John Ousterhout

John Ousterhout (pronounced ) was a professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. While there, he invented the scripting programming language Tcl and the platform-independent GUI toolkit Tk. Ousterhout also led the research group that designed the experimental Sprite operating system and its Log-structured file system, LFS. Ousterhout is also the original author of the VLSI CAD program Magic.

He received his Bachelor's degree in Physics from Yale University, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Ousterhout received the Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1987.

In 1997, Ousterhout left Berkeley to join Sun Microsystems Laboratories, which hired a team to join him in Tcl development. After several years at Sun, he left and co-founded Scriptics, Inc. (later renamed Ajuba Solutions) in January 1998 to provide professional Tcl development tools and most of the Tcl team followed him from Sun. Ajuba was purchased by Interwoven in October 2000.

Ousterhout then founded, and is now the chairman of Electric Cloud, Inc.

See also

* Ousterhout's dichotomy

External links

* John's recounting of Tcl's early days
* Ousterhout's personal home page
* [ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/doc/tut.tar.Z Tutorial material authored by Ousterhout]