Geoff Collyer

Geoff Collyer (born 1958) is a Canadian computer scientist.

[2][3] He contributed the code that allowed to convert the Bourne Shell from using the non-portable sbrk to a portable malloc based implementation.

[1] Asteroid 129101 Geoffcollyer, discovered by astronomers at the Jarnac Observatory in Arizona in 2004, was named in his honor.

[1] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 August 2006 (M.P.C.

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