Steve Kirsch

Steve Todd Kirsch ( born 1956 ) is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist. He invented the optical mouse and it received a patent. The establishment of some companies with their subsequent IPO or acquisition by the management made ​​him a multiple millionaire.

Cherry grew up in Los Angeles. At the age of twelve years he captivated a programmable calculator. A dedicated teacher showed him an IBM System/360, and within a year he was at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA) to see where Vinton Cerf and his team is dealing with the Arpanet located just in its infancy. Soon cherry dealt with the programming of an e -mail program and parts of the operating system. At the suggestion of Vinton Cerf he wrote in 1974 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1980 and graduated in 1978 with a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science.

In 1982, he founded the company Mouse Systems, which marketed his invention of optical mouse. In 1986 he resigned and founded the company Frame Technology Corp.. , Which drove the desktop publishing program FrameMaker. The company was acquired by Adobe Systems. In 1994 he founded the Infoseek Corporation, which was acquired by Disney. In 1999 he founded the Propel Software Corporation, which deals with the acceleration of network access the Internet, later than its subsidiary the company abaca Inc. in San Jose. Abaca has developed a spam filter, which a very good accuracy has been certified.

A portion of its assets since 1999 he put in a charity fund, which now includes 75 million dollars. This fund supports, among other environmental efforts and many other tasks.

Steve Kirsch is married.