Bruce Jay Nelson (January 19, 1952 - September 19, 1999) was an American computer scientist who, while pursuing his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University and working at Xerox PARC, developed the concept of the remote procedure call together with Andrew Birrell, described in their 1984 paper Implementing Remote Procedure Calls that became a landmark of distributed systems research. Nelson graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 1974 and earned a master's degree from Stanford in 1976 before completing his PhD at Carnegie Mellon in 1982, and he later became chief science officer at Cisco Systems in 1996, a position he held until his death in 1999.
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What did the 1984 paper by Bruce Jay Nelson and Andrew Birrell cover?
It describes a working remote procedure call package and the design choices behind it.
The paper is Implementing Remote Procedure Calls by Andrew Birrell and Bruce Jay Nelson, published in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems in February 1984. Its abstract presents remote procedure calls as a useful paradigm for communication across a network between programs written in a high-level language. The paper describes a package providing a remote procedure call facility, the options that face the designer of such a package, and the decisions the authors made. It covers the overall structure of their mechanism, their facilities for binding clients, the transport level communication protocol, some performance measurements, and optimizations used to achieve high performance and to minimize the load on servers with many clients.
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Bruce Jay Nelson (January 19, 1952, September 19, 1999) was an American computer scientist best known as the inventor of the remote procedure call concept for computer network communications.
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