Bob Scheifler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Bob Scheifler

computer scientist

Date of Birth: 24-Jun-1954

Place of Birth: Kirkwood, Missouri, United States

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, mathematician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Robert William Scheifler (born June 24, 1954, Kirkwood, Missouri) is an American computer scientist.
He is most notable for leading the development of the X Window System from the project's inception in 1984 until the closure of the MIT X Consortium in 1996.
He later became one of the architects of the Jini architecture at Sun Microsystems.Bob has stated that his goal in developing the X Window System was to raise the floor in windowing systems for the entire market, and despite its early adoption primarily by commercial players with proprietary extensions, X ended up as a standard, open system.
X is an important part of Linux to this day.
Scheifler holds a B.S.
in Mathematics and an M.S.
in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.