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Steve Bourne is currently the chief technology officer at El Dorado Ventures. Internationally known for his work on the UNIX operating system, he designed the UNIX Command Language -– commonly called the “Bourne Shell” -– that is widely used as a scripting language in the UNIX programming environment. In 1983, Bourne published The UNIX System, one of the first widely used texts on the effective use of UNIX. Bourne has also served in senior management positions at Cisco Systems, where he was director of engineering for enterprise network management; Sun Microsystems, where he was responsible for the Solaris 2.0 release; Digital Equipment Corporation, where he developed the first RISC-based workstation for DEC; and Silicon Graphics, where he was one of the company’s first employees and served as director of software responsible for their first product to market.

Bourne has a B.Sc. in Mathematics from King’s College London, a Diploma in Computer Science from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Trinity College in Cambridge, England. He is also a past president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

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