[TUHS] John Warnock [1940--2023]

[This posting was sent earlier today to some local lists, but may also be of interest to TUHS members.] The UofUtah lost one its significant alumni, John Warnock, on Saturday. John received Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Department of Mathematics, and his doctoral degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering. After jobs at Evans & Sutherland in Salt Lake City, and Xerox PARC labs in Palo Alto, CA, he later went on to co-found Adobe Systems with Chuck Geschke (1939--2021), and the PostScript, PDF, and font technologies, and many others, that came from their company changed the publishing model of the entire world. See https://www.cs.utah.edu/adobe-co-founder-and-kahlert-school-of-computing-al… https://www.ksl.com/article/50713319/adobe-co-founder-utah-native-john-warn… https://www.adobe.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Geschke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warnock John's doctoral thesis is available at: https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/docview/302478116/2F149E6F459946B7PQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: beebe(a)math.utah.edu - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe(a)acm.org beebe(a)computer.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------