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Keith Packard
Born
(1963-04-16) April 16, 1963 (age 61)
Education
BA in mathematics
Occupation
Programmer
Employer
Amazon
Known for
Programming
Board member of
X.Org Foundation
Website
keithp.com
Keith Packard (born April 16, 1963) is a software developer, best known for his work on the X Window System.
Packard is responsible for many X extensions and technical papers on X. He has been heavily involved in the development of X since the late 1980s as a member of the MIT X Consortium, XFree86 and the X.Org Foundation.
In 2011, O'Reilly awarded an open source award to Packard, as "the person behind most of the improvements made on the open source desktop in the last ten years at least."[1] He is portrayed as one of the Faces of Open Source.[2]
^"O'Reilly Open Source Awards: O'Reilly Open Source Convention: OSCON, July 25 - 29, 2011 in Portland, OR". www.oscon.com. Archived from the original on 2013-01-18. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
^"Faces of Open Source: Keith Packard". Retrieved 2018-08-29.
KeithPackard (born April 16, 1963) is a software developer, best known for his work on the X Window System. Packard is responsible for many X extensions...
project of his own making. Packard denied this had been his aim, but some emails were provided as evidence otherwise. KeithPackard was subsequently expelled...
January 1988 and KeithPackard in March 1988 as senior developers, with Jim focusing on Xlib, fonts, window managers, and utilities; and Keith re-implementing...
Infrastructure". Retrieved 18 May 2016. Packard, Keith (21 July 2008). "X output status july 2008". Retrieved 26 May 2016. Packard, Keith (24 April 2009). "Sharpening...
FreeType interface library, is a free computer program library written by KeithPackard. It uses the MIT/X license that The Open Group applied after the post...
(KeithPackard) X Window System Network Performance (KeithPackard and Jim Gettys, 2003) Design and Implementation of the X Rendering Extension (Keith...
other programs. Fontconfig was originally written and maintained by KeithPackard, and is currently maintained by Behdad Esfahbod. Fontconfig is typically...
allow an efficient display of transparent images. It was written by KeithPackard in 2000 and was first released with XFree86 version 4.0.1. Its design...
Display Manager) originated in X11R3. This first version, written by KeithPackard of the MIT X Consortium, had several limitations, the most notable of...
originally written by Tom LaStrange. Later contributors include Jim Fulton, KeithPackard and Dave Sternlicht, all of whom were employees of the X Consortium...
"[t]he seminal work on an algebra for image compositing", according to KeithPackard. and "Porter-Duff compositing" is now a key technique in computer graphics...
system operating system, derived from BSD libc picolibc, developed by KeithPackard, targeting small embedded systems with limited RAM, based on code from...
decision was contested in the XFree86 community, notably by Jim Gettys and KeithPackard, and the dissenters subsequently forked the project into the X.Org Server...
ZX Spectrum games including Dizzy John Ousterhout – created Tcl/Tk KeithPackard – X Window System Larry Page – cofounded Google, Inc. Alexey Pajitnov...
makes useful additions to the X11 protocol. It was started in 2003 by KeithPackard. It first appeared in the KDrive X server and later in X.Org Server...
Labs Merrill A. McPeak: Director; former US Air Force chief of staff KeithPackard: engineer; X Window System developer Randal L. Schwartz: Perl and computer...
dissertation "Experiments with Superfluid Oscillators" under advisor Richard Packard, where he demonstrated an ultra-sensitive gyroscope based on the quantum...
(NaCl) includes Newlib as the default C library over glibc. In 2019, KeithPackard released Picolibc, a library offering standard C library APIs that targets...
Retrieved 23 November 2015. Packard, Keith (16 September 2007). "kernel-mode-drivers". Retrieved 30 April 2016. Packard, Keith (24 April 2000). "Sharpening...
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