Quentin Stafford-Fraser | |
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| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Computer scientist |
| Known for | Trojan room coffee pot |
| Website | quentinsf.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.
- ^ "Trojan Room Coffee Pot resources at Cambridge University Computer Lab".
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Talks and interviews".
- ^ "About Quentin – Quentin Stafford-Fraser".