Steve Dorner is an American
software engineer
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who developed the
Eudora e-mail client
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A web application which provides message management, composition, and reception functio ...
in 1988 as a part of his work as a staff member at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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.
Dorner was hired by
Qualcomm
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in July 1992 and Eudora was subsequently acquired by Qualcomm. Dorner also developed a popular online directory/phone book in the early 1990s commonly referred to as the
CCSO Nameserver
A CCSO name-server or Ph protocol was an early form of database search on the Internet. In its most common form it was used to look up information such as telephone numbers and email addresses. Today this service has been largely replaced by LDAP. ...
.
Dorner received his
bachelor's degree
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in 1983 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
A 1997 interview with ''
The New York Times
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'' describes how Dorner, when he stopped working for the University and started working for Qualcomm, chose not to move to
California
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. Instead, he was a
remote work
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er from an office in a 1950s bomb shelter under his home in
Urbana, Illinois
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. Later, he moved his office to his woodworking shop, which is heated.
As of 2006, Dorner was one of Qualcomm engineers tasked with shifting Eudora to a
Mozilla Thunderbird
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base.
Cancer diagnosis
In November 2010, Dorner was diagnosed with cancer, which manifested itself first as testicular cancer. As of January 2011, his personal blog reported that treatment was continuing. In July 2011, Dorner reported that his cancer might have been eradicated.
[Dorner, Steve]
“Info: PET CT Round III”
References
External links
Project Penelope
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
American software engineers
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