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	Charles Geschke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 11, 1939, Geschke attended Saint Ignatius High School and went on to earn an AB in classics and an MS in mathematics from Xavier University, as well as a PhD in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University.
		On the morning of May 26, 1992, Geschke was kidnapped at gunpoint from the Adobe parking lot.
		Geschke retired as president of Adobe in 2000, shortly before his partner Warnock left as CEO.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Geschke (313 words)

	Charles Geschke Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Charles M. "Chuck" Geschke (born September 11, 1939) is best known as the co-founder with John Warnock of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company, in 1982.
		Geschke had stated there in the early 1970s.
		In 1992, Geschke was kidnapped from the Adobe parking lot, and held for ransom for three days before escaping.
	kvariety.sferahost.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/charles_geschke.html (205 words)

	Adobe.com: About Adobe: Executive profiles
		A respected and inspiring leader in the software industry for more than 25 years, Geschke retired from his position as president of Adobe in 2000 and continues to share the chairmanship of the board with Warnock.
		Geschke actively participates on several boards of high technology companies, educational institutions, and arts organizations.
		Geschke holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University and a M.S. in mathematics and an A.B. in classics, both from Xavier University.
	www.adobe.com /aboutadobe/pressroom/executivebios/charlesgeschke.html (289 words)

	A dramatic kidnapping revisited -- Los Altos Town Crier
		Chuck Geschke woke several times the night before his only daughter Kathy's June wedding day, anxiously pondering the toast he would give at her reception.
		For two decades, Chuck and Nan Geschke raised their three children in a traditional beige wood and red-brick house with a white picket fence that all blended inconspicuously into the redwood tree-lined road in Los Altos' oldest neighborhood.
		Chuck is especially critical of the San Jose Mercury News, which he believes have exploited his privacy by publicizing the value of his stock options with a characterization of his face.
	latc.com /1997/10/13/special_sect/exclusive1.print.html (3163 words)

	Aftermath of a kidnapping -- Los Altos Town Crier
		Chuck Geschke talks with Dick Held, FBI bureau chief of the San Francisco office, moments after Chuck arrives home from his kidnapping ordeal.
		For the Geschkes, the happy ending to the crisis marked the beginning of a lengthy recovery process, in which family members had to wrestle with post traumatic fears, insecurities and anger, and endure a lengthy court proceeding before finally moving on with their lives.
		Less than 48 hours after his release, Chuck re-entered the same parking lot, this time surrounded by bodyguards and FBI agents, to give a first-person account to Adobe Systems employees, assure them that their lives were not in jeopardy and thank his friends, family and FBI agents for his release.
	latc.com /1997/11/03/special_sect/exclusiv1.print.html (3553 words)

	Profile: Chuck Geschke
		It was on that morning that Geschke, arriving at work, was abducted at gunpoint and held for ransom for five long days.
		As for sharing his good fortune, The Geschke Learning Resource Center at the University of San Francisco is his most visible contribution, but the family also maintains a foundation that runs educational programs for children.
		But in the end, Chuck Geschke is just a regular guy, a family man in khaki pants and plaid shirt.
	www.joelshore.com /profile_geschke.htm (1193 words)

	Changing the world through innovation, excellence and ethics -- Los Altos Town Crier
		Chuck, the son of a photo engraver, revolutionized the printing and publishing business by co-founding Adobe Systems in 1982 with kindred spirit John Warnock.
		Chuck earned a doctorate in mathematics and was teaching math at John Carroll University in Cleveland when he received a life-changing visit from a former student who thanked him for his teaching.
		The Geschke home, a 1926 Italian villa design that the Geschkes have faithfully restored, was one of the featured homes during the first tour.
	latc.com /2004/01/07/news/news01.print.html (2058 words)

	Menlo College News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Workman's award-winning article recounted the sensational kidnap at gunpoint in the Adobe's parking lot by two men who demanded $650,000 ransom from the Geschke family.
		The ransom money was paid, but Geschke, who had been held blindfolded and shackled in a "safe house" closet for a week, was later rescued by the FBI and the money recovered.
		The kidnappers, both from Middle Eastern countries and suspected as part of a larger ring, were arrested and given long prison sentences in the 1992 incident that drew national attention.
	www.menlo.edu /news_events/story.php?sn=39 (149 words)

	[wordup] more on the adobe fiasco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Here is an article on the kidnapping of Adobe co-founder Chuck Geschke: http://www.losaltosonline.com/latc/arch/9742/Exclusiv/1adobe/1adobe.html An excerpt: It was supposed to be a normal day at the office for Adobe Systems president Charles "Chuck" Geschke when he pulled into the parking lot of his Mountain View headquarters on May 26, 1992.
		Instead, his kidnapping at gunpoint by two Arabic men began a five-day nightmare in which Geschke was blindfolded and unaware of his location.
		Chuck's rescue was triggered by daughter Kathy's drop-off of ransom money and her negotiations with the captors.
	lists.spack.org /pipermail/wordup/2001/000081.html (568 words)

	About the Library
		Named in honor of Charles and Nancy Geschke, the 1997 addition to Gleeson Library typifies the renewed spirit of vigor and excitement at the University of San Francisco.
		Chuck Geschke joined the President's Roundtable in 1989, became Chairman of the Arts and Sciences Advisory Board and was appointed a Trustee in 1991.
		Since Nancy Geschke holds a Master's in Library Science degree from San Jose State University, it was natural that the couple was interested in the library addition.
	www.usfca.edu /usfca.edu/usf/library/about.html (877 words)

	Rambus: Financial Press Releases
		Retiring from the board of directors is Dr. Chuck Geschke, who has been a member since February 1996.
		Geschke is a co-founder of Adobe Systems Incorporated and has served as a director of that company since 1982, as chief operating officer from 1986 to 1995, as president from 1989 to 2000 and as chairman since 1997.
		"We would like to thank Chuck and Bill for their exceptional leadership and commitment as members of the board over the past nine and fifteen years, respectively.
	investor.rambus.com /ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=158105 (600 words)

	Adobe Systems Charles Geschke John Warnock Named 2003 EY EOY Winners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Geschke and Warnock, both Co-Founders and Co-Chairmen of Adobe Systems Inc., (NASDAQ: ADBE), along with other national Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year category winners, were selected from 400 regional award recipients by an independent panel of judges.
		Geschke and Warnock attribute the success of Adobe to keeping innovation alive – the company devotes 22% of its budget to R&D – and its commitment to serving its core constituencies.
		Geschke and Warnock have been named the national winners in the Information Technology category.
	www.ey.com /global/content.nsf/US/Media_-_Release_-_11-22-03ADC (986 words)

	Adobe takes Net to higher plateau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Chuck Geschke, president and CEO of Adobe, said it will help developers create integrated product suites to take the Internet to the 'next level'.
		Geschke said that its Bravo model was a portable and efficient model which used Postcript, despite the fact that HP will abandon it on its printers next year.
		Geschke, famous for having described OS/2 as the shape of things to come and for having been kidnapped for a ransom, said he will push Adobe software through the channel.
	www.vnunet.com /articles/print/2000624 (300 words)

	Computer History Museum - 2002 Fellow Award Recipient, John Warnock
		As part of his responsibilities at PARC, Warnock, along with Chuck Geschke and others, worked on a printer protocol called Interpress which was derived from an interpretive language Warnock helped develop called JaM.
		After leaving Xerox, Warnock and Geschke evolved JaM into the "PostScript" which, when combined in 1985 with hardware from Apple Computer formed the first "desktop publishing" (DTP) system, one in which anyone could set type, compose documents, and print them as they appeared on the screen'all electronically.
		He retired as CEO of Adobe in 2001 and is now chairman of the board, a position he shares with co-founder Geschke.
	www.computerhistory.org /events/hall_of_fellows/warnock (323 words)

	Classic Planet PDF - A PDF Day 2001 Salute to John Warnock and Charles Geschke
		So it came as a small surprise as we talked and dined that night on famous Boston chowder to spot John Warnock at a nearby table, looking fit, relaxed and happy at what appeared to be a small family dinner outing.
		(Geschke retired a year earlier.) If anyone deserves to have his privacy respected by mere peons in the publishing world that he and partner Geschke were major players in building, it was Warnock.
		When John Warnock and Chuck Geschke founded Adobe they did something similar, bringing the power of publishing to anyone with a computer.
	www.planetpdf.com /mainpage.asp?webpageid=1367 (1001 words)

	Innerview - John Warnock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1982, Warnock partnered with then XEROX employer, Dr. Charles Geschke, to found Adobe Systems Incorporated [http://www.adobe.com], with the goal of developing applications for their PostScript page description language.
		Often said to possess the genteel aura of a college professor, he is a skilled businessman, successfully ushering his company through a period of rapid growth and transition in recent years.
		Chuck and I were the first two employees.
	www.usc.edu /isd/pubarchives/networker/95-96/Mar_Apr_96/innerview.warnock.html (3147 words)

	The history of PostScript (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He and his boss, Charles M. 'Chuck' Geschke, tried for two years to convince Xerox to turn Interpress into a commercial product.
		John Warnock and Chuck Geschke named their company Adobe, after a little creek that ran behind the house of Warnock in Los Altos, California.
		At first, Warnock and Geschke thought of building a really powerful printer themselves but they soon realized that it would make more sense to develop tools for other manufacturers to control their printers.
	www.prepressure.com /ps/history/history.htm (1349 words)

	Nantucket Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Geschke Lecture Series presented by the Nantucket Atheneum continues this week with two lectures by Patricia Ebray and a lecture by David McCullough.
		The series is named for Nan and Chuck Geschke, summer residents of Nantucket and longtime supporters of the Nantucket Atheneum, in recognition of their $500,000 pledge to support the NEH’s Challenge Grant.
		Nan Geschke completed her six year term on the Board of Trustees last September and was honored by being named Trustee Emeritus.
	www.yesterdaysisland.com /05_articles/events/3lectures.html (556 words)

	DigiBarn Computer Museum: Alan O. Freier and his Dolphin & Dandelions by Xerox
		Chuck Thacker was the principle designer of both.
		The Mesa language was designed by Jim Mitchell, Ed Satterthwaite and Chuck Geschke.
		The Mesa byte-coded instruction set was designed by Butler Lampson and Chuck Thacker and originally implemented as an emulator on TENEX and in microcode on the Alto.
	www.digibarn.com /friends/alanfreier (770 words)

	Charles Geschke - TheBestLinks.com - Adobe Systems, Classics, Computer science, Carnegie-Mellon University, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	www.thebestlinks.com /Charles_Geschke.html (237 words)

	Adobe's Honchos Take a Turn in the Corporate Hot Seat
		In the wake of last week's layoffs at Adobe Systems, some in Silicon Valley are wondering whether the cuts should have started at the top, with co-founders John Warnock and Chuck Geschke.
		Last fall, Warnock and Geschke, who are co-chairmen, ousted former Chief Operating Officer Dave Pratt, a nine-year Adobe veteran.
		But he says he and Geschke finally have an executive team, with new CFO Harold Covert and marketer Bruce Chizen, to turn the graphics-software giant around.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/08/20/BU6307.DTL&type=tech_article (743 words)

	Seybold Report on Publishing Systems, Vol 25, No 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In a telephone interview, Adobe president Chuck Geschke declined to be more specific about the layoffs, other than to say that both the Chicago (Datalogics) and Seattle (Aldus) offices will remain open.
		Geschke remarked that there will be “many analogies between this merger and the way [Adobe] handled Aldus.”
		Geschke confirmed that Adobe will continue to use Frame’s headquarters offices in San Jose, which are literally across the street from Adobe’s new headquarters, due for completion in mid-1996.
	www.seyboldreports.com /SRPS/free/0ps25/P2505012.HTM (318 words)

	Live Webcast: Adobe Photoshop World 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Chuck Geschke, Adobe Systems Inc. President, co-founder, and Chairman of the Board, will deliver the keynote speech to kick off PhotoshopWorld 2000.
		A desktop publishing pioneer who steered Adobe to industry leadership in the Internet Age, Geschke will give PhotoshopWorld 2000 attendees a glimpse into the future of digital imaging.
		Also included in the keynote will be a special presentation celebrating the tenth anniversary of Adobe Photoshop and a demonstration of Adobe’s image-editing solutions and technologies for the new millennium.
	webevents.broadcast.com /adobe/photoshopworld2000 (110 words)

	Butler Lampson - Systems
		A modification of this design is used in the Xerox 9700 computer printer; I designed the basic digital architecture of the 9700.
		AN2 (1990-93) With Chuck Thacker, Mike Schroeder, and others, I designed an Asynchronous Transfer Mode switch and host adapter with 155 Mbit and 1 Gbit links, constant and variable bit rate traffic, flow controlled circuits, and very fast circuit setup [T. Anderson et al., High-speed switch scheduling for local-area networks.
		With Mark Hayter, Jay Kistler, and Chuck Thacker, I designed a hand-held device (sometimes called Lectrice) meant to be a comfortable alternative to paper for reading documents that are formatted to print on 8.5 x 11 or smaller paper.
	research.microsoft.com /lampson/systems.html (2161 words)

	PostScript. Who is PostScript? What is PostScript? Where is PostScript? Definition of PostScript. Meaning of PostScript.
		This work later evolved into an expanded system known as Interpress.
		After watching Xerox sit on Interpress, as they had with many of their other technologies, Warnock left with Chuck Geschke and founded Adobe Systems in December 1982.
		They started selling a simpler version of Interpress as PostScript, which went on the market in 1985.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/PostScript (2815 words)

	creativepro.com - Adobe management sees shakeup
		President and co-founder Chuck Geschke is retiring soon.
		One of his last official acts in his leadership role will be to give the keynote speech that kicks off PhotoshopWorld 2000, the second annual convention of the National Association of Photoshop.
		The event is held March 30, 31, and April 1 at Orlando, Florida's Orange County Convention Center.
	www.creativepro.com /story/news/4344.html (303 words)

	Forbes.com - Magazine Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		President Chuck Geschke thinks Adobe has some neat tricks up its sleeve.
		However, a bigger opportunity, Geschke says, is the consumer and small-office market.
		PhotoDeluxe targeted at small consumers costs $49 for a copy, versus $895 for PhotoShop, and is now being bundled with peripheral devices like digital cameras and scanners.
	www.forbes.com /1997/10/28/feat_side1_print.html (489 words)

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