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Schmidt (BS 966, MS 1968, PhD 1971), who would later become known as "the man who brought Ethernet to the masses". Simonyi would later leave Microsoft to become the first repeat space tourist, blasting off on Russian Soyuz rockets to work at the International Space Station orbiting the earth.
The original Berkeley Software Distribution, commonly known as BSD Unix, was assembled in 1977 by Bill Joy (MS 1982) , then a graduate student in the computer science department.

Joy, who went on to co-found Sun Microsystems, also developed the original version of vi, while Ken Arnold (BA 1985) created Curses, which is a terminal control library for Unix-like systems, enabling the construction of text user interface (TUI) applications. Eric Allman (BS 1977, MS 1980) worked on SendMail, a Unix mail transfer agent which delivers 70% of the email in the world.
The XCF, an undergraduate research group located in Soda Hall, has been responsible for a number of notable software projects, including GTK+ (created by Peter Mattis, BS 1997), The GIMP (Spencer Kimball, BS 1996), and the initial diagnosis of the Morris worm .

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