Books by Daniel P. Bovet

Daniel P. Bovet earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science at UCLA in 1968 and is now a full professor at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata," Italy. He had to wait more than 25 years before being able to teach an OS course in a proper manner, because of the unavailability of source code for modern, well-designed systems. Now, thanks to cheap PCs and to Linux, Marco and Dan are able to cover all the facets of an operating system from booting to tuning and to hand out tough, satisfying homework to their students. (These young guys working at home on their PC are really spoiled; they never had to fight with punched cards.) In fact, he was so fascinated by the accomplishments of Linus and his followers that he spent the last few years trying to unravel some of Linux's mysteries. It seemed natural after all that work to write a book about what he found out. Marco Cesati got a degree in Mathematics in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Univ. of Rome "La Sapienza") in 1995. He is now a research assistant in the Computer Science Department of the School of Engineering (Univ. of Rome "Tor Vergata"). In the past he was system administrator and Unix programmer for the university (as a Ph.D. student) and for several institutions (as a consultant). During the last three years he has been continuously involved in teaching his students how to change the Linux kernel in strange and funny ways.