Keith Packard
Programmer, Organization leader
1963 –
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Who is Keith Packard?
Keith Packard 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."
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- Born
- Apr 16, 1963
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor's degree, Reed College
Mathematics
( - 1986)
- Bachelor's degree, Reed College
- Employment
- Intel Corporation
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on July 23, 2013
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