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  John Warnock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Warnock was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 6, 1940.
Unable to convince Xerox management of the approach to commercialize Warnock's Interpress graphics language for controlling printing, the two left Xerox to start Adobe in 1982.
Warnock invented what is now called the Warnock algorithm for hidden surface determination in computer graphics.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Warnock   (195 words)

  
 John W. Hinckley, Jr. Biography
JOHN W. John Warnock Hinckley, Jr., was born in Ardmore, Oklahoma, on May 29, 1955.
His father, John W. Hinckley, Sr., was a successful and wealthy Chairman and President of the Vanderbilt Energy Corporation while JoAnn Moore Hinckley, John’s mother, was a homemaker who doted on her children, especially John, whom she felt was more introverted than his older siblings.
John’s older sister, Diane, was popular and outgoing, a straight "A" student in high school and a graduate of SMU in Dallas.
www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/hinckley/HBIO.HTM   (1044 words)

  
 warnock building: University of Utah News Release: Oct. 11, 2004
It is named for John and Marva Warnock – both of whom are University of Utah alumni – in recognition of more than $9 million in total contributions to the university, including two Presidential Endowed Chairs and $6 million for the building.
Marva Warnock (B.S. ’66) is a designer and partner with Marsh Design in Palo Alto, Calif. John Warnock (B.S. ’64, Ph.D. ’69) is co-chairman of the board of Adobe Systems, Inc., a company he co-founded in 1982 with Charles Geschke.
Warnock pioneered the development of world-renowned graphics, publishing, web and electronic document technologies that revolutionized publishing, design and visual communication.
www.utah.edu /unews/releases/04/oct/warnock.html   (520 words)

  
 Classic Planet PDF - John Warnock on PDF: Its Past, Present and Future
John Warnock: It's probably going to be surprising to you, but the first real germ of the idea was in 1984.
Warnock: The people who were in publishing and who were really involved in the process knew the implications of having a format where you can send a document across platforms and across network structures and preserve all of the fonts, because it's not a new problem.
Warnock: I have a Titanium portable; I have a G4.
www.planetpdf.com /mainpage.asp?webpageid=1841   (3348 words)

  
 Warnock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1924), a British philosopher and chair of the committees which produced the Warnock Report (1978): Special Educational Needs and the Warnock Report (1984): Human Fertilisation and Embryology.
Warnock's Dilemma, interpretations of a lack of response to web postings
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Warnock   (119 words)

  
 PS History
At that time John Gaffney, of Evans and Sutherland, was developing an interpreter for a large three-dimensonal graphics database of New York harbour.
John Warnock then joined the Xerox Coporation's Palo Alto Research Centre (Xerox P.A.R.C) to work with Martin Newell.
In 1982, John Warnock left Xerox, together with Chuck Geschke, and founded Adobe Systems Inc. The name Adobe was taken from an Indian creek near to where John Warnock lived.
www.geocities.com /SiliconValley/5682/PSHistory.html   (1303 words)

  
 creativepro.com - Dialog Box - John Warnock
, John Warnock has, along with co-founder Charles Geschke, presided over the company's emergence as a leader in the graphics and publishing industry.
Among his achievements, Warnock holds four patents and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Utah.
John Warnock: Over the past 15 years, a couple of things have happened.
www.creativepro.com /story/feature/2804.html   (844 words)

  
 Interview with John Warnock, Adobe Systems.: TWST
JOHN E. WARNOCK is CEO of Adobe Systems.
Dr. Warnock: Adobe was founded in December of 1982, very close to sort of the advent of the popular personal computer.
Dr. Warnock: I think we're changing our sales strategy to be a more leveraged strategy where we can do a lot more one to many events, and get a broader reach across the horizontal market that we address.
www.twst.com /notes/articles/jax206.html   (318 words)

  
 The history of PostScript   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The history of PostScript starts at Parc, the research institute of Xerox, where many of the computer technologies we now take for granted were developed: the laser printer, the graphical user interface and ethernet are some prime examples.
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)

  
 VAW: The Macintosh and Desktop Publishing, Part Two
John Warnock, a former computer scientist at the Xerox PARC, started Adobe Systems in 1982.
Warnock and many other developers who converted to the Macintosh way would soon find out that the Apple corporate way would turn into something very different.
Warnock was ecstatic and spent the better part of the 1980's making the Macintosh a viable platform.
homepage.mac.com /vectronic/macintosh/desktop2.html   (932 words)

  
 John Warnock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
When I was a graduate student at Stanford University I had the pleasure of working with John Warnock at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
I was interested in computers and graphic design, and John's page description language JaM (for authors John Warnock and Martin Newell, who created JaM before Xerox at University of Utah) was just my cup of tea.
John even wrote me some special transformations for mapping designs onto spirals and spheres.
www.scottkim.com /inversions/gallery/warnock.html   (185 words)

  
 Computer Industry Icon John Warnock to Retire from Adobe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Warnock will remain as chairman of the board alongside co-founder Geschke.
Under Warnock's technical leadership, Adobe has pioneered the development of world-renowned graphics,publishing, Web and electronic document technologies that revolutionized the field of visual communication.Warnock holds six patents, is one of the world's most respected computer software innovators, and has been the recipient of numerous industry awards over the last three decades for his outstanding achievements.
Warnock also has been active in the area of corporate philanthropy.He was a founding member of the Tech Museum of Innovation, where he served as chairman when the Tech was constructed and opened; today he continues to sit on the board of directors.
www.unleash.com /press/adobewarnockretires.html   (782 words)

  
 Parlor Press: Effective Writing, Warnock
John Phelps Warnock has a J.D. (1968) from the New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden Scholar.
Over the last twenty-five years, he has consulted on legal writing to law firms and judicial groups in the United States and Canada and was a long-time member of the faculty for the annual Judgment Writing Seminar offered by the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice.
Harold C. “Hal” Warnock (1912-1997) was a member of the Arizona Bar for over sixty years.
www.parlorpress.com /warnock.html   (582 words)

  
 Planet PDF - John Warnock's 'Camelot' signalled birth of PDF
The "Camelot" Paper: In the Spring of 1991, Dr. John Warnock first described the market opportunity for Acrobat in this document.
Download a PDF version of Dr. Warnock's original Camelot Project [PDF: 15kb] paper.
This document describes the base technology and ideas behind the project named "Camelot." This project's goal is to solve a fundamental problem that confronts today's companies.
www.planetpdf.com /enterprise/article.asp?ContentID=6519   (2246 words)

  
 The 80s Server -- Icons: John Hinckley, Jr.
It is possible that depression over the assassination of John Lennon may have contributed to Hinckley's psychosis.
However, he may have been attempting to fulfill the "Taxi Driver" role a year earlier when he was arrested for illegal gun posession in Nashville while President Carter was visiting that city.
Hinckley attempted suicide several times in the months that followed after learning that Jodie Foster, of course, did not love him.
www.80s.com /Icons/Bios/john_hinckley_jr.html   (213 words)

  
 Alibris: John Warnock
Instead of relying on intimidating user manuals, readers can use this easy-to-understand reference to find out how to produce powerful and effective long documents.
It considers what makes writing effective in letters of various kinds, forms, bills, the many kinds of writing done through the trial, writing for an appeal, contracts, and writing for wills and trusts.
Isolation is part of the psyche of this sparsely populated prairie province, and this abundance of great open space has uniquely shaped the people, their politics, their economy and their relationship with the rest of North America., /P> Using the broad, interdisciplinary social science approach of political economy analysis, Warnock traces...
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/John_Warnock   (625 words)

  
 John Warnock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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