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Richard Thomas Russell is the creator of the BBC BASIC for Windows programming language and the author of the Z80 and MS-DOS versions of BBC BASIC.〔Barry Collins, (BBC Basic: the people's language ),''PC Pro'', September 2006, pp140-141, ISSN 1355-4603〕〔Douglas J Mounter,''The BBC BASIC (Z80) Reference Manual for the Z88'', February 1989, ISBN 1-871895-00-6〕〔Doug Mounter and Richard Russell,''BBC BASIC (Z80) Reference Manual for the Tatung Einstein'', 1984, ISBN 1-85086-015-7〕 He was educated at Gravesend Grammar School and Hertford College, Oxford graduating with a degree in physics in 1973.〔 〕 The same year he began work at the BBC as a design engineer. During his career with the BBC he was involved with several high-profile projects including the BBC Microcomputer 〔John Coll, BBC Micro User Guide, British Broadcasting Corporation 1982, page 2, ISBN 0-563-16558-8〕〔Carol Atack, , ''Acorn User'', October 1988, ISSN 0263-7456〕 and the BBC Domesday Project.〔Andy Finney, (The BBC Domesday Project ), 2007 (bottom of page)〕 He retired from the BBC in 2006. His "2D DVE for Virtual Studios" won Video R&D Achievement of the Year at the International Broadcasting Awards 1996, and his hardware implementation of the BBC's patented Transform PAL Decoder〔Jim Easterbrook, (The BBC transform PAL decoder ), February 2008〕 has been acclaimed as probably the best PAL decoder in the world.〔James Insell, (From Videotape-based to File-based archives ), DCC/LUCAS Workshop, December 2006, Frame 10〕 In 2008 he developed a technique for recovering the colour from the black-and-white telerecordings of TV programmes, making it possible to restore full colour versions of some programmes for which no conventional colour recordings exist.〔Mark Nelson, Colour conundrums, ''(Everyday Practical Electronics )'', September 2008, page 16, ISSN 0262-3617〕〔Charles Norton, (Unscrambling an army of colours ), The Guardian, 11 December 2008, page 3, ISSN 0261-3077〕 He is featured in the documentary ''"The Story of Are You Being Served?"'' talking about his work on the colour restoration process.〔BBC Two, (The Story of Are You Being Served? ), 1 January 2010〕〔Cast list for (The Story of Are You Being Served? ), The Internet Movie Database, 1 January 2010〕 In addition to creating BBC BASIC for Windows, Russell also runs a Yahoo! support group for the language to which he regularly contributes tips, advice and comments on other users' code.〔bb4w: BBC BASIC for Windows, (BB4W Yahoo! Group ), Yahoo! Groups〕 He is also active in several Usenet newsgroups. He is married and lives in Norfolk in the United Kingdom. ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard T. Russell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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