Charles M. "Chuck" Geschke (born 1939) is best known as the co-founder with John Warnock of Adobe Systems Inc. , the graphics and publishing software company, in 1982. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 11, 1939, Geschke attended Saint Ignatius High School and went on to earn a BA in classics and an MS in mathematics from Xavier University, as well as a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

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  • Charles M. "Chuck" Geschke (born 1939) is best known as the co-founder with John Warnock of Adobe Systems Inc. , the graphics and publishing software company, in 1982. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 11, 1939, Geschke attended Saint Ignatius High School and went on to earn a BA in classics and an MS in mathematics from Xavier University, as well as a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to co-founding Adobe, Geschke and Warnock worked at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Geschke had started there in the early 1970s. Geschke formed and headed PARC's Imaging Sciences Laboratory in 1978 or 1980. Unable to convince Xerox management of the commercial value of Warnock's InterPress graphics language for controlling printing, the two left Xerox to start Adobe. At their new company, they developed an equivalent technology, PostScript, from scratch, and brought it to market. On the morning of May 26, 1992, Geschke was kidnapped at gunpoint from the Adobe parking lot in Mountain View, California. He was held for four days before being recovered from a house in Hollister, California by the FBI. The two kidnappers were eventually sentenced to life terms in state prison. Geschke retired as president of Adobe in 2000, shortly before his partner Warnock left as CEO.
  • Charles M. "Chuck" Geschke - współzałożyciel w 1982 r. , razem z Johnem Warnockiem, firmy Adobe Systems. Geschke uzyskał stopień magistra matematyki w Xavier University oraz stopień doktora nauk komputerowych w Carnegie-Mellon University. Przed założeniem Adobe Geschke i Warnock pracowali w Xerox PARC - Geschke pracował tam od początku lat 70. , zakładając w 1978 r. (lub 1980) Imaging Sciences Laboratory in 1978 or 1980. Nie mogąc przekonać zarządu do swoich pomysłów dotyczących komercjalizacji graficznego języka sterowania drukiem, InterPress, obaj opuścili firmę i w 1982 r. założyli Adobe, rozwijając wkrótce ekwiwalentną technologię PostScript i wprowadzając ja na rynek. W 1992, Geschke został porwany dla okupu z parkingu Adobe i przez trzy dni przetrzymywany przez porywaczy, jednak zdołał sam uciec. W 2000 r. wycofał się z funkcji prezesa Adobe.
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  • Charles M. "Chuck" Geschke (born 1939) is best known as the co-founder with John Warnock of Adobe Systems Inc. , the graphics and publishing software company, in 1982. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 11, 1939, Geschke attended Saint Ignatius High School and went on to earn a BA in classics and an MS in mathematics from Xavier University, as well as a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
  • Charles M. "Chuck" Geschke - współzałożyciel w 1982 r. , razem z Johnem Warnockiem, firmy Adobe Systems. Geschke uzyskał stopień magistra matematyki w Xavier University oraz stopień doktora nauk komputerowych w Carnegie-Mellon University. Przed założeniem Adobe Geschke i Warnock pracowali w Xerox PARC - Geschke pracował tam od początku lat 70. , zakładając w 1978 r. (lub 1980) Imaging Sciences Laboratory in 1978 or 1980.
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