2022
13 Oct
'22
3:20 p.m.
One clue is that "The Second Pass of the Portable C Compiler" is dated
June 1979 and says on the title page, "John Lions, Bell Laboratories,
Murray Hill, New Jersey", so he must have been there then.
On 10/13/2022 06:08 AM, John P. Linderman wrote:
I can put a bound on John's early 80's
sabbatical. John stayed at my
house in Berkeley Heights (an easy walk to Murray Hill) while he was
looking for a place to rent when Marianne joined him. I bought the
house in 1980, so it had to be later than that. And John put us up
when we visited Australia in 1983, so it was before that. I'm guessing
1982, but that's just a guess.
On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 5:05 PM steve jenkin <sjenkin(a)canb.auug.org.au
<mailto:sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au>> wrote:
Berkeley Tague says he invited John to work with the USG in 1978
[ AUUG, below. Also by Ronda Hauben in multiple places ]
[ In two ‘recollections’ / history docs sourced from UNSW, ]
[ the first visit was misremembered as 1976 or 1977. ]
I was wondering when John's two other sabbaticals to Bells Labs were.
The Peter Ivanov interview with John in “Unix Review”, 1985, notes
two sabbaticals by then.
After writing the celebrated Commentary on the UNIX
Operating System in 1976,
Lions was asked to spend two sabbaticals at the Labs.
This comment in 2000 on “9fans” from Rob Pike
says John also visited in 1989,
but sadly his work by then had been affected.
<https://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=144372955601968&w=2>
Anyone know when the other visit was?
Presumably 1983 or 1984 if John took a semester off every 5 years.
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In AUUGN Oct 1995, V16 #5, there’s a collection of emails, an
‘interview’ with John
PDF pages 17 & 24
<https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN/AUUGN-V16.5.pdf>
Berkeley Tague says in 1978 he invited John to work with the USG.
then
He wanted to come to Murray Hill for his sabbatical so it
was a win/win situation.
He spent two or three summers at Bell Labs over the years
and supplied us with many of his graduate students
for sabbaticals and permanent employment.
Later:
AUUGN:
What have been the professional highlights of your career?
JL:
For myself, three sabbaticals at Bell Laboratories have
been highlights.
For my students, opportunities arose for employment at the
Laboratories.
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