Brian Reid (computer scientist)
<p>Oct 20, 2009 10:13 PM
 
claims to have founded Adobe; (perhaps Brian's work is what was commercialized there)
  but I see Adobe was actually founded by John Warnock and Chalres Geschke from Xerox Parc.
they founded it to sell the PostScript page descr language.
Apple lic. it in 1985.
 
Brian developed Scribe....  his 1980 PhD  dissertation.  got  ACM  Grace Hopper award for it.
 
Note: my 1981 PhD dissertation was set in SCRIBE:  probably the second dissert. to use it.
 
was grad student at CMU.  asst prof at Stfd from 1980 to  1987.  He and colleagues blt the first Cisco router.
 
did Alta Vista.  alt. hierarchy in usenet.
 
Brian was denied tenure by Stfd.</p>