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Keith Packard was born on 16 April, 1963 in United States, is an American software developer (born 1963). Discover Keith Packard's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

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Occupation Programmer
Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 16 April 1963
Birthday 16 April
Birthplace United States
Nationality United States

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1963

Keith Packard (born April 16, 1963) is a software developer, best known for his work on the X Window System.

1980

Packard is responsible for many X extensions and technical papers on X. He has been heavily involved in the development of X since the late 1980s as a member of the MIT X Consortium, XFree86 and the X.Org Foundation.

1983

He worked at Tektronix, Inc. in Wilsonville, Oregon designing X terminals and Unix workstations from 1983 until 1988.

1986

Packard gained a BA in mathematics from Reed College, Oregon in 1986.

1988

He then moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology X Consortium from 1988 to 1992, developing the X Window System reference implementation and standards as the senior member of a small team.

He was responsible for X releases at this time.

1992

In 1992 he returned to Portland, Oregon to work for Network Computing Devices on X terminals and computer graphics.

1999

From 1999 he worked for SuSE from his home in Portland, Oregon on the XFree86 implementation of X. He worked at the Cambridge Research Labs of Compaq (and then Hewlett-Packard) from 2001 until 2005 when the lab closed down.

2003

In 2003 he was ejected from XFree86.

This led to the formation of the successful X.Org Server fork.

He is now project lead on the X.org project, the official reference implementation of the X Window System.

2004

Packard became a Debian Developer in 2004, maintaining font-config (as well as being the upstream maintainer) and other packages.

2006

Packard began working for Intel in August 2006.

2011

In 2011, O'Reilly awarded an open source award to Packard, as "the person behind most of the improvements made on the open source desktop in the last ten years at least."

He is portrayed as one of the Faces of Open Source.

2013

Packard joined Debian's Technical committee in November 2013.

2015

Packard started working at Hewlett-Packard's HP Labs in January 2015.

2017

Packard started consulting for Valve in March 2017.

2019

Packard left HP Labs to join SiFive in July 2019, working on free software for RISC-V-based processors, among other tasks.

Packard joined Amazon in May 2021.

Keith is a radio ham with callsign K7WQ.

He is on the board of directors of Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC).