Citizenship American Books The Jini Specification Role Computer scientist | Name Bob Scheifler Fields Computer science Known for X Window System, Jini | |
Born June 24, 1954 (age 69)
Kirkwood, Missouri ( 1954-06-24 ) Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology Similar People Ken Arnold, Barbara Liskov, Bryan O'Sullivan, Maurice Herlihy | ||
Robert William Scheifler (born June 24, 1954, Kirkwood, Missouri) is an American computer scientist. He is most notable for leading the development of the X Window System from the project's inception in 1984 until the closure of the MIT X Consortium in 1996. He later became one of the architects of the Jini architecture at Sun Microsystems.
Bob has stated that his goal in developing the X Window System was to raise the floor in windowing systems for the entire market, and despite its early adoption primarily by commercial players with proprietary extensions, X ended up as a standard, open system. X is an important part of Linux to this day.
Scheifler holds a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.