Adobe Co-founder John Warnock, Creator of Photoshop and PDF, Passes Away at 82
John Warnock, co-founder of software company Adobe, has passed away at the age of 82.
According to Bloomberg News on the 20th (local time), Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe, announced in an email to employees that Warnock died the day before. He paid tribute to the late, saying, "Interacting with John over the past 25 years has been a highlight of my career."
Warnock earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and philosophy, a master's degree in mathematics, and a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Utah, and then worked at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, IBM, and the University of Utah.
In 1982, together with Charles Geschke, a colleague from Xerox, he founded Adobe in San Jose, Silicon Valley, California, and became its CEO. After stepping down as CEO in 2000, he served as chairman of the board alongside Geschke until 2017.
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Adobe's first product was 'PostScript,' which is credited with ushering in the era of desktop PC publishing. Subsequently, the company released graphic solutions such as Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, video editing software Premiere Pro, Dreamweaver?a tool supporting the development of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), and Acrobat, a PDF document format and solution.
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