eXperimental Computing Facility
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Founded in 1986, the eXperimental Computing Facility (XCF) is an undergraduate computing-interest organization (in contrast to the Open Computing Facility and the Computer Science Undergraduate Association, which support most of the general-interest computing desires of the UC Berkeley campus). As such, the XCF stands as a focus for a small group of computer-scientists uniquely interested in computer science.
Members of the organization have been involved in projects such as NNTP, GTK+, GIMP, Gnutella, and Viola. Members of the XCF were instrumental in defending against the Morris Internet worm. [1]
[edit] Notable alumni
Notable alumni of the organization include: Gene Kan, Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis, Pei-Yuan Wei, Phil Lapsley
[edit] External links
- XCF web site
- Salon.com article on the history of the Experimental Computing Facility and its role in creating free software
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[edit] References
- ^ "eXperimental Computer Facility’s proud present and impressive past". Engineering News. 2003-02-10. http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/engnews/spring03/4S/XCF.html. Retrieved on 2009-02-13.
