Mansoor Sarwar is a professor and principal at Punjab University College of Information Technology (PUCIT), and a former tenured associate professor in the Multnomah School of Engineering at the University of Portland (UP), Oregon. He received his MS and PhD in Computer Engineering from the Iowa State University (ISU), Ames, Iowa, and has over 28 years of post-PhD experience in teaching and research. He has over 35 research publications in international journals and conferences. He was nominated for the Best Graduate Researcher Award at ISU for his PhD research, and Best Researcher and Best Teacher awards at UP. He has been learning, using, and teaching UNIX since 1986. His family is spread over three continents: he currently resides in Lahore with his wife and younger son. His daughter is pursuing her masters degree in Textile Design Innovation in UK, and his older son runs a software company in Los Angeles.
Robert M. Koretsky is a retired lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the Multnomah School of Engineering at the University of Portland, in Portland, Oregon. Principally educated at the Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn, New York, he has also worked as an Automotive Engineering Designer with the Freightliner Corp. in Portland. He currently resides in Portland, with his wife, two children, and two grandchildren.
Together, they are the authors of four textbooks on UNIX and Linux.
