At the age of 82, from pancreatic cancer
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John Warnock
John Edward Warnock was an American computer scientist, inventor, technology businessman, and philanthropist best known for co-founding Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company, with Charles Geschke in 1982. Warnock was President of Adobe for his first two years and chairman and CEO for his remaining sixteen years at the company. Although he retired as CEO in 2001, he conti…
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business · American computer scientist, inventor and technology businessman (1940–2023) · computer scientist · engineer · entrepreneur · businessperson · mathematician · also John Warnock, John E. Warnock, John Edward Warnock, Warnock
Born 6 October 1940 · Died 19 August 2023 · Q1344392
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2023· 2 entries
Died 2023-08-19.
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2010· 2 entries
Awarded Marconi Prize (2010).
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Warnock and Geschke received the Marconi Prize, an honor specifically for contributions to information science and communications
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2008· 2 entries
Won National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2008).
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Warnock and Geschke received the Computer Entrepreneur Award from the IEEE Computer Society "for inventing PostScript and PDF and helping to launch the desktop publishing revolution and change the way people engage with
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2007· 1 entry
And houses the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute and the Dean of the University of Utah College of Engineering
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2004· 2 entries
Won Lovelace Medal (2004).
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Warnock received the Lovelace Medal from the British Computer Society in London
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2003· 2 entries
Won Bodley Medal (2003).
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Warnock and his wife donated 200,000 shares of Adobe Systems, Inc
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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 Chuck Geschke and for innovations in scalable type, computer graphics and printing
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2001· 1 entry
Continued to co-chair the Adobe Board of Directors with Geschke until 2017
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2000· 1 entry
Won Edwin H. Land Medal (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded ACM Fellow (1999).
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1995· 1 entry
Warnock received the University of Utah Distinguished Alumnus Award and in 1999 he was inducted as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded ACM Software System Award (1989).
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1984· 1 entry
Career landmark: chief executive officer (1984–2000).
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1982· 1 entry
Naming it after Adobe Creek, which ran behind both their homes
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1976· 1 entry
While Warnock worked at Evans & Sutherland, a Salt Lake City–based computer graphics company, the concepts of the PostScript language were seeded
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1970· 1 entry
With accompanying article by Ivan Sutherland
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1940· 2 entries
Born 1940-10-06.
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And raised in the Salt Lake City, Utah suburb of Holladay
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