Editing John Ousterhout

{{short description|American computer scientist}}

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'''John Kenneth Ousterhout''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|oʊ|s|t|ər|h|aʊ|t}}, 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 (framework)|Tk]] platform-independent [[widget toolkit]], and proposed the idea of [[coscheduling]].<ref name="Ousterhout Jones 2009 p. 30">{{cite book | last1=Ousterhout | first1=J.K. | last2=Jones | first2=K. | title=Tcl and the Tk Toolkit | publisher=Pearson Education | series=Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series | year=2009 | isbn=978-0-321-67086-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BWf6mdwHjDMC&pg=PT30 | access-date=2017-10-05 | page=30}}</ref> Ousterhout led the research group that designed the experimental [[Sprite operating system]] and the first [[log-structured file system]].<ref name="RosenblumOusterhout1992">{{cite journal|last1=Rosenblum|first1=Mendel|last2=Ousterhout|first2=John K.|title=The design and implementation of a log-structured file system|journal=ACM Transactions on Computer Systems|volume=10|issue=1|year=1992|pages=26–52|issn=0734-2071|doi=10.1145/146941.146943|s2cid=28452863|url=https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262/LFS.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262/LFS.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live}}</ref>
Ousterhout also led the team that developed the [[Magic (software)|Magic]] [[VLSI]] [[computer-aided design]] (CAD) program.<ref name="OusterhoutHamachi1985">{{cite journal|last1=Ousterhout|first1=John|last2=Hamachi|first2=Gordon|last3=Mayo|first3=Robert|last4=Scott|first4=Walter|last5=Taylor|first5=George|title=The Magic VLSI Layout System|journal=IEEE Design & Test of Computers|volume=2|issue=1|year=1985|pages=19–30|issn=0740-7475|doi=10.1109/MDT.1985.294681}}</ref>

== Education and career ==
He received a [[Bachelor of Science]] (B.S.) in physics from [[Yale University]] in 1975, and his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in computer science from [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in 1980.<ref name="ousterhoutwebsite">{{cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/home.php |title=John Ousterhout }}</ref>

Ousterhout received the [[Grace Murray Hopper Award]] in 1987 for his work on [[electronic design automation]] CAD systems for [[very-large-scale integration|very-large-scale integrated circuits]].<ref>[http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1957745&srt=all&aw=145&ao=GMHOPPER&yr=1987 Grace Murray Hopper Award citation] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402211950/http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1957745&srt=all&aw=145&ao=GMHOPPER&yr=1987 |date=2012-04-02 }}, retrieved 2010-04-21.</ref>  For the same work, he was inducted in 1994 as a [[Fellow]] of the [[Association for Computing Machinery]].<ref>[[List of Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery|ACM Fellow]] [http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=1957745&srt=all 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|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==
*{{cite journal |last1=Michael Stonebraker |last2=[[Randy Katz]], [[David Patterson (computer scientist)|David Patterson]], John Ousterhout |date=1988 |title=THE DESIGN OF XPRS |url=https://dsf.berkeley.edu/papers/ERL-M88-19.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://dsf.berkeley.edu/papers/ERL-M88-19.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |journal=[[VLDB conference|VLDB]] |pages=318–330 |access-date=25 March 2015|author1-link=Michael Stonebraker }}
* ''A Philosophy of Software Design,'' (Yaknyam Press, 2018, {{ISBN|1732102201}})

==See also==
* [[Ousterhout's dichotomy]]
* [[Raft (computer science)]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.tcl.tk/advocacy/tclHistory.html John's recounting of Tcl's early days]
* [http://www.stanford.edu/~ouster/ Ousterhout's web page at Stanford University]
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