Keith Packard is a software developer, best known for his work on the X Window System. A software developer is a programmer who is concerned with one or more facets of the software development process, a somewhat broader scope of computer programming. ... KDE 3. ...

Keith Packard at OLS 2004, keeping his network up

Packard is responsible for many X extensions and technical papers on X. He has been heavily involved in the development of X since the late 1980s, at the MIT X Consortium, XFree86 and presently with the X.org Foundation. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (576x768, 62 KB)Keith Packard at OLS2004, keeping his network up. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (576x768, 62 KB)Keith Packard at OLS2004, keeping his network up. ... XFree86 is an implementation of the X Window System. ... The X.Org logo The X.Org Foundation is the consortium holding the stewardship for the development of the X Window System. ...

After being expelled from XFree86 after disagreements (which led to the formation of the successful X.Org Server fork), he is now project lead on the experimental freedesktop.org Xserver and on the official sample implementation of X. The XOrg Foundation Open Source Public Implementation of X11 (the XOrg Server) is the official reference implementation of the X Window System. ... In software, a project fork or branch happens when a developer (or a group of them) takes code from a project and starts to develop independently of the rest. ... freedesktop. ... Xserver is an implementation of an X Window System server being developed by Keith Packard Unlike the X.Org Server, Xserver is not based on XFree86 code. ... In computing, a reference implementation (or, infrequently, sample implementation) is a software example of a standard for use in helping others implement their own versions of the standard. ...

Career

Packard gained a BA in mathematics from Reed College, Oregon in 1986. He worked at Tektronix in Wilsonville, Oregon designing X terminals and Unix workstations from 1983 until 1988. Mathematics is often defined as the study of topics such as quantity, structure, space, and change. ... Reed College is a liberal arts college with 1341 students as of the fall of 2004 (45% men and 55% women), located in Portland, Oregon in the Eastmoreland neighborhood. ... Official language(s) None Capital Salem Largest city Portland Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 9th 255,026 km² 420 km 580 km 2. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tektronix is a United States corporation that is currently a major presence in the test, measurement, and measuring industry. ... Wilsonville is a city located in Clackamas County, Oregon. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Guide to UNIX Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ... SGI O2 Workstation A computer workstation, often colloquially referred to as workstation, is a high-end general-purpose microcomputer designed to be used by one person at a time and which offers higher performance than normally found in a personal computer, especially with respect to graphics, processing power and the... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He then moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to work at the MIT X Consortium from 1988 to 1992, developing the X Window System reference implementation and standards as the senior member of a small team. He was responsible for X releases at this time. Cambridge City Hall Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research and educational institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is a world leader in science and technology, as well as in many other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Standardization, in the context related to technologies and industries, is the process of establishing a technical standard among competing entities in a market, where this will bring benefits without hurting competition. ...

In 1992 he moved to Mountain View, California to work for Network Computing Devices on X terminals and computer graphics. Nickname: Motto: Official website: http://www. ...

From 1999 he worked for SuSE from his home in Portland, Oregon on the XFree86 implementation of X. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... SUSE (properly pronounced , but often pronounced /suzi/) is a major retail Linux distribution, produced in Germany. ... Nickname: City of Roses, Stumptown, Bridgetown Motto: Official website: http://www. ... XFree86 is an implementation of the X Window System. ...

He worked at the Cambridge Research Labs of Compaq (and now Hewlett-Packard) from 2001 until 2005 when the lab closed down. Compaq was a personal computer company founded in 1982 by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto. ... The Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), commonly known as HP, is a very large, global company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He now works at Intel. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC, HKEx: 4335), founded in 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation, is a U.S.-based multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ...

See also

• Cairo
• X Window System extensions: XRender, XFixes
• fontconfig
• Nickle programming language

Cairo is a free software graphics library with multiple backends, that provides a vector-based device-independent API for software developers. ... KDE 3. ... Xrender (aka X Rendering Extension) introduces digital image composition as the foundation of a new rendering model within the X Window System. ... In computing, XFixes is an X Window System extension which makes useful additions to the X11 protocol. ... fontconfig is a library designed to provide system-wide font configuration, customization and application access. ... Nickle is a numeric oriented programming language by Keith Packard and Bart Massey. ...

References

• Resume for Keith Packard (PDF)

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External link

• Personal site