John Lions - Work

Work

  • His most famous work, the Lions Book, was written as course notes for his operating systems course at UNSW.
  • Lions organised the Australian UNIX Users' Group and was its founding president from 1984 to 1986.
  • Lions was involved in the setting up of an annual conference for academics, the Australian Computer Science Conference and he was the editor of the Australian Computer Journal for six years and was made a fellow of the Australian Computer Society for his contribution.

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