The Washington Post: Charles Geschke, Adobe co-founder who helped spark desktop publishing, dies at 81
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Charles Geschke
Charles Matthew "Chuck" Geschke was an American businessman and computer scientist best known for founding the graphics and publishing software company Adobe Inc. with John Warnock in 1982, with whom he also co-created the PDF document format.
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business · American computer scientist and co-founder of Adobe (1939–2021) · entrepreneur · computer scientist · university teacher · software developer · also Charles Geschke, Charles M. Geschke, Chuck Geschke, Charles Matthew Geschke, Geschke
Born 11 September 1939 · Died 16 April 2021 · Q2959209
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2021· 7 entries
AppleInsider: Adobe co-founder Charles Geschke dies
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Wall Street Journal: Adobe Co-Founder Charles Geschke, Pioneer of Desktop Publishing and PDFs, Dies at Age 81
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Engadget: Adobe co-founder Charles Geschke dies at 81
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Benzinga.com: Adobe Co-Founder And Developer Of PDFs Charles Geschke Dies At Age 81
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Died 2021-04-16.
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2012· 1 entry
Was elected to the American Philosophical Society
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2010· 3 entries
The Marconi Society co-awarded Geschke and Warnock the Marconi Prize
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Awarded Marconi Prize (2010).
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Completed his term as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of San Francisco
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2009· 1 entry
And was ranked 1,069th on the Forbes Global 2000 list in 2010
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2008· 3 entries
Won National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2008).
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Received the Computer Entrepreneur Award from the IEEE Computer Society
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Was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (2002).
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Was made a fellow of the Computer History Museum for "his accomplishments in the commercialization of desktop publishing with John Warnock and for innovations in scalable type, computer graphics and printing
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2000· 1 entry
Shortly before his partner Warnock left as CEO
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded ACM Fellow (1999).
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Geschke was inducted as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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1995· 1 entry
Was elected to the National Academy of Engineering
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded ACM Software System Award (1989).
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1986· 1 entry
Career landmark: chief operating officer (1986–1994).
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1982· 2 entries
With whom he also co-created the PDF document format
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Naming the company after the Adobe Creek that ran behind Warnock's home
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1978· 1 entry
Geschke started the Imaging Sciences Laboratory at PARC, and conducted research in the areas of graphics, optics, and image processing
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1972· 1 entry
Completed his PhD studies in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University under the advice of William Wulf
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1962· 1 entry
And an MS in mathematics in 1963, both from Xavier University
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1961· 1 entry
Geschke was a Catholic and met his wife Nancy "Nan" McDonough at a religious conference on social action in the spring of 1961.
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1939· 1 entry
Born 1939-09-11.
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