“Brendan Kehoe”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Kehoe wrote two books and a number of technology articles in the specialist press (e.g., Boardwatch Magazine) on the topic of the Internet. His first book, Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide, first published by Prentice Hall in July 1992,^[1] was the first mass-published user's guide to the Internet. Zen was written while Kehoe was still at Widener; he struck a bargain with the publishers to ensure that the original edition of the book would remain free-of-charge in the internet for everyone to access.^[1] In a survey^[3] taken by PC Magazine for the twentieth anniversary of the PC, Zen and the Art of the Internet was listed as one of the "top sci-fi/tech non-fiction books of the past twenty years" (1981–2001). It also appeared on Sergey Brin's "Favorite Booklist".^[4] As one of the first substantial books freely available for reuse on the Internet, Zen predated and helped to inspire the free culture movement. Parts of it were reworked into other works including the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Guide to the Internet.

Kehoe was a dedicated and detailed programmer, who, as a student, volunteered changes to one of the most complex pieces of free software in the world at the time, the GNU C++ Compiler and Library. His unusual skill at wrangling this code led to a full-time job as a key employee of Cygnus Support in Silicon Valley in 1992, improving, supporting and documenting this code base. By 1995 he was managing the entire GNU C++ group at Cygnus.

Later in life he volunteered doing IT support for his local school, the Dalkey School Project. This led to positions as a member of its Board of Management, and from there to being Chairperson of the school.^[5] In 2010 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Educate Together.^[6]

He was described by Eric S. Raymond after his death as "a true hacker and a gentleman".^[7] He is attributed^[8] as having coined the term "net-surfing" in a 1991 USENET post.^[9]

Personal life

On 31 December 1993, Kehoe and a friend, Sven Heinicke, were involved in a serious car accident that left Kehoe with brain injuries including aphasia. He subsequently made a full recovery. He was married on 5 October 1996. He lived in Dublin, Ireland with his wife and two children.

At the beginning of March 2011, Kehoe was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia.^[10] He underwent chemotherapy to fight the disease but succumbed to it on 19 July 2011.^[11]^[12]

References

1. ^¹²{{cite news|last=Hardy|first=Dan|title=Revealed: A Network's Secrets Brendan Kehoe's Internet Discoveries Are About To Be Published|url=http://articles.philly.com/1992-06-28/news/26030564_1_computer-internet-commodore|accessdate=22 July 2011|newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=28 June 1992}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Brendan Kehoe: Widener Student Authored One of the First Major Books on Using the Internet|url=http://widenermagazine.com/2011/07/25/brendan-kehoe-widener-student-authored-one-of-the-first-major-books-on-using-the-interenet/|work=Widener Magazine|publisher=Widener College|accessdate=29 October 2011}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,57455,00.asp|title=20th Anniversary of the PC Survey|date=August 2001|publisher=PC Magazine}}
4. ^Sergey Brin – My favorite books
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.zen.org/2011/07/25/the-speeches/#more-1618 |title=Speech by Diarmaid Mac Aonghusa at Brendan Kehoe's funeral|accessdate=19 August 2011}}
6. ^Educate Together: Contact list, including list of directors {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110408040818/http://www.educatetogether.ie/about-2/contact/ |date=8 April 2011 }}
7. ^zen.org Communal Weblog » Details
8. ^Hobbes' Internet Timeline 10.2
9. ^https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/comp.admin.policy/A-JUIeKlPUw/RyMspUG7dkwJ Google Groups archive
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.zen.org/category/leukemia/|title=Brendan's blog about his stay in hospital and his treatment}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.zen.org/2011/07/20/bigger-than-his-body/|title=zen.org Communal Weblog » Bigger Than His Body|date=July 2011}}
12. ^{{cite web|title=The death has occurred of Brendan KEHOE of Dun Laoghaire, Dublin|url=http://rip.ie/death_notices_detail.asp?NoticeID=139926|accessdate=20 July 2011}}

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