# Jef Poskanzer

> Jeffrey A. Poskanzer is a computer programmer. He was the first person to post a weekly FAQ to Usenet. He developed the portable pixmap file format and pbmplus to manipulate it. He has also worked on the team that ported A/UX. He has shared in two USENIX Lifetime Achievement Awards - in 1993 for Berkeley Unix, and in 1996 for the Software Tools Project.

*Computer programmer*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/jef-poskanzer

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Developer ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740))
- **Category:** Developers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1958
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 51.2 / 100
- **Momentum:** 7.9 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 6.4 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 30.8 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 50.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #171

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/jefposk (@jefposk)
- **WEBSITE**: http://acme.com/jef/

## Sources
- [Посканзер, Джеф](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%84)
- [جيف بوسكانزر](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%B1)
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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4373659)

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