- John Warnock
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birth_date =1940
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field =Computer Science
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footnotes =John Warnock (b.
October 6 ,1940 ) is an Americancomputer scientist best known as the co-founder withCharles Geschke ofAdobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company. Although retired asCEO in2001 , he still co-chairs the board with Geschke.Warnock was born in
Salt Lake City, Utah . He has a B.S. inmathematics andphilosophy , an M.S. in mathematics, and a Ph.D. inelectrical engineering , all from theUniversity of Utah .Prior to co-founding Adobe, Warnock worked for Geschke at
Xerox 's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he had started in1978 . Unable to convince Xerox management of the approach to commercialize Warnock'sInterPress graphics language for controllingprinting , the two left Xerox to start Adobe in1982 . At their new company, they developed an equivalent technology,PostScript , from scratch, and brought it to market.Warnock invented what is now called the
Warnock algorithm forhidden surface determination incomputer graphics .One of Adobe's popular
typeface s, Warnock, is named after him.Adobe's PostScript technology made it easier to print text and images from a computer, revolutionizing media and publishing in the 1980s.
Recognition
John Warnock, along with co-founder Charles Geschke, received the American Electronics Association (AeA) Annual Medal of Achievement Award in Oct. 2006. They are the first software executives to receive this award.
In 1999 Warnock was inducted as a Fellow of the
Association for Computing Machinery .ee also
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Warnock algorithm External links
* [http://www.computerhistory.org/events/hall_of_fellows/warnock/ Biography at Computer History Museum]
* [http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/executivebios/johnwarnock.html Biography on Adobe Web site]
* [http://www.theblueboarinn.com Warnock's Utah Bed and Breakfast-The Blue Boar Inn]
* [http://www.designbyfire.com/?p=30 Andrei Herasimchuk: Open Letter to John Warnock]
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