[Obvious] Charles Gesik, co-founder of Adobe and a contributor to DTP innovation, dies



Adobe co-founder Charles Gesik said he founded the company with the vision of 'innovating the relationship between people and information by realizing a whole new way of publishing and producing graphics.' 2021 He died on April 16th (Friday). I was 81 years old.

Adobe --Adobe Co-Founder Dr. Geschke Passes at 81
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Dr. Charles M. Geschke
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https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/cc/en/leaders/pdfs/geschke.pdf





Gesiki was born on September 11, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio. He holds a bachelor's degree in classical studies and a master's degree in mathematics from Xavier University and taught mathematics at John Carroll University from 1963 to 1968.

Then, with the advice of William Wulf of the same year, he completed his doctoral course in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in 1972 and began working at the Palo Alto Research Center in Xerox in October 1972. Mr. Wulf is the developer of the programming language 'BLISS ' and co-authored ' The Design of a Optimizing Compiler ' with Mr. Gesiki in 1975.


Mr. Gesiki worked on the construction of mainframe computers and tools for the construction of workstations and Xerox Star at the Palo Alto Research Center, and in 1978 he conducted research on graphics, optics, image processing, etc. 'Imaging Sciences Laboratory (Image Science) Laboratory) ”was established in-house. At this time, Mr. Gesiki hired Mr. John Warnock .

The two developed Interpress , a page description language (PDL) that can be written in complex forms such as print, but they were unable to get the commercial value of Xerox management at the time, so they independently became independent. I made a company. This is ' Adobe '.

The two have evolved Interpress into 'Adobe Postscript .' Until then, graphic designers could only see the results in text unless they actually printed or used a print preview, but WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) prints what you see. Will be) realized. It has revolutionized DTP.

Mr. Geshiki, who became the CEO of Adobe from December 1986, encountered an incident in May 1992 when he was kidnapped by a gun in the parking lot of the company. He was released four days later and served as CEO until July 1994. The two suspects have been arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Adobe co-founder Warnock said, 'I never thought I had such a great, likable, and talented business partner. Life without Chuck is like a big hole. Anyone who knows him will agree. '

In addition, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said in an email to all employees that 'a big hole has opened in my heart,' like Mr. Warnock. 'I am grateful that I got to know Mr. Gesik and worked with him,' he said, and expressed that it is comforting that the 'best days of Adobe' that Mr. Gesik wanted are waiting for him.

The family name 'Geschke' is also written as 'Geschke' in Japan, but it is written as 'Geschke' according to Adobe's tweets and company profile.

Company Profile-Adobe Systems Incorporated
(PDF file) https://www.adobe.com/jp/aboutadobe/pdfs/CorpOverview_J.pdf

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