Warren Woodford

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Warren Woodford is a computer industry old-timer and the developer of MEPIS. He was involved in the test and rollout of technologies that are taken for granted today including T1 carrier, datamodems, electronic banking, and personal computers. Picking up in the 90s, some of his projects are described at http://www.mepis.org, for example:

He was a NeXT developer, where he created a multimedia information technology called TheLibrary that foresaw the integration of multimedia in documents and the creation of linked information libraries similar to what has evolved on the web. Later, this formed the basis for information systems he developed to enable healthcare organizations including Kaiser Permanente and Catholic Healthcare West to more easily comply with the documentation requirements of JCAHO and ISO9000 standards.

He helped develop a global commodities trading system for Phibro-Salomon using NeXT computers and object oriented technologies. This was one of the biggest corporate success stories in the life of NeXT Computers.

While a consultant at Kaleida Labs, he collaborated with Marc Canter on the development and porting of interactive titles into the Kaleida Media Player environment, and demonstrated the concept of environmentally aware animation sprites. Marc and Warren presented the UnDoMe title at TED5 as a demonstration of the potential and practicality of interactive title development in ScriptX.

Warren was a consultant to Sun Microsystems, working for Jonathan Schwartz, on the development of Java Foundation Classes, the precursor to JavaSoft Swing.

He developed the first reliable Java debugger and a distributed CORBA debugger for Visigenic, parts of which was incorporated into JBuilder after Borland purchased Visigenic.

His consulting company was responsible for developing innovative Java based multitier applications for Ernst & Young. One of these, Web Auditors Workstation, was the first application touted by Sun as the proof that Java was ready for corporate deployment. A variation of WebAWS was used for several years by Intel and AMD to conduct their monthly critical chip inventories.

Today, he focuses on developing MEPIS and building cross-platform applications for Linux and Mac OS, and even Microsoft Windows.