Bob Scheifler

Robert William Scheifler (born June 24, 1954) is an American computer scientist. He was born in Kirkwood, Missouri. He is most notable for leading the development of the X Window System from the project's inception in 1984 until the closure of the MIT X Consortium in 1996.^[1] He later became one of the architects of the Jini architecture at Sun Microsystems.^[2]

Robert William Scheifler
Born	(1954-06-24) June 24, 1954 (age 71) Kirkwood, Missouri, U.S.
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for	X Window System, Jini
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science

Scheifler holds a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^{[citation needed]}