John Warnock
American computer scientist, inventor and technology businessman (1940–2023)
Also known as John E. Warnock · John Edward Warnock
- Born
- October 6, 1940
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- October 6, 1940
- Died
- August 19, 2023
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Sources- 1.“Adobe Co-Founder Dr. John Warnock Passes at 82”businesswire.com/news/home/20230820585683/en/Adobe-Co-Founder-Dr.-John-Warnock-Passes-at-82Retrieved 2023-08-20
- August 19, 2023
- Birthplace
- Place of death
- Citizenship
- Occupation
- computer scientist
- , engineer
- , entrepreneur
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- +2 more
- Positions held
- chief executive officer(1984–2000)
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Sources- 1.“Dr. John E. Warnock: Co-founder and former chairman of the boardAdobe Systems Incorporated”wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/leaders/pdfs/warnock.pdfRetrieved 2023-08-20
- chief executive officer(1984–2000)
- Education
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- Awards
- Marconi Prize(2010)
- National Medal of Technology and Innovation(2008) award rationale: For the pioneering contributions that spurred the desktop publishing revolution and for changing the way people create and engage with information and entertainment across multiple mediums including print, Web and video.
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Sources- 1.“John Warnock: National Medal of Technology and Innovation, Computer Science”nationalmedals.org/laureate/john-warnock/
- Lovelace Medal(2004)
- Bodley Medal(2003)
- Computer History Museum Fellow(2002)
- Edwin H. Land Medal(2000)
- ACM Fellow(1999) award rationale: For three decades, Warnock has been respected as an innovator in the field of computer software. One of Warnock's most outstanding achievements is the development of the PostScript language.
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Sources- 1.“ACM Fellows: John Warnock”awards.acm.org/award_winners/warnock_4021408#158Retrieved 2023-12-11
- ACM Software System Award(1989) for work: PostScript · award rationale: For the design of PostScript page description language and its implementation. · together with: Charles Geschke, Bill Paxton
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Sources- 1.“ACM Fellows: John Warnock”awards.acm.org/award_winners/warnock_4021408#149Retrieved 2023-12-11
- Member of
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- National Academy of Engineering
- Association for Computing Machinery(since 1999) subject has role: ACM Fellow
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- American Philosophical Society(since 2009)
- Name in native language
- John Warnock
- Cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
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Sources- 1.“John Warnock, Inventor of the PDF, Dies at 82”nytimes.com/2023/08/24/technology/john-warnock-dead.html
- pancreatic cancer
- Field of work
- computing
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Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2026-01-17
- computer program
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Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2026-01-17
- software engineering
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Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2026-01-17
- computing
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29 identifiers linking John Warnock across the web's reference databases
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