John Ousterhout
John Kenneth Ousterhout (/ˈoʊstərhaʊt/, born
October 15, 1954) is an American computer scientist. John Ousterhout
He is a professor of computer science at Stanford
University. He founded Electric Cloud with John
Graham-Cumming.
Ousterhout was previously 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 Born October 15, 1954
coscheduling.[1] Ousterhout led the research group that Solano County, California, U.S.
designed the experimental Sprite operating system and Education Yale University (BS)
the first log-structured file system.[2] Ousterhout also Carnegie Mellon University (PhD)
led the team that developed the Magic VLSI computer-
Known for Tcl, Tk
aided design (CAD) program.[3]
Magic
Raft (algorithm)
Education and career Awards Grace Murray Hopper Award
(1987)
He received a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in physics ACM Software System Award
from Yale University in 1975, and his Ph.D. in (1997)
computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in Scientific career
1980.[4] Fields Computer science
Ousterhout received the Grace Murray Hopper Award Institutions Stanford University
in 1987 for his work on Electronic design automation Website web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin
CAD systems for very-large-scale integrated /home.php (https://web.stanford.e
circuits.[5] For the same work, he was inducted in 1994 du/~ouster/cgi-bin/home.php)
as a Fellow of the Association for Computing
Machinery.[6] Ousterhout was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for
improving our ability to program computers by raising the level of abstraction.
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, Inc. (later renamed
Ajuba Solutions) in January 1998 to provide professional Tcl development tools.[4] 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.[4]
Selected works
Michael Stonebraker; Randy Katz, David Patterson, John Ousterhout (1988). "THE DESIGN
OF XPRS" (https://dsf.berkeley.edu/papers/ERL-M88-19.pdf) (PDF). VLDB: 318–330.
Archived (https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://dsf.berkeley.edu/papers/ERL-M
88-19.pdf) (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
A Philosophy of Software Design, (Yaknyam Press, 2018, ISBN 1732102201)
See also
Ousterhout's dichotomy
Raft (computer science)
References
1. Ousterhout, J.K.; Jones, K. (2009). Tcl and the Tk Toolkit (https://books.google.com/books?i
d=BWf6mdwHjDMC&pg=PT30). Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series. Pearson
Education. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-321-67086-1. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
2. Rosenblum, Mendel; Ousterhout, John K. (1992). "The design and implementation of a log-
structured file system" (https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262/LFS.pdf) (PDF).
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. 10 (1): 26–52. doi:10.1145/146941.146943 (http
s://doi.org/10.1145%2F146941.146943). ISSN 0734-2071 (https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0
734-2071). S2CID 28452863 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:28452863).
Archived (https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brew
er/cs262/LFS.pdf) (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09.
3. Ousterhout, John; Hamachi, Gordon; Mayo, Robert; Scott, Walter; Taylor, George (1985).
"The Magic VLSI Layout System". IEEE Design & Test of Computers. 2 (1): 19–30.
doi:10.1109/MDT.1985.294681 (https://doi.org/10.1109%2FMDT.1985.294681). ISSN 0740-
7475 (https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0740-7475).
4. "John Ousterhout" (https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/home.php).
5. Grace Murray Hopper Award citation (http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1957745&srt=al
l&aw=145&ao=GMHOPPER&yr=1987) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20120402211
950/http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1957745&srt=all&aw=145&ao=GMHOPPER&yr=
1987) 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2010-04-21.
6. ACM Fellow citation (http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=1957745&srt=all),
retrieved 2010-04-21.
External links
John's recounting of Tcl's early days (http://www.tcl.tk/advocacy/tclHistory.html)
Ousterhout's web page at Stanford University (http://www.stanford.edu/~ouster/)
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