Charles P. Thacker
* February 26, 1943, Pasadena, California, USA
✝ June 12, 2017, Palo Alto, California, USA
ACM A.M. Turing Award - 2009
For the pioneering design and realization of the first modern personal computer – the Alto at Xerox PARC – and seminal inventions and contributions to local area networks (including the Ethernet), multiprocessor workstations, snooping cache coherence protocols, and tablet personal computers.