Bill Paxton (computer scientist)
American computer scientist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William (Bill) Paxton is a computer scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[1] He is one of the founders of Adobe Systems and became one of the original designers and implementors of the PostScript page description language.
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For the actor, see Bill Paxton.
In 2021, Paxton was awarded the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize for developing the MESA software for computational stellar astrophysics.[2]