John Warnock

John Warnock (* October 6, 1940 in Salt Lake City, Utah) was used together with Charles Geschke as the founder of Adobe Systems, Inc., a graphics and publishing software company known. Since his retirement as CEO in 2001, he is in Adobe with Geschke still in the Co - Chair.

Life

Warnock earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Philosophy and a Master of Science degree in mathematics, he is also a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering. He was at the University of Utah All tracks.

Prior to founding Adobe John Warnock worked since 1978 at Xerox PARC, as well Geschke. Since the two failed to convince Xerox of Inter Press as a printer language, they left Xerox 1982 In her new company -. Adobe - they developed printer language and marketed it under the name PostScript.

Warnock is the developer of the Warnock algorithm for occlusion computation in computer graphics.

One of Adobe's fonts, developed by Robert Slimbach Warnock, was named after him. Adobe's PostScript technology has the printer output of text and images easier.

Awards

John Warnock and Chuck Geschke were awarded in October 2006 with the Annual Medal of Achievement Award. They are the first founder of a software company, who received the AeA.