Publication Credits

I have the following magazine credits:

Going Forth, PC Magazine Volume 1 Number 3.
Understanding UNIX, PC Magazine Volume 3 Number 10.
Assemblers Without Ulcers, PC Tech Journal Volume 2 Number 3.
Standards Everywhere, Byte, January 1992.
Building The Perfect Box, Linux Journal #36, April 1997.
Numerous reviews and short pieces for UNIX TODAY.

Understanding UNIX was the lead article of a special section, and only missed being the cover story because IBM released the ill-fated PC Junior that week. Assemblers Without Ulcers was for years standard course material at the Boston Computer Society's technical seminars.

I have the following book credits:

I was the principal researcher and author of Portable C and UNIX Systems Programming, ISBN 0-13-686494-5 from the Prentice-Hall Software series, 249pp. (the name "J. E. Lapin" appearing on the cover was a corporate fiction).

The Waite Group's 1987 book The UNIX Papers (ISBN 81262-22578, 517pp) features a paper by me entitled The Future of UNIX and Open Systems Standards. I was also the major technical reviewer for the book.

I conceived and edited The New Hacker's Dictionary (MIT Press, 1991, ISBN 0-262-18145-2). This book received enthusiastic reviews in The New York Times, PC Magazine, Byte, PC World, UNIX Review, IEEE Spectrum, and numerous other popular and technical magazines. In August 1993 the second edition was cited in Newsweek.

The second edition of The New Hacker's Dictionary came out September 1993 and, so far, has been equally successful. The book seems well on its way towards becoming an institution, and will probably outlive my tenure as editor. Sales to date are about 40,000 copies.

The advent of the September 1996 third edition led to interviews in Wired (August 1996) and People (October 1996).

In November 1996 O'Reilly Associates published the second edition of Learning GNU Emacs, ISBN 0-937175-84-6. I am a credited coauthor of this edition.

In early 1998, I was the editor of Linux Undercover, the compendium of Linux documentation published by Red Hat Software.

I have the following miscellaneous other credits:

Language I originated has been incorporated in the POSIX Draft proposed UNIX standard (re tape archive backup formats and extensions to multi-volume operation) and in the ANSI X3J11 Draft Proposed C Standard (re the asm() optional extension).

I have twice been a guest lecturer at the Institute For Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. I ran workshops there on Emacs and Internet for the technical staff and research scientists.

I was selected to be a member of the program committee for the first Conference on Freely Redistributable Software, held in Boston February 1996.

I was an invited speaker at Linux Kongress '97, the Atlanta Linux Showcase, and the first Perl Conference in 1997. My paper, The Cathedral And The Bazaar, was very well received. This paper was subsequently described by Netscape Communications, Inc., as a major factor in their decision to release their client software as open source.

I earned a design assistance credit in the 6.1 edition of Close Action (Tempest Games), a highly-regarded set of rules for simulation of Napoleonic-era naval warfare.

I have appeared as a supporting artist on two record albums: A Song of Gods Gone Mad (Daystar Records, 1980), and Full Circle (Third Day Records, 1995).