John Ousterhout

Updated: 12/30/2019 by Computer Hope
John Ousterhout

Name: John Kenneth Ousterhout

Born: October 15, 1954, in Solano County, San Francisco, CA, USA

Computer-related contributions

  • Chairman and Founder of Electric Cloud, Inc. and professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley. Creator of the Tcl scripting language and the Tk platform-independent widget toolkit.
  • Led the research group that designed the experimental Sprite operating system and the first log-structured file system.
  • Original author of the Magic VLSI Computer-aided design program.

Significant publications

  • Fast Crash Recovery in RAMCloud (2011).
  • The Case for RAMCloud (2011).
  • Integrating Long Polling with an MVC Web Framework (2011).
  • Scripting: Higher-Level Programming for the 21st Century (1998).
  • Tcl and the Tk Toolkit (1994).
  • The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System (1992).
  • Why Aren't Operating Systems Getting Faster as Fast as Hardware (1990).

Honors and awards

  • National Academy of Engineering (2001).
  • ACM Software System Award (1997).
  • ACM Fellow (1994).
  • ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award (1987).
  • U.C. Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award (1985).
  • National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator (1984-1989).
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1976-1979).

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