John Ousterhout
Template:Infobox scientist John Kenneth Ousterhout (Template:IPAc-en, born October 15, 1954) is an American computer scientist. He is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming.
Ousterhout was previously a professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley, where he created the Tcl scripting language and the Tk platform-independent widget toolkit, and proposed the idea of coscheduling.<ref name="Ousterhout Jones 2009 p. 30">Template:Cite book</ref> Ousterhout led the research group that designed the experimental Sprite operating system and the first log-structured file system.<ref name="RosenblumOusterhout1992">Template:Cite journal</ref> Ousterhout also led the team that developed the Magic VLSI computer-aided design (CAD) program.<ref name="OusterhoutHamachi1985">Template:Cite journal</ref>
Education and career
[edit]He received a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in physics from Yale University in 1975, and his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1980.<ref name="ousterhoutwebsite">Template:Cite web</ref>
Ousterhout received the Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1987 for his work on electronic design automation CAD systems for very-large-scale integrated circuits.<ref>Grace Murray Hopper Award citation Template:Webarchive, retrieved 2010-04-21.</ref> For the same work, he was inducted in 1994 as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.<ref>ACM Fellow citation, retrieved 2010-04-21.</ref> Ousterhout was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for improving our ability to program computers by raising the level of abstraction.
In 1994, Ousterhout left Berkeley to join Sun Microsystems Laboratories, which hired a team to join him in Tcl development. After several years at Sun, he left and co-founded Scriptics, Inc. (later renamed Ajuba Solutions) in January 1998 to provide professional Tcl development tools.<ref name="ousterhoutwebsite"/> Most of the Tcl team followed him from Sun. Ajuba was purchased by Interwoven in October 2000. He joined the faculty of Stanford University in 2008.<ref name="ousterhoutwebsite"/>
Selected works
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- A Philosophy of Software Design, (Yaknyam Press, 2018, Template:ISBN)
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[edit]- American computer programmers
- Stanford University School of Engineering faculty
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- 1994 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Carnegie Mellon University alumni
- Grace Murray Hopper Award laureates
- Yale University alumni
- Living people
- 1954 births
- Programming language designers
- Place of birth missing (living people)
- American computer scientists
- Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
- Sun Microsystems people