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Tim Prinzing
Senior Staff Engineer
Jackpot Project
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
901 San Antonio Rd
MS UMTV29-112
Palo Alto, CA 94303
USA
Email: timothy.prinzing@sun.com
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Tim has been mostly at Sun since 1994,
starting out at Sun Labs on a project building developer tools.
Following that, Tim briefly left Sun to work on the Fresco GUI toolkit, but
returned soon afterword to work on the JDK at JavaSoft. Tim introduced
lightweight components (not as light as he wanted them) to AWT, and
helped get the Swing project started. Tim then helped design Swing, wrote
the Swing text package, and lots of miscellaneous things including
an experimental skinable look-and-feel implementation. Tim helped
Amy Fowler get the Java Server Faces project started, and recently
returned to Sun Labs to work on the Jackpot project with
Michael Van De Vanter, Tom Ball, and James Gosling investigating tools
to improve Java developer productivity.
Prior to Sun, Tim worked at a number of start-ups on CAD and
EDA tools, distributed simulations, digital cartography, and other
tools with graphically rich user interfaces. In the early years
Tim was often seen with a soldering iron or wire-wrap gun, performing
nerdly activities like creating his own hard-disk controller for
his diskless PC and writing drivers for it, digital instrumentation
for a car, home automation experiments, etc. In Tim's hardware days
he discovered he enjoyed software even more than hardware when asked
to write the firmware for a hardware project he designed.
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