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Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment. Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment is a computer programming book by W. Richard Stevens describing the application programming interface of the UNIX family of operating systems.  The book illustrates UNIX application programming in the C programming language.

The first edition of the book was published by Addison-Wesley in 1992. It covered programming for the two popular families of the Unix operating system, the Berkeley Software Distribution (in particular 4.3 BSD and 386BSD) and AT&T's UNIX System V (particularly SVR4). The book covers system calls for operations on single file descriptors, special calls like ioctl that operate on file descriptors, and operations on files and directories. It covers the stdio section of the C standard library, and other parts of the library as needed. The several chapters concern the APIs that control processes, process groups, daemons, inter-process communication, and signals. One chapter is devoted to the Unix terminal control and another to the pseudo terminal concept and to libraries like termcap and curses that build atop it.  Stevens adds three chapters giving more concrete examples of Unix programming: he implements a database library, communicates with a PostScript printer, and with a modem.  The book does not cover network programming: this is the subject of Stevens's 1990 book UNIX Network Programming and his subsequent three-volume TCP/IP Illustrated.

Stevens died in 1999, leaving a second edition incomplete. With the increasing popularity and technical diversification of Unix derivatives, and largely compatible systems like the Linux environment, the code and coverage of Stevens's original became increasingly outdated.  Working with Stevens's unfinished notes,  Stephen A. Rago completed a second edition which Addison-Wesley published in 2005. This added support for FreeBSD, Linux, Sun's Solaris, and Apple's Darwin, and added coverage of multithreaded programming with POSIX Threads.  The second edition features a foreword by Dennis Ritchie and a Unix-themed Dilbert strip by Scott Adams.

The book has been widely lauded as well written, well crafted, and comprehensive. It received a "hearty recommendation" in a Linux Journal review.

OSNews describes it as "one of the best tech books ever published" in  a review of the second edition.

Editions
 Advanced Programming in the UNIX environment, first edition, W. Richard Stevens, Addison-Wesley, 1992, 
 Advanced Programming in the UNIX environment, second edition, W. Richard Stevens and Stephen A. Rago, Addison-Wesley, 2005, 
 Advanced Programming in the UNIX environment, third edition, W. Richard Stevens and Stephen A. Rago, Addison-Wesley, 2013,

References

External links 
 Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment home page
 Interview  with 2nd. edition co-author Steven Rago, Ibrahim Haddad, Linux Planet, July 5, 2005
 Advanced UNIX Programming: An Interview with Stephen Rago
 Advanced Programming in the UNIX Env, 2nd Ed.
 REVIEW: Advanced Programming in the UNIX® Environment

1992 non-fiction books
Computer programming books
Unix books
Norcroft C compiler. The Norcroft C compiler (also referred to as the Norcroft compiler suite) in computing is a portable set of C/C++ programming tools written by Codemist, available for a wide range of processor architectures.

Norcroft C was developed by Codemist, established in November 1987 by a group of academics from the University of Cambridge and University of Bath; Arthur Norman, Alan Mycroft and John Fitch. Development took place from at least 1985; the company was dissolved in May 2016. The name Norcroft is derived from the original authors' surnames.

Supported architectures

Acorn C/C++ 

Acorn C/C++ was released for the  operating system, developed in collaboration with Acorn Computers.

INMOS Transputer C Compiler 

This compiler for the INMOS Transputer was developed in collaboration with Perihelion Software.

Cambridge Consultants XAP 

This compiler for Cambridge Consultants' XAP processor is another Norcroft compiler.

References

External links 
 Norcroft C Compiler at the Codemist website
 Acorn C/C++ Desktop Development Environment at the RISC OS Open website.

C (programming language) compilers
C++ compilers
Proprietary software
Acorn C/C++. Acorn C/C++ is a set of C/C++ programming tools for use under the  operating system. The tools use the Norcroft compiler suite and were authored by Codemist and Acorn Computers. The tools provide some facilities offered by a fully integrated development environment.

Acorn included a copy of the Norcroft compiler targeted at the ARM architecture for RISC OS in the following development software.

 Acornsoft ANSI C – 1988
 Acornsoft ANSI C (Release 2)
 Acorn ANSI C (Release 3) – 1989
 Acorn Desktop C (Release 4)
 Acorn C/C++ (Release 5) – 1995

History 

Acorn's work on ANSI C compilers was begun around 1987, with a commercial release in 1988 for its Archimedes computer.   and Desktop Assembler were released in 1991. Codemist worked primarily on the ANSI C standard, while Acorn concentrated on the  specifics and optimisation for the ARM. Both parties exchanged sources regularly.

The tools were originally developed by university academics Alan Mycroft and Arthur C Norman of Codemist. Their development was taken up by Acorn and subsequently taken over by Castle Technology, who later added the lacking C99 support. Castle funded further development by means of a subscription scheme. In early 2009, development and sales of the tools were transferred to RISC OS Open.

Subsequent enhancements have included adding the post-ARMv5 instructions to the standalone assembler tool, ObjAsm, and code generation by the C compiler to use those instructions where natural to do so from the language. In October 2020 a number of extensions to support the C18 standard were made available to developers.

Uses 

The Norcroft compiler can be used to produce  modules, as well as compiling parts of the operating system itself. Before beginning development of the Inform programming language, Graham Nelson originally used  to develop his text adventure Curses.

The suite of tools is currently the only means of building a working copy of , although it is ultimately intended that this will also be possible using a cross compiler, e.g. using the free software GCC system.

See also 

Arm Image Format

References

External links 

ROOL Desktop Development Environment – RISC OS Open

C (programming language) compilers
C++ compilers
Proprietary software
RISC OS programming tools
1988 software
Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute. The Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute (NBRRI) is a Government of Nigeria institute responsible for researching and developing road and building materials for the Nigerian building industry. The institute is under the Federal Ministry of Science and  Technology of Nigeria.

History
The institute replaced the West African Building Research Institute which was established in 1952 by building professionals from Ghana and Nigeria in Accra, Ghana. Membership of the institute was made up of building engineers from both countries. When Nigeria gained independence from Britain, the Nigerian members of the institute left the West African Building Research Institute to form the Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute in 1978.  The Ghanaian members formed the Building Research Institute of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Locations
The headquarter of NBRRI is in Abuja, Nigeria. There are four zonal offices that facilitates the institutes activities:
Eastern Zonal Office in Anambra State
Western Zonal Office in Ikoyi, Lagos
Northern Zonal Office in Kano, Kano State
National Liboratory & Production Complex in Otta, Ogun State

Nation building
The institute engages the Government of Nigeria on various policies that regulate and improve the quality of buildings in Nigeria. In May 2011 the Federal Government of Nigeria announced a Material Testing Laboratory to be set up, which would provide a facility for the testing of building material before use. The facility had become necessary due to the regular occurrence of collapsing buildings. The facility was to function as research and education centre for tertiary institutions and the construction industry.

Collaborations
NBRRI has research collaboration with other state and foreign agencies. In 2009, the institutes and its Ghanaian counterpart signed a memorandum of understanding to research into building and road construction materials. In June 2011, the NBRRI announced it was partnering with the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria for the construction of 1,000 housing units every federal state of Nigeria. The partnership required that all the buildings be constructed using alternative building materials that had been developed by the institute.

Achievements
In March 2011, the institute announced that it had developed a new technology for the moulding of bricks known as cement stabilized bricks technology. The new technology was to reduce the cost of building due to a cheap alternative building material that the technology used in the production of bricks.

See also
Building and Road Research Institute

References

Government of Nigeria
Economy of Nigeria
Transport research organizations
Dennis M. Bushnell. Dennis M. Bushnell is a NASA scientist and lecturer who retired in 2023 after 60 years of service to NASA. As chief scientist at NASA Langley Research Center for more than two decades, he was responsible for technical oversight and advanced program formulation. His work focused mainly on new approaches to environmental issues, in particular to climate issues. Bushnell has received numerous awards for his work. Bushnell has promoted research at NASA into LENR (low energy nuclear reactions, or cold fusion).

In 1998, Bushnell was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for viscous flow modeling and control, turbulent drag reduction, and advanced aeronautical concepts.

Education 
Bushnell obtained his M.E. degree from the University of Connecticut in 1963 and his M.S. degree from the University of Virginia in 1967, both in the field of Mechanical Engineering.

Publications 
Future Strategic Issues/Future Warfare [Circa 2025]

Bibliography

References

External links 
 Dennis M. Bushnell, BlueTech Forum
 Dennis Bushnell, Imagine Solutions Conference & Initiatives
 Dennis M. Bushnell, lifeboat foundation
 
 Dennis Bushnell as guest in The Space Show, aired on April 27, 2008
 5 Questions for Dennis M. Bushnell (Chief Scientist at NASA) on the U.S. Space Shuttle Program, July 19, 2010, www.britannica.com
 Dennis Bushnell: Conquering Climate Change, The Futurist, May–June, 2010, World Future Society
 Dennis Bushnell: Algae: A Panacea Crop?, The Futurist, March–April 2009 Vol. 43, No. 2, World Future Society
 Jim Hidges: For Bushnell, Green Is Global, Personal, NASA
 Denise Adams: Bushnell on the Environment: 'We should have changed things 20 years ago, NASA
 Dennis M. Bushnell Future Strategic Issues/Future Warfare Circa 2025

NASA people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Cold fusion
American scientists
David DiLaura. David L. DiLaura (Boulder, Colorado) is an American engineer, educator and pioneer in lighting calculation software.

He received his Bachelor of Science in physics from Wayne State University in Detroit in 1970, after which he worked for 10 years as an illuminating engineer at the architectural engineering firm of Smith, Hinchman & Grylls. During this time he was also visiting lecturer in illuminating engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he taught for the first time in 1972.

In 1981 he founded Lighting Technologies, Inc. in Boulder, Colorado, where he directed the development of Lumen Micro. At the same time he was appointed Associate Professor Adjunct of Architectural Engineering in the College of Engineering at University of Colorado, and established its lighting education program. He was appointed Senior Instructor at University of Colorado in January 1994, and gave up daily management responsibilities at Lighting Technologies. He was Professor and Associate Chair for Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado. In 2007, after 27 years of teaching, he retired from the university and joined Acuity Brands as Principal Illuminating Engineer.

DiLaura is a Fellow and Gold Medalist of the Illuminating Engineering Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of Tau Beta Pi, and has his LC. He has been topic editor of the 8th and 9th editions of the IES Lighting Handbook and editor of the 10th edition, he has published 42 technical papers, a translation and analysis of Johann Lambert's seminal Latin work "Photometria", authored "A History of Light and Lighting", and for eight years was Editor-in-Chief of LEUKOS, the journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society.

He was inducted into the Architectural Lighting Hall of Fame in 2001, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Colorado in 2008.

Works

References

21st-century American engineers
Living people
People from Boulder, Colorado
Year of birth missing (living people)
Jim Williams (analog designer). James M. Williams (April 14, 1948 – June 12, 2011) was an analog circuit designer and technical author who worked for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1968–1979), Philbrick, National Semiconductor (1979–1982) and Linear Technology Corporation (LTC) (1982–2011). He wrote over 350 publications relating to analog circuit design, including five books, 21 application notes for National Semiconductor, 62 application notes for Linear Technology, and over 125 articles for EDN Magazine.

Williams suffered a stroke on June 10 and died on June 12, 2011.

Bibliography (partial)

For a complete bibliography, see.

See also
Paul Brokaw
Barrie Gilbert
Howard Johnson (electrical engineer)
Bob Pease — analog electronics engineer, technical author, and colleague. Pease died in an automobile accident after leaving Williams' memorial.
Bob Widlar — pioneering analog integrated circuit designer, technical author, early consultant to Linear Technology Corporation
Building 20 — legendary MIT building where Jim Williams had a design lab early in his career

References

External links
Archive of EDN articles.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20120319221312/http://www.centredaily.com/2011/06/15/2779140/linear-technology-staff-scientist.html
Linear Technology - Staff Scientist Jim Williams Remembered
Walker, Rob (2006). Interview with Bob Dobkin and Jim Williams (part of Stanford and the Silicon Valley Project). Recorded April 19, 2006.

American electrical engineers
Analog electronics engineers
Integrated circuits
1948 births
2011 deaths
American technology writers
Prue IIA. The Prue IIA is an American, high-wing, two-seat, T-tailed glider that was designed by Irving Prue and constructed by Ed Minghelle of Palmdale, California.

Design and development
Based on the Prue Two, the IIA incorporates many changes to the basic design, including a T-tail in place of a low-tail, fixed instead of retractable landing gear, a shorter two-piece wing instead of a three-piece wing and an empty weight that is  lighter. The Prue IIA was built by Minghelle between 1961 and 1964, culminating in a first flight in October 1964.

The Prue IIA has a  wing that employs a NACA 63-618 airfoil. The aircraft is of all-metal construction and seats two in tandem under a long single-piece canopy.

Only one Prue IIA was ever built.

Operational history
The Prue IIA was used to set several multi-place glider records. It held the world out-and-return record of  for a period of six months in 1967. A second world out-and-return record was set in 1972, flying  from Pearblossom, California. In 1967 it was also flown to a world multi-place declared goal record of .

The IIA was removed from the Federal Aviation Administration aircraft registry on 16 March 1989 and now belongs to the National Soaring Museum.

Aircraft on display
National Soaring Museum - sole example, listed as "in storage".

Specifications (Prue IIA)

See also

References

1960s United States sailplanes
Homebuilt aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1964
High-wing aircraft
T-tail aircraft
Clayton Folkerts. Clayton Folkerts  (1897–1964) was an American aircraft designer.

Early life 

Self-taught in aircraft design, Clayton built five aircraft at his family farm between 1916 and 1926, including a Henderson powered high-wing.

Folkerts worked for Central States Aero in Davenport, Iowa designing and building the prototype Monocoupe Model 22 in four months for Donald Arthur Luscombe. The Monocoupe would go on to become a popular racing aircraft of the 1920s and 1930s. By the end of 1928, 90% of all light planes and 10% of all licensed airplanes owned in the U.S. were Monocoupes, which remained in production until 1950.

Folkerts designed a series of winning air racers, the Folkerts SK-1, Folkerts SK-2, and Folkerts SK-3 that won at the National Air Races.

During World War II, Folkerts managed assault glider production. After the war, Folkerts returned to farming in Bristow, Iowa.

In 1993 Folkerts was inducted in the Iowa Aviation Museum Hall of Fame.
The 1928 Folkerts Henderson High Wing was restored in 1965 for display, and resides in the EAA Airventure Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

See also
Folkerts Henderson Highwing

References

External links 
Folkerts Specials and Monocoupes

American aerospace engineers
1897 births
1964 deaths
20th-century American engineers
Victorian Institute of Engineers. The Victorian Institute of Engineers (VIE) was founded in 1883 in Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

In 1885 there were 124 members including 40 civil engineers engaged in hydraulic, gas, electric and roadway engineering, about 10 in mining, six in marine, and about 68 mechanical engineers. the Railway engineer Robert Watson was the first president of the institute, while other presidents included William Charles Kernot, Joshua Thomas Noble (Noble) Anderson, James Alexander Smith and John Monash.

The purpose of the institute was for the creation of '...an Association where the Civil, Mechanical, Marine, Hydraulic, Mining, Agricultural, Gas, Electric, and other branches of Engineering not so enumerated will be represented, papers read, and all matters connected with these branches be discussed with a view to mutual improvement, and the cultivation of friendly relations between the Members of the different branches of the profession of Engineering'. Members were engaged in general engineering in any of its branches, and Junior Members, between the ages of 17 and 21, were students at the University or apprenticed or articled in any branch of engineering. The Institute's membership had fallen to only 99 in 1906 and in 1912 had only risen to 205. James Alexander Smith (c1864-1940), a consulting engineer was instrumental in calling for a national unification of engineering in 1909. The Institution of Engineers, Australia was eventually formed in 1919, and the Victorian Institute of Engineers continued as a separate but affiliated body until 1944.

Proceedings
The Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers from 1883-1948 have been digitised, funded by Engineering Heritage Victoria, and are searchable online through University of Melbourne, Library, Digitised Collection.

References

Engineering societies based in Australia
Seddon Mayfly. The Seddon Mayfly was a  tandem biplane of unusual construction. It was designed by Royal Navy Lieutenant John W. Seddon and A. G. Hackett  and built by Accles & Pollock.  When built it was the largest aeroplane in the world, but it failed to fly when tested.

Design and development
Design  of the Seddon Mayfly began in 1908, with the intention of attempting to win the prize for a flight between Manchester and London given by the Daily Mail. The design was based on a paper model, and Seddon took leave from the Navy to design and build and test the aircraft. It was built in Oldbury by Accles & Pollock, a company who specialised in the manufacture of steel tubing, and its structure made extensive use of intersecting pairs of steel hoops: over  of steel was used in its construction   The aircraft had two sets of biplane wings, the front pair of greater span than the aft pair. Control surfaces consisted of a forward-mounted biplane elevators and a pair of diamond-shaped rudders mounted between each set of wings.  The aircraft was intended to carry five passengers in addition to the pilot.   

It was powered by a pair of  N.E.C. water-cooled engines mounted side by side between the two sets of wings.  Each drove a single Beedle type tractor propeller.  These were made of sheet aluminium, with the semi-circular blades supported at the ends by attachment to a radial tube.

It was tested at the Midland Aero Club grounds at Dunstall Park near Wolverhampton but damaged an axle and failed to leave the ground. It was eventually taken apart by souvenir hunters.

Specifications

References 

Bibliography

Lewis, P., British Aircraft 1809-1914. London: Putnam, 1962
 Winchester, Jim. The World's Worst Aircraft. United States, NY: Metro Books, 2005. 

Biplanes
1910s British aircraft
Tandem-wing aircraft
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft
Unflown aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Accles & Pollock aircraft
St. Peter's Engineering College, Hyderabad. St. Peter's Engineering College (SPEC) is an initiative of the Shanta Educational Institutions, Hyderabad, Telangana State, India. The institute was established in 2007, is approved by the AICTE New Delhi, and is affiliated with Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad.

The institute has collaborations with foreign universities, student's exchange programs and direct intake into postgraduate is possible through this programme. The college started under the vision of chairman Shri T. Bala Reddy.

References

External links
 Official website

Engineering colleges in Hyderabad, India
All India Council for Technical Education
2007 establishments in Andhra Pradesh
Educational institutions established in 2007