Editing Quentin Stafford-Fraser

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'''James Quentin Stafford-Fraser''' is a computer scientist and entrepreneur based in Cambridge, England.  He was one of the team that created the first [[webcam]], the [[Trojan room coffee pot]]. Quentin pointed a camera at the coffee pot and wrote the [[XCoffee]] [[Client (computing)|client program]] which allowed the image of the pot to be displayed on a workstation screen. When web browsers gained the ability to display images, the system was modified to make the coffee pot images available over HTTP and thus became the first webcam.<ref>{{cite web|title=Trojan Room Coffee Pot resources at Cambridge University Computer Lab|url=http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/}}</ref>

Quentin wrote the original [[Virtual Network Computing|VNC]] client (viewer) and [[Server (computing)|server]] for the [[Windows (operating system)|Windows]] [[operating system]], while at the [[Olivetti Research Laboratory]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Virtual Network Computing|author1=Tristan Richardson |author2=Quentin Stafford-Fraser |author3=Kenneth R. Wood |author4=Andy Hopper |journal=IEEE Internet Computing|volume= 2|issue= 1|date=Jan–Feb 1998|pages=33–39|doi=10.1109/4236.656066|citeseerx=10.1.1.17.5625 }}</ref>

He is a regular public speaker and his work has attracted significant media coverage.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://quentinsf.com/talks/|title=Talks and interviews}}</ref>

Quentin is also a part-time Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge Computer Lab.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~qs101/|title=About Quentin – Quentin Stafford-Fraser}}</ref> In 2013 he was a member of the winning team on ''[[Christmas University Challenge]]'', representing Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.[[Image:Trojan Room coffee pot xcoffee.png|right|frame|The famous coffee pot]]

== Earlier history ==

Quentin was educated at [[Haileybury and Imperial Service College|Haileybury]] before studying Computer Science at the University of Cambridge and in 1989 became the first Cambridge college Computer Officer, at his old college, [[Gonville and Caius College]], 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.

He created the Brightboard [[Interactive whiteboard]] project<ref>{{cite conference|title=BrightBoard: A Video-Augmented Environment|author1=Stafford-Fraser, Q. |author2=Robinson, P. |name-list-style=amp |book-title=CHI96: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in Computing Systems|year=1996}}</ref> at Xerox EuroPARC in Cambridge, as part of his Ph.D. thesis.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Video-Augmented Environments|url=http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-419.html|last=Stafford-Fraser|first=Quentin|date=April 1997|journal=University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Technical Reports|doi=10.48456/tr-419 }}</ref>

== Companies founded ==
Quentin has founded or co-founded various companies and other organisations including:

* [[Newnham Research]] (now [[DisplayLink]])
* Exbiblio
* The [[Ndiyo]] project<ref>{{cite news|title=Splitting the digital difference|newspaper=The Economist|issue=Technology Quarterly|date=Third Quarter 2006|url=http://www.economist.com/node/7904089?story_id=7904089}}</ref>
* Telemarq Ltd (of which he is currently CEO)

==References==

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==External links ==
* [https://www.quentinsf.com Personal website]

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