John Warnock died Sunday, reported . The company he founded 40 years earlier with Charles Geschke did not disclose the cause of death. He died surrounded by his family, leaving behind his wife, graphic designer Marva Warnock, who designed the Adobe logo, and three children.
Adobe founder John Warnock is dead
“Warnock was one of the greatest inventors of our generation who had a significant impact on the way we communicate through words, images and videos,” Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen wrote in an email announcing John Warnock’s death. “My interactions with John over the past 25 years have been the highlight of my professional career,” added Narayen.
John Warnock founded Adobe with Charles Geschke in 1982 and served as president of the company until 2000. After resigning, he remained a member of the company’s board of directors until 2017. He died two years. They met while working at a Xerox research center in California. Together, Geschke and Warnock decided to leave the company to found Adobe, which quickly became a leading player in the computer software market.
Their first product was the Adobe PostScript programming language. In 2009, the president awarded Geschke and Warnock with National Technology Medals. John Warnock earned the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Utah, and a PhD in electrical engineering. One of the typefaces at Adobe was named after him.
Source: Gazeta
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