Quentin Stafford-Fraser

Quentin Stafford-Fraser
NationalityBritish
OccupationComputer scientist
Known forTrojan room coffee pot
Websitequentinsf.com

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]

He is a regular public speaker and his work has attracted significant media coverage.[3]

Quentin is also a part-time Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge Computer Lab.[4] In 2013 he was a member of the winning team on Christmas University Challenge, representing Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.

The famous coffee pot
  1. ^ "Trojan Room Coffee Pot resources at Cambridge University Computer Lab".
  2. ^ Tristan Richardson; Quentin Stafford-Fraser; Kenneth R. Wood; Andy Hopper (January–February 1998). "Virtual Network Computing". IEEE Internet Computing. 2 (1): 33–39. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.17.5625. doi:10.1109/4236.656066.
  3. ^ "Talks and interviews".
  4. ^ "About Quentin – Quentin Stafford-Fraser".