Vaughan Pratt is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University. A professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Computer science (academically, CS, CSC or compsci) encompasses a variety of topics that relates to computation, like abstract analysis of algorithms, formal grammars, and subjects such as programming languages, program design, software and computer hardware. ... For other meanings of Stanford, see Stanford (disambiguation). ...
He directed the Sun workstation project at Stanford from 1980 to 1982 and went on to help found Sun Microsystems. He also designed the Sun logo, which features four interleaved copies of the word "sun"; it is an ambigram. Sun Microsystems Logo Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUNW) is a Silicon Valley-based computer, semiconductor and software manufacturer. ... Sun Microsystems Logo Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUNW) is a Silicon Valley-based computer, semiconductor and software manufacturer. ... An ambigram, also known as an inversion, is a graphical figure that spells out a word not only in its form as presented, but also in another direction or orientation. ...
He is currently on leave from Stanford and is CEO of TIQIT Computers, Inc. (http://www.tiqit.com/).
VaughanPratt founded Tiqit Computers in March 2000 with the goal of extending computing environment homogeneity down to handheld scale computing.
He is currently Professor Emeritus of Computer Science atStanford University recalled to active duty, where he spends a day a week advising Ph.D. and postdoctoral students working on speech recognition and understanding, wireless propagation and communication, and computational logic, and teaching a course a year.