Happy birthday, Unix!
12.11.2019 | Anna Ettlin
Prof. Timothy Roscoe was invited to speak at the Unix 50 event at Nokia Bell Labs, celebrating 50 years of Unix operating systems and providing an outlook to the future of computing.
Prof. Roscoe demonstrates how computer hardware has become more complex in the 50 years since the inception of Unix. Timothy Roscoe was joined on stage by Nokia Bell Labs' Markus Hofmann (Head of Applications Platforms and Software Systems Lab) and Marina Thottan (Head of E2E Network and Service Automation Lab). Unix 50 attendees on the famous Unix room leather couch
In October 2019, Nokia Bell Labs celebrated the 50th anniversary of Unix with the Unix 50 event, bringing together high-profile speakers to reflect on Unix’s past and to explore the future of computing. Timothy Roscoe, Full Professor in the Systems Group of the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, was invited to speak at the event.
In his talk, Prof. Roscoe reflected on how the iconic operating system has become a reference point for the development of operating systems and how its underlying principles might be applied to the increasingly complex and distributed hardware of modern computing. Watch a recording of his presentation below.
Nokia Bell Labs
The research institution Nokia Bell Labs dates all the way back to Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, to whom it also owes its name. Researches at Bell Labs were instrumental in many major scientific breakthroughs, including the discovery of the cosmic microwave background, the invention of the transistor, the creation of the programming languages C and C++ and the development of Unix.