George Coulouris (computer scientist)

George F. Coulouris (15 November 1937 – 18 November 2024) was a British computer scientist and the son of actor George Coulouris. He was an emeritus professor of Queen Mary, University of London and formerly visiting professor in residence at University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. He was co-author of a textbook on distributed systems. He was instrumental in the development of ICL's Content Addressable File Store^[2] (CAFS) and he developed em, the Unix editor, which inspired Bill Joy to write vi.^[3][4][5]

George Coulouris
Born	(1937-11-15)15 November 1937 New York City, U.S.
Died	18 November 2024(2024-11-18) (aged 87) London, England
Nationality	British
Known for	Content Addressable File Store, Em Unix text editor, Distributed Systems textbook
Scientific career
Institutions	Queen Mary, University of London University of Cambridge[1] IBM Imperial College London
Website	www.coulouris.net www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~gc

Education

In 1960 George Coulouris graduated with an honours degree in Physics from University College London.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Coulouris worked at IBM and other companies before joining the London Institute of Computer Science as a Research Assistant and then Imperial College London as a lecturer in 1965.^{[citation needed]}

In 1971 he joined Queen Mary College as a lecturer. He became a reader in 1973 and a professor in 1978.^[6] He retired from Queen Mary in 1998, but continued as a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge.^[7]

Personal life and death

Coulouris's name is of Greek heritage, as he was the son of actor George Coulouris, whose father was a Greek immigrant to Britain married to an English woman. George Coulouris's sister was artist Mary Louise Coulouris.^[8]

George Coulouris died on 18 November 2024, at the age of 87.^[9]

Publications

See list of 101 publications on Google Scholar