John Walker (programmer)
John Walker (* 1949 ) is an American programmer . He founded the CAD software company Autodesk and is a co-author of AutoCAD .
Act
Even before Autodesk, Walker founded the hardware integration company Marinchip , which made a name for itself, among other things, by porting numerous compilers to the Intel architecture.
In 1982 he founded Autodesk with twelve programmers , which he left in 1994 with a share package worth 45 million USD .
John Walker has lived in Switzerland since 1991 . He is involved in projects that are presented on the web under the term Fourmilab , such as the hardware random number generator HotBits or the astronomy programs Home Planet / Earth and Moon viewer . Book reviews of English literature as well as reports from his Swiss place of residence Lignières appear regularly on his blog Fourmilog .
In addition to his work as a programmer, John Walker wrote socially critical essays , of which The Digital Imprimatur on censorship on the Internet is probably the best known. He also published the book The Hacker's Diet , in which he describes obesity as an engineering problem and shows systematic solutions to this problem.
Web links
- fourmilab.ch - John Walker's homepage
Fonts:
- John Walker: the end of the internet? - Multi-part translation of the essay "The Digital Imprimatur" ( Memento from June 10, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Walker, John |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American founder of the software company Autodesk |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |