Bruce Ellis (born 1960, nicknamed Brucee) is a computer scientist who worked at

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during the 1980s and 90s. He was educated at the

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, Australia, where he earned First Class Honours with the University Medal. He worked there on the Basser branch of

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. This work continued at Bell Labs where he was involved in the development of the later research versions of

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, software for the Blit terminal, the

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and Inferno operating systems, as well as ventures into network processing (the Froggie). Recreationally he has also dabbled with

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, and with

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was responsible for the infamous Mark V Shaney in the early 1980s. After leaving Bell Labs he has been consulting and lecturing around the world while working on the OzInferno operating system as a continuation of the work he had done on the research version of Inferno. He is currently living in Sydney. Other works of his include the mash shell, 64 bit support for the Plan 9

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s suite, Plan9 Emulation Environment (9ee) for disparate platforms, and various

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interpreters currently used by commercial printer manufacturers.

External links

Home pageFroggieIWP9 2006Invited TalkUsing Inferno to Execute Java on Small Devices
by Bruce Ellis et al.

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