Austin Grossman, October 29, 2007
G Austin Gresham (1925 – 24 July 2009[1]) was a British pathologist and writer of A Colour Atlas of Forensic Pathology, a seminal book on the subject.
Austin Gresham emeritus professor of morbid anatomy and histopathology at Jesus College, Cambridge.
His 1975 handbook, A Colour Atlas of Forensic Pathology, was compiled for trainee pathologists and, according to the author, "designed to fit into a jacket pocket so that it could be taken into the field".
It has however become "the Britart bible", according to Mat Collishaw, a British artist who came to prominence at the Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1997. He and other Young British Artists of the 1990s, such as Damien Hirst, used many of its explicit images of dead bodies in their artwork.[2]
He is the author of the novel Soon I Will Be Invincible, which was published by Pantheon Books in 2007.[2]
Grossman started his career in the game industry replying to a classified ad in the The Boston Globe in May 1992 that led him to Looking Glass Studios. Since then, Grossman has worked with the following companies: Dreamworks Interactive, Ion Storm of Austin, and Crystal Dynamics.
Grossman attended Harvard University and is currently a graduate student in English literature at the University of California, Berkeley.[2] He is the twin brother of writer Lev Grossman and brother of sculptor Bathsheba Grossman, and the son of the poet Allen Grossman and the novelist Judith Grossman.
The Austin Group or the Austin Common Standards Revision Group is a joint technical working group formed to develop and maintain a common revision of POSIX.1 and parts of the Single UNIX Specification.
The approach to specification development is "write once, adopt everywhere", with the deliverables being a set of specifications that carry both the IEEE POSIX designation and The Open Group's Technical Standard designation, and at the next paper publishing the ISO/IEC designation. The new set of specifications is simultaneously ISO/IEC/IEEE 9945, and forms the core of the Single UNIX Specification Version 3. The IEEE formerly designated this standard as 1003.1.
This unique development combines both the industry-led efforts and the formal standardization activities into a single initiative, and includes a wide spectrum of participants.
The group currently has over 500 participants, and is chaired by Andrew Josey from The Open Group. The Open Group manages the day to day running of the group, providing the chair, the editor and email and web facilities. There are no fees for participation or membership.
The decision making process is divided between the three entities that publish the resulting standard: ISO/IEC (Joint Technical Committee 1, subcommittee 22), IEEE (Portable Applications Standards Committee) and The Open Group, which each of these appointing an Organisational Representative (OR). The three ORs judge if there is consensus, and are responsible for initiating ballots within their respective organisations as required.
| Organisation | Representative |
|---|---|
| ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 | Nick Stoughton |
| IEEE PASC | Don Cragun |
| The Open Group | Mark Brown |
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