Bruce Jay Nelson
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Bruce Jay Nelson (January 19, 1952–September 19, 1999) was the inventor of the remote procedure call for computer communications.
Bruce Nelson graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 1974, and went on to earn a master's in computer science from Stanford University in 1976, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1981. While pursuing his Ph.D., he developed the Remote Procedure Call (RPC), for which he was awarded the prestigious Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Software Systems Award. In 1996 he joined Cisco Systems as Chief Science Officer.[1][2]
He died September 19, 1999 due to complications from an aortic dissection[3], while on a business trip to Tel Aviv, Israel.[1]
He was an avid photographer, backpacker, free-diver and world traveler.[1]
[edit] Published papers
- Birrell, Andrew D.; Nelson, Bruce Jay (February 1984). "Implementing Remote Procedure Calls". ACM Transactions on Computer Systems Vol. 2 (No. 1). doi:.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Obituaries. Palo Alto Online (September 29, 1999). Retrieved on 2007-04-17.
- ^ The Dr. Bruce J. Nelson Distinguished Speaker Series. Harvey Mudd College. Retrieved on 2007-04-17.
- ^ Bruce Nelson Scholarship Fund at Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science. Retrieved on 2008-02-04.
