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John Warnock
KindPerson
Born1940
Died2023
StatusDead

Invented PostScript's imaging model at Xerox PARC and co-founded Adobe with Geschke.

Co-founded Adobe with Geschke, co-created PostScript (1984) — the language that made printers computers — and built the company that owned document standards for decades.\n\nAlso invented the Warnock algorithm (hidden surface removal); the Adobe origin story is his PhD thesis topic made real.