Education
He studied at the École Polytechnique.
He studied at the École Polytechnique.
His work influenced Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, and others in the development of TCP/Intellectual Property protocols used by the Internet. Having participated in the design of the Compatible Time Sharing System (CTSS), Pouzin wrote a program called RUNCOM around 1963/64. RUNCOM permitted the execution of contained commands within a folder, and can be considered the ancestor of the command-line interface and shell scripts.
Pouzin was, in fact, the one who coined the term shell for a command language in 1964 or "65.
Pouzin"s concepts were later implemented in Multics by Glenda Schroeder at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2013, he founded Savoir-Faire, an alternative root company, with Chantal Lebrument and Quentin Perrigueur.