Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is most notable for leading the development of the X Window System from the project"s inception in 1984 until the closure of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology X Consortium in 1996. He later became one of the architects of the Jini architecture at Sun Microsystems. Bob has stated that his goal in developing the X Window System was to raise the floor in windowing systems for the entire market, and despite its early adoption primarily by commercial players with proprietary extensions, X ended up as a standard, open system.
X is an important part of Linux to this day.
Scheifler holds a Bachelor of Surgery in Mathematics and an Master of Surgery in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.