Cynbe ru Taren

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Jeffrey Prothero (March 15, 1956 – November 16, 2016^{[citation needed]}), also known as Cynbe ru Taren, was a Canadian-born American computer programmer. He was the author of Citadel, one of the first^{[citation needed]} virtual world systems and also one of the longest-running^{[citation needed]} open source projects; the Digital Anatomist software, better known as the Visible Human Project;^[1] the original Pascal strek.pas Star Trek game program; the first Loglan parsers; and Mythryl, a production-grade port of SML/NJ. Prothero used the screenname "Cynbe ru Taren" online. Cynbe ru Taren is the name of a fictional alien in Poul Anderson's 1964 science fiction novel The Star Fox. In the novel, Cynbe ru Taren is an "Aleriona Intellect Master of the Garden of War, fleet admiral, and military strategist of the Grand Commission of Negotiators."^[2] He died on November 16, 2016, aged 60, from colorectal cancer.^{[where?][citation needed]}