Franklin David Boswell (born c. 1956) is a Canadian computer scientist who was awarded the J.W.
[1][2] Boswell earned his undergraduate and Masters in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
While he was a student and after he earned his masters in 1980, Boswell worked under J. Wesley Graham, a senior Computer Scientist at the University of Waterloo, who had broadly managed teams at Waterloo that developed several widely used computer language compilers.
[3] Boswell worked in compiler design at the University of Waterloo's Computer Systems Group until 1988, when he was one of the founders of Watcom.
[8] In 1999 Boswell was the President of LivePage when it merged or was acquired by Janna Systems, for $19 million.