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America’s 5 Most Notorious Cold Cases (Including One You May Have Thought Was Already Solved)

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John Warnock

American computer scientist

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Adobe Illustrator

In Adobe Illustrator
…in 1982 by American mathematicians John Warnock and Chuck Geschke and burst onto the Silicon Valley scene with PostScript, a vector-based program—using lines defined by mathematical formulas, as opposed to individual bit- or pixel-based descriptions—that vastly improved publishing quality and was instrumental in the so-called desktop publishing revolution. PostScript’s success…
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Adobe Inc.

In Adobe Inc.: Founding of Adobe
…was founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. While employed at Xerox Corporation’s Palo Alto (California) Research Center (PARC), the two computer scientists had developed a programming language specially designed to describe the precise position, shape, and size of objects on a computer-generated page. This page description language,…
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