Quentin Stafford-Fraser

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James Quentin Stafford-Fraser was instrumental in the creation of the Trojan room coffee pot: the first webcam. He wrote the XCoffee client program which allowed the state of the coffee pot to be displayed on a screen.

Quentin studied Computer Science at the University of Cambridge and became the first college Computer Officer in 1989 working for Gonville and Caius College. Quentin is credited with operating the first web-server in the University of Cambridge in 1992 and working on the Interactive Whiteboard project at Xerox EuroPARC in Cambridge.

Quentin wrote the original VNC client (viewer) and server for the Windows operating system, while at the Olivetti Research Laboratory.

More recently, he was a co-founder of Newnham Research (now DisplayLink) and Exbiblio. Quentin is a co-founder of the Ndiyo project and is currently its managing director.