Paul Charlton (technologist)

Paul Charlton is a software and hardware consultant in Silicon Valley. He was a pioneer in developing freeware and open source computer programs. He was the founder of C2B Technologies.

Timeline of notable technological contributions

1985 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 System networks which pre-dated the existence of the World Wide Web^[1]^,.^[2]
1987 Myarc Disk Operating System (MDOS) - operating system for consumer oriented personal computer.^[3]
1987 Myarc 9640 Geneve - single-board consumer oriented personal computer.
1994 QuickTime - market leading multimedia presentation engine for Windows, Mac OS and other platforms.
1996 Carbon API for Mac OS - legacy application compatibility on Apple Computer's Darwin Kernel (derived from QTML authored for QuickTime).
1996 Created a company named C Innovation which makes the student information system called Zangle.
1997 C2B Technologies, Inc - Founder and CTO of company which developed market leading Internet comparison shopping engine, company was acquired in 1998 by Inktomi,^[4]^[5] which was later acquired by Yahoo^[6]
1998 Java 2D - key contributor to graphics library distributed by Sun Microsystems as part of its Java developer kits since 1998^[7]^,.^[8]

Charlton received a BS in the disciplines of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE) from RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

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^ "Fast-Term" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-12-26.
^ Albright, Ronald G. (1985). The orphan chronicles. Millers Graphics. ISBN 978-0-931831-01-0.
^ "The TI-99 Home Computer Encyclopedia: Timeline 99 - 1987". Retrieved 2008-12-26.
^ Kormblum, Janet (1 September 1998). "Inktomi to buy C2B". C/Net News. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014.
^ "Inktomi to Acquire C2B Technologies in $90 Million Deal". The New York Times. 2 September 1998.
^ "Company Overview of Inktomi Corporation". Business Week. 19 March 2003. Archived from the original on 12 January 2013.
^ "Java Developer Kit Source Code". Retrieved 2008-12-26.
^ "Java Developer Kit Source Code". Retrieved 2008-12-26.

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