EXperimental Computing Facility

Founded in 1986, the eXperimental Computing Facility (XCF) is an undergraduate computing-interest organization at University of California, Berkeley. The "Experimental" description was given in contrast to the Open Computing Facility and the Computer Science Undergraduate Association,^[1] which support most of the general-interest computing desires of the campus. As such, the XCF stands as a focus for a small group of computer-scientists uniquely interested in computer science.

Members of the organization have been involved in projects such as NNTP,^[2] GTK,^[2][3] GIMP,^[2][3] Gnutella,^[2] and Viola.^[2] Members of the XCF were instrumental in defending against the Morris Internet worm.^[2][3]

Notable alumni

Notable alumni of the organization include: Jonathan Blow,^[4][5] Gene Kan,^[2] Spencer Kimball,^[2] Peter Mattis,^[2] Pei-Yuan Wei,^[2] and Phil Lapsley.^[2][3]