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Robert William Scheifler (born June 24, 1954) is an American computer scientist. He was born in Kirkwood, Missouri. He is most notable for leading the development of the X Window System from the project's inception in 1984 until the closure of the MIT X Consortium in 1996. He later became one of the architects of the Jini architecture at Sun Microsystems.

Scheifler holds a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

References

1. Robert W. Scheifler and James Gettys: X Window System: Core and extension protocols: X version 11, releases 6 and 6.1, Digital Press, 1996. ISBN 1-55558-148-X.
2. Bill Venners, Jini Security: A Conversation with Bob Scheifler, Part I, Artima, July 8, 2002].

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• Bob Scheifler, LinkedIn

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