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John Ousterhout

Also Known As John K. Ousterhout · John Kenneth Ousterhout
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John Ousterhout is an American computer scientist, long at Stanford University and previously the University of California, Berkeley, who created the Tcl scripting language and its companion Tk graphical toolkit. At Berkeley he also led the group that built the Sprite operating system and designed the first log-structured file system, an approach to writing file data sequentially that influenced later storage systems. He later founded and led Electric Cloud, a company built around software build acceleration, and co-developed the Raft consensus algorithm, designed as an easier to understand alternative to Paxos for keeping replicated systems in agreement.

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Birth Year
1954 1
Birth Date
1954-10-15 1
Nationality
American 1
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Grace Murray Hopper Award 2
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ACM Fellow 2
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IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award 2
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William O. Baker Award for Initiatives in Research 2
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ACM Software System Award 2
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Source Wikidata: Tcl
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1. Wikipedia: John Ousterhout
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John Kenneth Ousterhout (born October 15, 1954) is an American computer scientist.
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2. Wikidata: John Ousterhout
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Wikidata: Tcl
Invented By: Tcl, Wikidata Q5288 P178 (developer) claim -> Q92636 (John Ousterhout); computing atlas pioneer entity 281077, checked 2026-09-28View the Source
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