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Encyclopedia > John Ousterhout

John Ousterhout is the original force behind the scripting programming language Tcl and the platform-independent GUI toolkit Tk, which he developed when he was professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Ousterhout is also the original author of the VLSI CAD program Magic. Ousterhout designed the 4.4 BSD Log File System (LFS) but left the work unfinished.


He received his Bachelor's degree in Physics from Yale University, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University.


See also: Ousterhout's dichotomy


External links

  • John's recounting of Tcl's early days (http://www.tcl.tk/advocacy/tclHistory.html)
  • Ousterhout's personal home page (http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/)
  • Tutorial material authored by Ousterhout (ftp://ftp.scriptics.com/pub/tcl/doc/tut.tar.Z)

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John K. Ousterhout (455 words)
John K. Ousterhout is founder and Chairman of Electric Cloud, Inc. He is also creator of the Tcl scripting language and is well known for his work in distributed operating systems, high-performance file systems, and user interfaces.
Prior to founding Electric Cloud, Ousterhout was founder and CEO of Scriptics Corporation, Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and Professor of Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley.
Ousterhout is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the ACM.
John Ousterhout at AllExperts (235 words)
John Ousterhout (pronounced) was a professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley.
Ousterhout also led the research group that designed the experimental Sprite operating system and its Log-structured file system, LFS.
Ousterhout is also the original author of the VLSI CAD program Magic.
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