Quentin Stafford-Fraser
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James Quentin Stafford-Fraser was instrumental in the creation of the Trojan room coffee pot: the first webcam. He wrote the XCoffee client program which allowed the state of the coffee pot to be displayed on a screen.
After leaving Haileybury, Quentin studied Computer Science at the University of Cambridge and became the first college Computer Officer in 1989 working for his old college, Gonville and Caius. Quentin is credited with operating the first web-server in the University of Cambridge in 1992 and working on the Brightboard Interactive Whiteboard project [1] at Xerox EuroPARC in Cambridge.
Quentin wrote the original VNC client (viewer) and server for the Windows operating system, while at the Olivetti Research Laboratory.
Quentin has founded or co-founded various companies and other organisations including:
- Newnham Research (now DisplayLink)
- Exbiblio
- The Ndiyo project
- Cambridge Visual Networks ('Camvine')
- Telemarq Ltd (of which he is currently CEO)
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- ^ Stafford-Fraser, Q. and Robinson, P., BrightBoard: A Video-Augmented Environment in CHI96: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems
