UNIX Time-Sharing System: Document Preparation

Kernighan, Brian W.; Lesk, M. E.; Ossanna, J. F.

doi:10.1002/j.1538-7305.1978.tb02145.x

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“…In contrast, Unix took documentation very seriously. Before Unix, it was hard to imagine that a manual on an operating system could become a best seller, but Brian Kernighan wrote a number of popular books, some of which have been translated into a number of languages (Kernighan and Plauger 1974;Kernighan et al 1978;Aho et al 1979;Kernighan and Ritchie 1988;Kernighan and Pike 1999;Kernighan 2019). Brian's contributions made Unix accessible to the audience that ultimately made Unix the success that it has become.…”

Section: Publish or Perishmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At the fiftieth reunion of Unix, v Mike Lesk, a member of the Unix group (Lesk 1976;Kernighan et al 1978), and early pioneer in information retrieval (Salton and Lesk 1968;Lesk 1969), lexical resources (Lesk 1996) and what is now known as map search (Elliott and Lesk 1982), asked a question about machine learning. w Al Aho answered the question by making it clear that he would like to see an abstraction of machine learning that is more like automata theory.…”

Section: Deep Nets For the Unix Groupmentioning

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Emerging trends: Deep nets for poets

Church¹,

Yuan

Guo

et al. 2021

Nat. Lang. Eng.

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Deep nets have done well with early adopters, but the future will soon depend on crossing the chasm. The goal of this paper is to make deep nets more accessible to a broader audience including people with little or no programming skills, and people with little interest in training new models. A github is provided with simple implementations of image classification, optical character recognition, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, question answering (QA/SQuAD), machine translation, speech to text (SST), and speech recognition (STT). The emphasis is on instant gratification. Non-programmers should be able to install these programs and use them in 15 minutes or less (per program). Programs are short (10–100 lines each) and readable by users with modest programming skills. Much of the complexity is hidden behind abstractions such as pipelines and auto classes, and pretrained models and datasets provided by hubs: PaddleHub, PaddleNLP, HuggingFaceHub, and Fairseq. Hubs have different priorities than research. Research is training models from corpora and fine-tuning them for tasks. Users are already overwhelmed with an embarrassment of riches (13k models and 1k datasets). Do they want more? We believe the broader market is more interested in inference (how to run pretrained models on novel inputs) and less interested in training (how to create even more models).

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Emerging trends: Deep nets for poets

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Yuan

Guo

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Nat. Lang. Eng.

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“…7 A major addition in this area provided by the PWB/UNIX system is PWB/MM, a package of formatting " m a c r o s " that make the power of the U N I X text formatters available to a wider audience; P W B / M M has, by now, become the de facto Bell Laboratories standard text-processing macro package; it is used by hundreds of clerical and technical employees.…”

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UNIX Time-Sharing System: The Programmer's Workbench

Dolotta¹,

Haight²,

Mashey³

1978

Bell System Technical Journal

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Many, if not most, UNIX* systems are dedicated to specific projects and serve small, cohesive groups of (usually technically oriented) users. The Programmer's Workbench UNIX system (PWBIUNlX for short) is a facility based on the UNIX system that serves as a large, general-purpose, "util ity" computing service. It provides a convenient working environment and a uniform set of programming tools to a very diverse group of users. The PWBIUNlX system has several interesting characteristics:(i) Many of its facilities were built in close cooperation between developers and users.(ii) It has proven itself to be sufficiently reliable so that its users, who develop production software, have abandoned punched cards, private backup tapes, etc. (iii) It offers a large number of simple, understandable programdevelopment tools that can be combined in a varie/y of ways; users "package " these tools to create their own specialized environments. (iv) Most importantly, the above were achieved without compromising the basic elegance, simplicity, generality, and ease of use of the UNIX system.The result has been an environment that helps large numbers of users to get their work done, that improves their productivity, that adapts quickly to their individual needs, and that provides reliable service at a relatively low cost. This paper discusses some of the problems we encountered in building the PWBIUNlX system, how we solved them, how our system is used, and some of the lessons we learned in the process.' UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories. 2177

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