Dealers of Lightning (82 page)
David R. Boggs
lives in northern California, where he designs and
markets a new generation
of
networking circuit boards.
John Seely Brown
is chief scientist of
Xerox
and director of
PARC.
Lynn A. Conway
is professor of electrical engineering and computer
science at the University of Michigan.
L. Peter Deutsch
lives in northern
California,
where he develops and
markets a version of GhostScript, a page description language
related to PostScript.
William Duvall,
who lives in Idaho, invented Surfwatch, a program to
prevent children from inadvertently encountering objectionable websites while surfing the Internet.
Jerome I. Elkind
is retired and living in northern California, where
he is helping develop software to help the disabled use computers.
John Ellenby
founded Grid Systems to develop and market laptop
computers, then sold it to Tandy Corporation, the owner of the
Radio Shack retail chain. He has since founded GeoVector,
which develops and markets marine navigation and communication devices.
Douglas Fairbairn
is a vice president and general manager at
Cadence Design Systems, a maker of
VLSI
design tools in San
Jose, California.
Edward R. Fiala
is a senior researcher at Adobe Systems in San Jose,
California.
Charles M. Geschke
is co-founder and co-chairman (with
John
Warnock),
and president of Adobe Systems, Inc.
Adele Goldberg
is a co-founder of Neometron, a Redwood City, California, company that develops learning and management tools
for the Internet and other projects. Earlier she co-founded
ParcPlace, a joint venture with Xerox to develop Smalltalk
applications.
Jacob E. Goldman
is retired and living in Connecticut, where he is a
private investor.
William F. Gunning
is largely retired, but still reports regularly to his
Xerox office in Palo Alto.
Harold H. Hall
retired to his family home in South Dakota.
Chris Jeffers
is president of Teklicon, a northern California firm that
provides experts on science and technology for parties
involved in lawsuits and patent and insurance cases.
Richard E. Jones
retired from Xerox in 1998.
He
lives in southern
California.
Alan C. Kay
is a fellow at Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale, California, where his research group includes
Ted Kaehler
and
Daniel H. Ingalls.
He worked briefly at Atari after leaving
PARC
and subsequently joined Apple Computer as an Apple
Fellow, leaving in 1996.
Rutler W. Lampson
is a fellow at Microsoft Research in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
David Liddle
is chairman and chief executive officer
of
Interval
Research Corporation, a high-technology think tank located
within walking distance of PARC and funded by
Microsoft
co-
founder Paul Allen.
Edward M. McCreight
is a
senior
researcher at Adobe Systems in
San Jose, California.
Carver A. Mead
is Gordon
and
Betty
Moore
Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of
Tech
nology.
Diana Merry-Shapiro
lives in
New York
City and works for
J. P.
Morgan & Co. as a consultant
on
Smalltalk-based programming systems.
Robert M. Metcalfe
co-founded 3Com Corporation in 1979 and
retired from the company in
1990,
when its annual revenues
approached one-half-billion dollars.
He
is vice president/technology at International
Data Group,
a publisher of computer
industry trade journals, and
a weekly
columnist on networking
and telecommunications issues for
IDG's
InfoWorld.
James G. Mitchell
is vice president for technology and architecture
for the Javasoft division of Sun Microsystems, the developer of
the Java programming language.
James H. Morris
is H.
A.
Simon
Professor
of Human-Computer
Interaction and chairman
of
the department of computer science at Carnegie-Mellon
University.
Timothy Mott
is a venture capital investor and lives in Idaho.
Severo Ornstein
is retired and living with his wife, the former
PARC
researcher
Laura Gould,
in northern California.
In
1981,
concerned about the threat of nuclear war, he co-founded
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
George E. Pake
is retired and living in northern California.
Max Palevsky
is a self-employed industrialist and private investor in
Southern California.
Ron Rider
is vice president
of
Xerox's Digital Imaging Technology
Center in Palo Alto.
John F. Shoch
is a venture capital investor at
Asset
Management Inc.
in northern California.
Richard Shoup,
who has been awarded an Emmy and an Oscar for
his work on digital paint systems, left
PARC
in 1979 to co-
found Aurora Systems, a developer and manufacturer of digital videographic and animation
system. In
1993 he joined
Interval Research Corporation.
Charles Simonyi
works at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, where he is developing a programming system known
as "intentional programming."
Alvy Ray Smith
was director of computer graphics research at Lucas-
film and a co-founder of its spinoff,
Pixar. He
joined Microsoft
as its first graphics fellow in 1994.
William J. Spencer,
who retired
in
1990 as Xerox's chief technical
officer, is chairman of Sematech, a joint research initiative
formed by ten U.S. semiconductor companies.
Robert Spinrad
retired as Xerox vice president for technology strategy in 1998.
He
lives in northern California.
Robert F. Sproull
is a vice president of Sun Microsystems, Inc., and a
fellow of Sun Laboratories, its research center.
M. Frank Squires
joined Sematech in 1991 as chief administrative
officer.
He
died in
May
1998, shortly after being named managing director of the consortium's international branch.
Gary K. Starkweather,
who joined Apple Computer after leaving
PARC, is now a fellow at Microsoft Research in Redmond,
Washington.
Paul Strassmann
lives in Connecticut, where he is a private consultant on corporate information management.
William R. (Bert) Sutherland
is vice president of Sun Microsystems,
Inc., and director of Sun Laboratories, its research center,
which he joined upon its founding in 1990.
Robert W. Taylor
retired as director
of
Digital Equipment Corp. s
Systems Research Laboratory
in
1997. He lives in northern
California.
Warren Teitelman
is Vice President
of
Research and Development
at BayStone Software, a developer
of
integrated sales and marketing software for corporate
clients.
Lawrence G. Tesler,
who stayed at
Apple
Computer until 1998, rising to the position of chief scientist,
is
now president of Stage-
cast Inc., a developer of interactive simulation software in
Palo
Alto, California.
Charles P. Thacker
worked for
DEC until
1997, when he resigned
from the Systems Research Center
to
join Microsoft Research
in Cambridge, U.K.
David Thornburg,
director of the Thornburg Center for Professional
Development, is a lecturer and consultant on the uses
of
technology in education.
John C. Urbach
is retired and living in
northern
California.
John Warnock
is co-founder and co-chairman (with
Chuck Geschke)
and chief executive officer of Adobe
Systems.