Paul Charlton

Paul Charlton is a software and hardware consultant in Silicon Valley who was a pioneer in developing freeware and open source computer programs and was the founder of C2B Technologies. His timeline of notable technological contributions begins in 1985 with 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 networks that pre-dated the World Wide Web. In 1987 he worked on the Myarc Disk Operating System, an operating system for a consumer-oriented personal computer, and on the Myarc 9640 Geneve single-board personal computer. In 1994 he worked on QuickTime, a multimedia presentation engine for Windows, Mac OS and other platforms, in 1996 on the Carbon API for Mac OS, and in 1998 as a key contributor to the Java 2D graphics library. In 1997 he was founder and chief technology officer of C2B Technologies, a company that developed an Internet comparison shopping engine and was acquired in 1998 by Inktomi. He received a BS in electrical, computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.