Quentin Stafford-Fraser
Computer programmer
James Quentin Stafford-Fraser is a computer scientist and entrepreneur based in Cambridge, England. He was one of the team that created the first webcam, the Trojan room coffee pot.2
From Wikipedia’s article on Quentin Stafford-Fraser (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born May 18, 1967.1
About
Quentin pointed a camera at the coffee pot and wrote the XCoffee client program which allowed the image of the pot to be displayed on a workstation screen. When web browsers gained the ability to display images, the system was modified to make the coffee pot images available over HTTP and thus became the first webcam.
Quentin wrote the original VNC client (viewer) and server for the Windows operating system, while at the Olivetti Research Laboratory.
He is a regular public speaker and his work has attracted significant media coverage.
Quentin is also a part-time Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge Computer Lab. In 2013 he was a member of the winning team on Christmas University Challenge, representing Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.
From Wikipedia’s article on Quentin Stafford-Fraser, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2
Companies
- DisplayLinkFounder3
Links
Sources
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- 2WikipediaQuentin Stafford-Fraser on Wikipedia
- 3WikidataDisplayLink, Founder