Education
Yale University; Carnegie Mellon University.
engineer programmer university professor computer scientist
Yale University; Carnegie Mellon University.
He founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming. Ousterhout previously was a professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley where he created the Tcl scripting language and the Tk platform-independent widget toolkit, and proposed the idea of coscheduling. 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 Very-large-scale integration Computer-aided design program
He received his Bachelor"s degree in Physics from Yale University in 1975, and his Doctor of Philosophy in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1980. Foreign the same work, he was inducted in 1994 as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
In 1994, Ousterhout left Berkeley to join Sun Microsystems Laboratories, which hired a team to join him in Tcl development. After several years at Sun, he left and co-founded Scriptics, Incorporated.
(later renamed Ajuba Solutions) in January 1998 to provide professional Tcl development tools.
Most of the Tcl team followed him from Sun. Ajuba was purchased by Interwoven in October 2000. He joined the faculty of Stanford University in 2008.
Ousterhout is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.