| Robert William Scheifler | |
| Birth Date: | 24 June 1954 |
| Birth Place: | Kirkwood, Missouri, U.S. |
Robert William Scheifler (born June 24, 1954) is an American computer scientist. He was born in Kirkwood, Missouri. He is most notable for leading the development of the X Window System from the project's inception in 1984 until the closure of the MIT X Consortium in 1996.[1] He laterbecame one of the architects of the Jini architecture at Sun Microsystems.[2]
Scheifler holds a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.