He received a
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in physics from
Yale University in 1975, and his
Ph.D. in computer science from
Carnegie Mellon University in 1980. Ousterhout received the
Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1987 for his work on
electronic design automation CAD systems for
very-large-scale integrated circuits. For the same work, he was inducted in 1994 as a
Fellow of the
Association for Computing Machinery. Ousterhout was elected a member of the
National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for improving our ability to program computers by raising the level of abstraction. In 1994, Ousterhout left Berkeley to join
Sun Microsystems Laboratories, which hired a team to join him in Tcl development. After several years at Sun, he left and co-founded Scriptics, Inc. (later renamed Ajuba Solutions) in January 1998 to provide professional Tcl development tools. Most of the Tcl team followed him from Sun. Ajuba was purchased by Interwoven in October 2000. He joined the faculty of Stanford University in 2008. ==Selected works==