Bill Paxton (computer scientist)

William (Bill) Paxton is a computer scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[1] He is one of the founders of Adobe Systems and became one of the original designers and implementors of the PostScript page description language.

In 2021, Paxton was awarded the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize for developing the MESA software for computational stellar astrophysics.[2]

  1. ^ "Bill Paxton | KITP". www.kitp.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-14.
  2. ^ Tasoff, Harrison (15 March 2021). "An Accidental Astrophysicist". The Ucsb Current. UC Santa Barbara. Retrieved 31 May 2022.