John Ousterhout

John Ousterhout (pronounced ) was a professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley. While there, he created the Tcl scripting language and the Tk platform-independent widget toolkit. Ousterhout also led the research group that designed the experimental Sprite operating system and the first log-structured file system. Ousterhout is also the original author of the Magic VLSI Computer-aided design program.
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<person> /oh'st*r-howt/ John K. Ousterhout, the designer of Tcl and Tk, and founder of Scriptics.
See also: Ousterhout's dichotomy.
E-mail: john.ousterhout@scriptics.com.
(1999-02-21)