Paul Charlton (technologist)

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Paul Charlton is a software and hardware consultant in Silicon Valley. He was a pioneer in developing freeware and open source computer programs. He was the founder of C2B Technologies.

Timeline of notable technological contributions

• 1985 FastTerm - One of the earliest known Freeware and open-source programs for browsing and participating in online communities such as CompuServe, The Source, Delphi and Bulletin Board System networks which pre-dated the existence of the World Wide Web^[1],.^[2]
• 1987 Myarc Disk Operating System (MDOS) - operating system for consumer oriented personal computer.^[3]
• 1987 Myarc 9640 Geneve - single-board consumer oriented personal computer.
• 1994 QuickTime - market leading multimedia presentation engine for Windows, Mac OS and other platforms.
• 1996 Carbon API for Mac OS - legacy application compatibility on Apple Computer's Darwin Kernel (derived from QTML authored for QuickTime).
• 1996 Created a company named C Innovation which makes the student information system called Zangle.
• 1997 C2B Technologies, Inc - Founder and CTO of company which developed market leading Internet comparison shopping engine, company was acquired in 1998 by Inktomi,^[4][5] which was later acquired by Yahoo^[6]
• 1998 Java 2D - key contributor to graphics library distributed by Sun Microsystems as part of its Java developer kits since 1998^[7],.^[8]

Education

Charlton received a BS in the disciplines of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE) from RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

References

• Who, Marquis (1997). Who's Who in the World 1997. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. ISBN 978-0-8379-1117-5.
• Who, Marquis (1999). Who's Who in America 1999: a-K. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. ISBN 978-0-8379-0192-3.
• Who, Marquis (1997). Who's Who in the Media and Communications 1998-99. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. ISBN 978-0-8379-3950-6.
• Who, Who's (1995). Who's Who in Finance and Industry 1996-1997. New York: Reed Reference Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8379-0330-9.
• Who, Marquis (1994). Who's Who in Science and Engineering. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. ISBN 978-0-8379-5752-4.