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Owen Taylor

1996 HERTZ FELLOW

MAKING HISTORY

Owen Taylor is a principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, a leading open-source software company, where he contributes to Linux graphics and display software. Taylor earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago before completing his Ph.D. in physics at Cornell University, where his fellowship began in 1996. He subsequently transitioned from physics research to open-source software development, becoming a major contributor to the GNOME desktop environment and the GTK widget toolkit that underlies much of the Linux graphical user interface ecosystem.

EDUCATION

Graduate Studies
Cornell University
Physics

Undergraduate Studies
University of Chicago

 

IMPACT STORY

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