Robert William Scheifler (born June 24, 1954) is an American

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus ( ...

. He was born in

Kirkwood, Missouri Kirkwood is an inner-ring western suburb of St. Louis located in St. Louis County, Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 27,540. Founded in 1853, the city is named after James P. Kirkwood, builder of the Pacific Railroad th ...

. He is most notable for leading the development of the

X Window System The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems. X provides the basic framework for a GUI environment: drawing and moving windows on the display device and interacting ...

from the project's inception in 1984 until the closure of the MIT X Consortium in 1996. He later became one of the architects of the

Jini Jini (), also called Apache River, is a network architecture for the construction of distributed systems in the form of modular co-operating services. JavaSpaces is a part of the Jini. Originally developed by Sun Microsystems, Jini was released ...

architecture at

Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, ...

.Bill Venners,
Jini Security: A Conversation with Bob Scheifler, Part I
'
Artima
July 8, 2002]. Scheifler holds a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includin ...

from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern t ...

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Bob Scheifler

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1954 births Living people People from Kirkwood, Missouri Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni X Window System people Sun Microsystems people Free software programmers American computer programmers American computer scientists MIT School of Engineering alumni {{US-compu-bio-stub