Quentin Stafford-Fraser

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James Quentin Stafford-Fraser is a computer scientist and entrepreneur based in Cambridge, England. He was one of the team that created the first webcam: the Trojan room coffee pot: Quentin pointed a camera at the coffee pot and wrote the XCoffee client program which allowed the image of the pot to be displayed on a workstation screen. When web browsers gained the ability to display images, the system was modified to make the coffee pot images available over HTTP and thus became the first webcam.[1]

Quentin wrote the original VNC client (viewer) and server for the Windows operating system, while at the Olivetti Research Laboratory.[2]

Quentin has founded or co-founded various companies and other organisations including:

  • Cambridge Visual Networks ('Camvine')
  • Telemarq Ltd (of which he is currently CEO)

He is a regular public speaker and his work has attracted significant media coverage.[4]

Earlier history

Quentin was educated at Haileybury before studying Computer Science at the University of Cambridge and in 1989 became the first Cambridge college Computer Officer, at his old college, Gonville and Caius, before joining the Systems Research Group in the University's Computer Lab. Quentin is credited with operating the first web-server in the University of Cambridge, in 1992.

He created the Brightboard Interactive Whiteboard project [5] at Xerox EuroPARC in Cambridge, as part of his Ph.D thesis.[6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Trojan Room Coffee Pot resources at Cambridge University Computer Lab". 
  2. ↑ "Virtual Network Computing". IEEE Internet Computing 2 (1): 33–39. Jan/Feb 1998.  |coauthors= requires |author= (help)
  3. ↑ "Splitting the digital difference". The Economist (Technology Quarterly). Q3 2006. 
  4. ↑ "Talks and interviews". 
  5. ↑ "BrightBoard: A Video-Augmented Environment". CHI96: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in Computing Systems. 1996.  |coauthors= requires |author= (help)
  6. ↑ Stafford-Fraser, Quentin (April 1997). "Video-Augmented Environments". University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Technical Reports. 
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