| January 15, 2004 |
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| What: | On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, Charles M. Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, will lecture at John Carroll University in a talk entitled “A 40 Year Journey That Started at John Carroll University – Stories from Adobe.” The presentation will be held at 4:00 p.m. in the Donahue Auditorium in the Dolan Center for Science and Technology. From 1963-1968, Geschke was a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at John Carroll |
| Who: |
Charles
Geschke co-founded Adobe Systems in 1982 with John Warnock. 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 joined Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the early 1970s as a research scientist in their computer sciences laboratory where he worked on programming language design and machine architecture, including the “Mesa” language which was the basis for the Xerox Star workstation. In 1978, Geschke formed the Imaging Sciences Laboratory at PARCwhere he directed research activities in the fields of computer science, graphics, image processing and optics. With John Warnock, the pair invented a Page Description Language (PDL), called Interpress, which was a means of describing complex forms like typefaces electronically. When Xerox decided not to commercialize this invention, Geschke and Warnock left PARC and co-founded Adobe Systems. Interpress evolved into Adobe’s “PostScript” which, when combined in 1985 with hardware from Apple Computer (including Apple’s new LaserWriter printer), 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. Because it stored fonts as outline format descriptions, PostScript was machine-independent and extremely flexible. This new approach allowed business users to greatly improve the quality and efficiency of their document production, spawning an entire industry. Since the invention of PostScript, Adobe has become a powerhouse in electronic imaging through both acquisitions and internal development projects, and is the industry leader in most graphic arts software, especially their PhotoShop and Illustrator programs. Geschke holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University and an M.S. in mathematics and a A.B. in classics, both from Xavier University. In 2000, Geschke was ranked the seventh most influential graphics person of the last millennium by Graphics Exchange magazine. |
| Where/When |
4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 Dolan Center for Science and Technology John
Carroll University 20700 North Park Blvd. University Hts., Ohio Reception immediately following lecture CONTACT: Christine Somosi at 216-397-4663 for more information |
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