Background
Johnson, Mark Scott was born on April 16, 1951 in Oakland, California, United States. Son of John Harley and Marjorie (Reynolds) Johnson.
Johnson, Mark Scott was born on April 16, 1951 in Oakland, California, United States. Son of John Harley and Marjorie (Reynolds) Johnson.
Bachelor with high honors, University California, Santa Barbara, 1973. Master of Science, University California, Santa Barbara, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy, University British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1978.
Assistant professor computer science, San Francisco State University, 1978-1980; member technical staff, Hewlett-Packard laboratories, Palo Alto, California, 1980-1985; engineering manager, Hewlett-Packard laboratories, Palo Alto, California, 1985-1986; engineering manager, Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, California, 1986-1990; training manager, Microtec Research, Inc., Santa Clara, California, 1990-1994; senior engineering manager, Java Soft, Palo Alto, California, 1994-1996; chief technology officer, Vivid Studios, San Francisco, 1996-1997; engineering director, Softwire Corporation, Larkspur, California, since 1997.
Member Association Computing Machinery (vice-chairman Special Interest Group on Programming Languages 1984-1987, chairman 1987-1988, chairman SIG board 1990-1992, program chairman symposium on high-level debugging 1983, general chairman symposium Interpreters and Interpretive Techniques 1987, symposium Principles of Programming Languages 1986, symposium programming language design and implementation 1990, general chairman multimedia conference 1997, Recognition of Service award 1985, 87, 89, 90), Phi Beta Kappa.