John Walker

John Walker is the name of several people mentioned in Wikipedia:

• Inventer of the friction match, in 1827, see John Walker (inventor).
• One of the designers of AutoCAD, see John Walker (programmer).
• A middle distance runner, winner of the Olympic Games 1500m in 1976. See John Walker (runner).
• The name preferred by American John Phillip Walker Lindh, on trial for being a member of the Taliban.
• A British painter nominated for the Turner Prize in 1985. See John Walker (painter).
• An early American politician, John Walker (politician), member of Continental Congress and US Senator.
• A Soviet spy, John Anthony Walker, active during the Cold War.
• Stage name of John Maus, a member of the 1960s singing group, the Walker Brothers.
• One of the Birmingham Six.

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John Walker (inventor)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

John Walker was an an English chemist, who in 1826 accidentally invented the friction match by mixing potash and antimony.

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John Walker (painter)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

John Walker (born 1939) is a British painter and printmaker.

Walker studied in Birmingham. Some of his early work was inspired by abstract expressionism and post-painterly abstraction, and often combined apparetly three-dimensional shapes with "flatter" elements. These pieces are usually rendered in acrylic paint.

Around the early 1970s, Walker made a series of large Blackboard Pieces using chalk and the Juggernaut works which also use dry pigment. From the late 1970s his work makes allusions to earlier painters, such as Francisco Goya, Edouard Manet and Henri Matisse, either through the quoting of a pictorial motif, or the use of a partcular technique. From around this time he began to use oil paint more.

After spending some time in Australia, Walker got a job at the Victoria College of the Arts in Melbourne. He produced the Oceania series around this time which incorporates elements of native Oceanic art.

Walker was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1985.

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John Walker (programmer)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

John Walker is the founder of the CAD software company Autodesk.

Before Autodesk, John founded a hardware integration manufacturing company called Marin Chip. Among other things, Marin Chip pioneered the translation of numerous computer language compilers to Intel platforms.

Some say that John's efforts "propelled" Microsoft to dominance, however this is contested. At the time, there was a "right" way to do things like chip design, board fabrication, and software integration and John was a big part of that - without personally buying into Wintel as some ultimate solution.

External links

• Microsoft at Apogee