John Ousterhout

John Kenneth Ousterhout (* October 15, 1954 in Solano County, California) is an American computer scientist. He is co-founder and CEO ( Chairman of the Board ), Electric Cloud, Inc. Larger fame he gained as the inventor of the programming language Tcl. He also enjoys an excellent reputation as an expert on graphical user interfaces and distributed operating systems.

Ousterhout studied from 1971 at Yale University, where he received the bachelor's degree in physics in 1975. In 1980 he received the Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

From 1980 to 1994 he was a professor in the department of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. In this period the development of the network operating system, Sprite, the first log - based file system, VLSI layout program Magic, the programming language Tcl and the first imaginary exclusively for Tcl GUI Biblitothek fall Tk 1994, he became Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems as Sun had the intention to build Tcl as a second " web language " in addition to Java. After this hope was not fulfilled for Ousterhout, he left Sun in 1998. The development of Tcl and Tk took over the Scriptics he founded in the same year Inc. Shortly after renaming his company in Ajuba Solutions in 2000, this was taken over by Interwoven. In 2002, he started with John Graham - Cumming, the company Electric Cloud, Inc.

Grace Murray Hopper Award 1987, he was awarded. He also received awards such as the ACM Software System Award, the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award or the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award. Since 1994 he is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Since 2008, Ousterhout has been a professor at the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University.