Quentin Stafford-Fraser

Who is Quentin Stafford-Fraser?

James Quentin Stafford-Fraser is a computer scientist and entrepreneur based in Cambridge, England. He was one of the team that created the first webcam: the Trojan room coffee pot: Quentin pointed a camera at the coffee pot and wrote the XCoffee client program which allowed the image of the pot to be displayed on a workstation screen. When web browsers gained the ability to display images, the system was modifed to make the coffee pot images available over HTTP and thus became the first webcam.

Quentin wrote the original VNC client and server for the Windows operating system, while at the Olivetti Research Laboratory.

Quentin has founded or co-founded various companies and other organisations including:

⁕Newnham Research

⁕Exbiblio

⁕The Ndiyo project

⁕Cambridge Visual Networks

⁕Telemarq Ltd

He is a regular public speaker and his work has attracted significant media coverage.