Keith Packard

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Keith Packard (born April 16, 1963 ) is a software developer who is best known for his work on the X Window System .

Life

Packard graduated from Mathematics in 1986. He worked at Tektronix , where he designed X terminals and Unix workstations from 1983 to 1988.

In 1988 he moved to Cambridge (Massachusetts) and worked there at MIT in the X Consortium until 1992. He developed the X Window reference implementation, worked out standardizations and was responsible for the version publications at that time.

From 1999 he was employed by SuSE and worked from Portland on the XFree86 implementation of the X Window System .

From 2001 he worked in the research laboratories for Compaq (now Hewlett-Packard ) in Cambridge. In 2003 he was expelled from the core team of the XFree86 project.

Keith Packard has been heavily involved in the development of the X.Org server since the beginning of 2004 , which has meanwhile overtaken the XFree86 server in terms of distribution.

From October 2005 to January 2015 he worked at Intel .

He then worked for HP and later HPE. Since March 2017 he has also been working as a consultant for Valve in his spare time . Keith is also involved in the development of microcomputers and founded Altus Metrum together with Bdale Garbee in 2009. There the two develop products for the evaluation of telemetry data, which they need for their hobby - flying rockets.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Keith Packard's LinkedIn profile. Retrieved March 14, 2017 (English).
  2. ^ Valve Hires X11 Veteran Keith Packard To Work On The Linux Display Stack - Phoronix. Retrieved March 14, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ https://keithp.com/blogs/Valve/
  4. ^ Altus Metrum website. Retrieved August 11, 2017 .
  5. ↑ OpenAlt, The first product of Altus meter. Retrieved August 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Packard, Keith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American software developer
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1963