Robert Carr (programmer)
Robert Carr (born 1956 or 1957) is credited as the architect of GO Corporation's PenPoint OS. He was profiled in the book Programmers at Work (ISBN 0-914845-71-3), where he was credited as the author of Framework.
Robert Carr is mostly known for being the inventor of the Framework integrated office suite.
- Robert Carr holds a B.S. and a M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Stanford University.
- From 1978 - At Xerox PARC, Robert Carr developed integrated applications software for the Alto
- Ashton-Tate's chief scientist after they acquired his software startup in 1985, three years after Robert's invention of an integrated PC software program called Framework.
- Robert Carr is the two-time winner of PC Magazine's Technical Excellence Award for both Framework and PenPoint.
- 1987 - Robert Carr co-founded the communications startup Go Corporation, where he led all software development including the PenPoint operating system. He is the co-inventor and holder of two patents on pen-based computing and object-oriented operating systems.
- Robert Carr has been the vice President of the AutoCAD Market Group at Autodesk, Inc.
- 1997-2003, Robert Carr was Managing Director at Sofinnova Ventures where he was one of five partners managing $550 million in early stage high tech venture capital funds.
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