Paul Charlton (technologist)

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Paul Charlton is a software and hardware consultant in Silicon Valley. He was a pioneer in developing freeware and open source computer programs. He was the founder of C2B Technologies.

Timeline of notable technological contributions

• 1985 FastTerm - One of the earliest known Freeware and open-source programs for browsing and participating in online communities such as CompuServe, The Source, Delphi and Bulletin Board System networks which pre-dated the existence of the World Wide Web ^{[1] ,}. ^[2]
• 1987 Myarc Disk Operating System (MDOS) - operating system for consumer oriented personal computer. ^[3]
• 1987 Myarc 9640 Geneve - single-board consumer oriented personal computer.
• 1994 QuickTime - market leading multimedia presentation engine for Windows, Mac OS and other platforms.
• 1996 Carbon API for Mac OS - legacy application compatibility on Apple Computer's Darwin Kernel (derived from QTML authored for QuickTime).
• 1996 Created a company named C Innovation which makes the student information system called Zangle.
• 1997 C2B Technologies, Inc - Founder and CTO of company which developed market leading Internet comparison shopping engine, company was acquired in 1998 by Inktomi, ^{[4] [5]} which was later acquired by Yahoo ^[6]
• 1998 Java 2D - key contributor to graphics library distributed by Sun Microsystems as part of its Java developer kits since 1998 ^{[7] ,}. ^[8]

Education

Charlton received a BS in the disciplines of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE) from RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

References

• Who, Marquis (1997). Who's Who in the World 1997. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. ISBN   978-0-8379-1117-5.
• Who, Marquis (1999). Who's Who in America 1999: a-K. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. ISBN   978-0-8379-0192-3.
• Who, Marquis (1997). Who's Who in the Media and Communications 1998-99. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. ISBN   978-0-8379-3950-6.
• Who, Who's (1995). Who's Who in Finance and Industry 1996-1997. New York: Reed Reference Publishing. ISBN   978-0-8379-0330-9.
• Who, Marquis (1994). Who's Who in Science and Engineering. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. ISBN   978-0-8379-5752-4.

Citations

1. "Fast-Term" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-12-26.
2. Albright, Ronald G. (1985). The orphan chronicles. Millers Graphics. ISBN   978-0-931831-01-0.
3. "The TI-99 Home Computer Encyclopedia: Timeline 99 - 1987" . Retrieved 2008-12-26.
4. Kormblum, Janet (1 September 1998). "Inktomi to buy C2B". C/Net News. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014.
5. "Inktomi to Acquire C2B Technologies in $90 Million Deal". The New York Times. 2 September 1998.
6. "Company Overview of Inktomi Corporation". Business Week. 19 March 2003. Archived from the original on 12 January 2013.
7. "Java Developer Kit Source Code". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
8. "Java Developer Kit Source Code". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2008-12-26.

External links

• Paul Charlton on LinkedIn