Dr.
John E. Warnock
(
–
)
1940
2023
Adobe Systems, Inc.
;
Los Altos, CA
Computer scientist; Company executive
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Computer Sciences
Elected
2008
Co-Chairman and Founder. As CEO, guided Adobe through the conception, development, and marketing of widely used graphic communications products including: PostScript, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat. Before founding Adobe in 1982, worked at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center specializing in device independent graphics and printing protocols. At the University of Utah Warnock invented what is now called _e Warnock algorithm for hidden surface determination in computer graphics.
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