W. Richard Stevens
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W. Richard Stevens (1951 Luanshya, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) - September 1 1999) was one of the most famous and widely acclaimed authors of UNIX and TCP/IP books.
Books
- 1990 - UNIX Network Programming - ISBN 0-139-49876-1
- 1992 - Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment - ISBN 0-201-56317-7
- 1994 - TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols - ISBN 0-201-63346-9
- 1995 - TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation (with Gary R. Wright) - ISBN 0-201-63354-X
- 1996 - TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3: TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP, and the UNIX Domain Protocols - ISBN 0-201-63495-3
- 1998 - UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1, Second Edition: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI - ISBN 0-134-90012-X
- 1999 - UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2, Second Edition: Interprocess Communications - ISBN 0-130-81081-9
RFCs
Stevens also co-authored several IETF Request for Comments (RFC) documents — informational documents for IPv6 updates to the Berkeley sockets API and a standards document for TCP congestion control.
- Stevens, W. R., and Thomas, M. 1998. "Advanced Sockets API for IPv6," RFC 2292
- Gilligan, R. E., Thomson, S., Bound, J., and Stevens, W. R. 1999. "Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6," RFC 2553
- Allman, M., Paxson, V., Stevens, W. R. 1999. "TCP Congestion Control," RFC 2581
External links
- Stevens' former homepage (http://www.kohala.com/start)
- Guru of the Unix gurus (http://dir.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/09/01/rich_stevens/index.html) by Rachel Chalmers (September 12000) at Salon.com
- Stevens was not just a UNIX and TCP/IP guru. He was also a wonderful baker of chocolate desserts. His Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies (http://www.kohala.com/start/recipes/ultimatecookie.html) go well with reading any of his textbooks.
- Usenet post of obituary (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=7qt2rn%24dfd%241%40agate-ether.berkeley.edu&filter=0)