Founded in 1986, the eXperimental Computing Facility (XCF) is an undergraduate computing-interest organization at
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
. The "Experimental" description was given in contrast to the
Open Computing Facility and the
Computer Science Undergraduate Association, which support most of the general-interest computing desires of the campus. As such, the XCF stands as a focus for a small group of computer-scientists uniquely interested in computer science.
Members of the organization have been involved in projects such as
NNTP,
[ Article on the history of the Experimental Computing Facility and its role in creating free software.] GTK+
GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit and GTK+) is a free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, allowing both free and prop ...
,
GIMP
GIMP ( ; GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation (retouching) and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized ...
,
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and
Viola
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Members of the XCF were instrumental in defending against the
Morris Internet worm.
Notable alumni
Notable alumni of the organization include:
Jonathan Blow,
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,
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Pei-Yuan Wei
Pei-Yuan Wei () is a Taiwanese-American businessman who created ViolaWWW, the first popular graphical web browser.
Career
Pei-Yuan Wei was born in Pingtung County, Taiwan. He graduated from Berkeley High School in 1986. He received his bache ...
,
and
Phil Lapsley.
References
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University of California, Berkeley
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