George Coulouris (computer scientist)
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George Coulouris is a British computer scientist and the son of actor George Coulouris. He is Visiting Professor in Residence at University of Cambridge and the author of a textbook in distributed systems. He developed em, the Unix editor, which inspired Bill Joy to write vi.
[edit] Career
In 1960 George Coulouris graduated with an honours degree in Physics from University College London. He worked at IBM and other companies before joining Imperial College London as a lecturer in 1965.
In 1971 he joined Queen Mary College as a lecturer. He became a reader in 1973 and a professor in 1978.
(this section is incomplete - refer to his homepage for more information.)
[edit] Family
Prof Coulouris's name is of Greek heritage, as he is the son of actor George Coulouris, whose father was a Greek immigrant to Britain married to an English woman.
George Coulouris's sister is artist Mary-Louise Coulouris.
