John Warnock
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American computer scientist, inventor and technology businessman (1940–2023)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 15
Top works
- Things That Go Bump
- JPEG of Dorian Gray
- One Fish, Two Fish
- Beauty
- Steele Stolen
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 2
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,297x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,514x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,878x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,530x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,118x
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Key facts
- Born
- John Edward Warnock , ( 1940-10-06 ) October 6, 1940, Salt Lake City , Utah, U.S.
- Died
- August 19, 2023 (2023-08-19) (aged 82), Los Altos, California , U.S.
- Alma mater
- University of Utah ( BS , MS , PhD )
- Known for
- Adobe Systems PostScript Portable Document Format (PDF)
- Fields
- Computer science
- Institutions
- University of Utah
- Doctoral advisor
- David C. Evans Ivan Sutherland
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Encyclopedic overview
John Edward Warnock (October 6, 1940 – August 19, 2023) was an American computer scientist, inventor, technology businessman, and philanthropist best known for co-founding Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company, with Charles Geschke in 1982. Warnock was President of Adobe for his first two years and chairman and CEO for his remaining sixteen years at the company. Although he retired as CEO in 2001, he continued to co-chair the Adobe Board of Directors with Geschke until 2017. Warnock pioneered the development of graphics, publishing, web and electronic document technologies that have revolutionized the field of publishing and visual communications.
Early life and education
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