William Yeager
William Yeager (born June 16, 1940 in San Francisco ), often called Bill Yeager , is an American engineer.
Yeager worked for four years at NASA's AMES research laboratory on the Pioneer program. He then went to Stanford University for almost 20 years . There he wrote a serial FTP program in 1979 , which was later renamed Kermit after a revision at Columbia University .
Around 1980, together with Sandra Lerner and Len Bosack , the founders of Cisco , he developed multi- protocol routers that were licensed by Cisco in 1986.
It was there that he also devised the basics for IMAP and wrote the first IMAP server for UNIX .
He has been with Sun Microsystems since 1994 , where he worked on various programs.
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SURNAME | Yeager, William |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Yeager, Bill |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American engineer |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1940 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco , California , United States |