Vaughan Pratt, Chairman and CTO
Vaughan Pratt founded Tiqit Computers in March 2000 with the goal of extending computing environment homogeneity down to handheld scale computing. During 1980-82, he led a project at Stanford performing the corresponding extension from minicomputers down to desktop scale computing. The project subsequently spun off as Sun Microsystems, for whom he designed the Sun logo and the Pixrect graphics system, with the latter remaining at the core of all Sun's graphics into the early 1990s. During 1972-80 while an MIT EECS professor, he served as founding president of Research and Consulting Inc. providing MIT faculty and their consulting clients with a uniform administrative interface. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Computer Science atStanford University recalled to active duty, where he spends a day a week advising Ph.D. and postdoctoral students working on speech recognition and understanding, wireless propagation and communication, and computational logic, and teaching a course a year. Vaughan's PhD in Computer
Science is from Stanford University.
