factograf
EN
Sign in

Computer programmer

Jef Poskanzer

Jef Poskanzer

Key facts

date of birth1958
occupationprogrammer, engineer
place of birthNew York City
employerApple Inc.
position heldReverend
All data from the card 2
Occupation
computer programmer
Known for
pbmplus

Jeffrey A. Poskanzer is a computer programmer. He was the first person to post a weekly FAQ to Usenet. He developed the portable pixmap file format and pbmplus (the precursor to the Netpbm package) to manipulate it. He has also worked on the team that ported A/UX. He has shared in two USENIX Lifetime Achievement Awards – in 1993 for Berkeley Unix, and in 1996 for the Software Tools Project.

He owns the Internet domain name acme.com (which is notable for receiving over one million e-mail spams a day), which is the home page for ACME Laboratories. It hosts a number of open source software projects; major projects maintained include both pbmplus and thttpd, an open source web server.

Read next

In 7 languages

Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source article