Paul Charlton is a software and hardware consultant in

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. He was a pioneer in developing

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and

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computer programs. He was the founder of C2B Technologies.

Timeline of notable technological contributions

*1985 FastTerm - One of the earliest known

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and open-source programs for browsing and participating in

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such as

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and

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networks which pre-dated the existence of the

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^,. *1987

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(MDOS) - operating system for consumer oriented personal computer. *1987 Myarc 9640 Geneve - single-board consumer oriented personal computer. *1994

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- market leading multimedia presentation engine for

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and other platforms. *1996

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for

- legacy application compatibility on Apple Computer's Darwin Kernel (derived from QTML authored for QuickTime). * 1996 Created a company named C Innovation which makes the student information system called

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. *1997 C2B Technologies, Inc - Founder and CTO of company which developed market leading

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, company was acquired in 1998 by

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, which was later acquired by

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*1998

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- key contributor to graphics library distributed by

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as part of its

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developer kits since 1998^,.

Education

Charlton received a BS in the disciplines of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE) from RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

References

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Citations

External links

* Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-compu-bio-stub