Quentin Stafford-Fraser

<h2 id="earlier-history">Earlier history</h2>
<p>Quentin was educated at <a href="/facts/Haileybury_and_Imperial_Service_College/EKshXjUW">Haileybury</a> before studying Computer Science at the University of Cambridge and in 1989 became the first Cambridge college Computer Officer, at his old college, <a href="/facts/Gonville_and_Caius_College/61gbInWw">Gonville and Caius College</a>, before joining the Systems Research Group in the university's Computer Lab.  Quentin is credited with operating the first web-server in the University of Cambridge, in 1992.
</p><p>He created the Brightboard <a href="/facts/Interactive_whiteboard/hGats95G">Interactive whiteboard</a> project<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> at Xerox EuroPARC in Cambridge, as part of his Ph.D. thesis.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a>
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<h2 id="companies-founded">Companies founded</h2>
<p>Quentin has founded or co-founded various companies and other organisations including:
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<ul><li><a href="/facts/Newnham_Research/Q23Lt3Mv">Newnham Research</a> (now <a href="/facts/DisplayLink/Q23Lt3Mv">DisplayLink</a>)</li>
<li>Exbiblio</li>
<li>The <a href="/facts/Ndiyo/nhT11rDe">Ndiyo</a> project<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li>
<li>Telemarq Ltd (of which he is currently CEO)</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.quentinsf.com">Personal website</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Trojan Room Coffee Pot resources at Cambridge University Computer Lab". <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/" target="_blank">http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Tristan Richardson; Quentin Stafford-Fraser; Kenneth R. Wood; Andy Hopper (January–February 1998). "Virtual Network Computing". IEEE Internet Computing. 2 (1): 33–39. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.17.5625. doi:10.1109/4236.656066. <a href="/wiki/CiteSeerX_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/CiteSeerX_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"Talks and interviews". <a href="https://quentinsf.com/talks/" target="_blank">https://quentinsf.com/talks/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>"About Quentin – Quentin Stafford-Fraser". <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~qs101/" target="_blank">http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~qs101/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Stafford-Fraser, Q. & Robinson, P. (1996). "BrightBoard: A Video-Augmented Environment". CHI96: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in Computing Systems. <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>Stafford-Fraser, Quentin (April 1997). "Video-Augmented Environments". University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Technical Reports. doi:10.48456/tr-419. <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-419.html" target="_blank">http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-419.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>"Splitting the digital difference". The Economist. No. Technology Quarterly. Third Quarter 2006. <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/7904089?story_id=7904089" target="_blank">http://www.economist.com/node/7904089?story_id=7904089</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Quentin Stafford-Fraser