Keith Packard

Keith Packard (born April 16, 1963) is a software developer, best known for his work on the X Window System.

He has been heavily involved in the development of X since the late 1980s as a member of the MIT X Consortium, XFree86 and the X.Org Foundation.

He worked at Tektronix, Inc. in Wilsonville, Oregon designing X terminals and Unix workstations from 1983 until 1988.

He then moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology X Consortium from 1988 to 1992, developing the X Window System reference implementation and standards as the senior member of a small team.

[8] Packard left HP Labs to join SiFive in July 2019, working on free software for RISC-V-based processors, among other tasks.

An interview with Packard (center) and Bdale Garbee at linux.conf.au 2014.