John Warnock

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John Warnock was an American computer scientist and co-founder of Adobe Systems, best known for pioneering the PostScript language and the PDF file format.

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John Warnock canonical 8
John E. Warnock 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf businessperson
company founder
computer scientist
human
awardReceived Computerworld Smithsonian Award
Marconi Prize
National Medal of Technology and Innovation
coFounded Adobe Inc.
surface form: Adobe Systems
coFounderOf Adobe Inc.
surface form: Adobe Systems
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
developed Portable Document Format
surface form: PDF

Portable Document Format
PostScript
educatedAt University of Colorado Boulder
University of Utah
employer Adobe Inc.
surface form: Adobe Systems
familyName Warnock
fieldOfStudy computer science
mathematics
fieldOfWork computer graphics
computer science
desktop publishing
digital document formats
digital typography
page description languages
givenName John
hasEmployer Xerox PARC
influenced desktop publishing industry
digital printing technology
electronic document workflows
knownFor co-founding Adobe Systems
pioneering the PDF file format
pioneering the PostScript page description language
language English
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Engineering
notableIdea device-independent page description
platform-independent document format
notableWork Portable Document Format
surface form: PDF

Portable Document Format
PostScript
occupation business executive
computer scientist
entrepreneur
software engineer
positionHeld Chairman of Adobe Systems
Chief Executive Officer of Adobe Systems
sexOrGender male
workedOn InterPress page description language at Xerox PARC

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Adobe Inc. foundedBy John Warnock
PostScript designer John Warnock
Charles Geschke coFounder John Warnock
subject surface form: Adobe Systems
Warnock hasNotableBearer John Warnock
Ivan Sutherland doctoralStudent John Warnock
Steven A. Coons Award hasRecipient John Warnock
Warnock algorithm developer John Warnock
this entity surface form: John E. Warnock
Warnock algorithm namedAfter John Warnock
this entity surface form: John E. Warnock
David C. Evans notableStudent John Warnock