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Bill Stackhouse

Bill Stackhouse
Born
Wilton E. Stackhouse Jr.

(1947-10-09) October 9, 1947 (age 78)
Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
EducationSan Francisco State University (B.S. Computer Science, 1981)
OccupationsComputer scientist (retired), wheelchair tennis player
SpouseKaren Ann Fritts (m. 2018)
ChildrenRebecca Lynn Stackhouse
Parent(s)Wilton E. Stackhouse Sr. and Corrie Lee Sanford

Wilton E. Stackhouse Jr. (born 1947) is an American computer scientist and former wheelchair tennis player. He coauthored the 1986 paper A Blueprint for Business Architectures, one of the earliest publications outlining concepts that later evolved into multitier architecture in enterprise software design.

Early life and education

Stackhouse was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and grew up in Pensacola, Florida. He attended Alabama College and graduated from San Francisco State University in 1981 with a degree in Computer Science.

Career

Stackhouse began his software engineering career in 1969. He held technical positions at Burroughs Corporation, Bank of America, and Xerox, where his work included operating systems and distributed software frameworks. He was a member of the ANSI X3J9 Pascal Standards Committee and contributed to the IEEE Standard 770 X3.97-1983 Pascal Computer Programming Language.[1]

In the mid-1980s, Stackhouse founded StoneTablet Publishing, a developer tools company known for creating the Macintosh table management software StoneTable. The product was covered in independent trade publications. A 1997 MacTech review described StoneTable as "a flexible and powerful table editor for developers and technical writers."[2] Later updates to the software were noted in MacTech Newsbits (1999)[3] and MacWorld, which reported that StoneTable "beefs up Mac OS X support" in 2001.[4] StoneTable was also mentioned in documentation for competing software, citing its favorable MacTech review.[5]

He later worked for Qualcomm, developing desktop software for the OmniTRACS satellite communications system. From 2013 to 2017, Stackhouse served on the board of the Northwest Wheelchair Tennis Association.

Research and publications

Stackhouse coauthored A Blueprint for Business Architectures with Rudolf Strobl, published in Data Communications in April 1986.[6] The article described a layered model for enterprise information systems, separating user interface, business logic, and data management components—an approach that anticipated later multitier and client–server architectures.

He also coauthored the 1991 paper EIS/XAIT Project: An Object-Based Interoperability Framework for Heterogeneous Systems with Girish Pathak and Sandra Heiler, published in Computer Standards & Interfaces, exploring distributed object frameworks for enterprise software.[7]

Stackhouse later published Historical Foundations of Multitier Architecture (2025), a retrospective self-archived at the Internet Archive.[8]

Personal life

Stackhouse is married to Karen Ann Fritts. He is an Eagle Scout and Order of the Arrow member, an avid photographer, and a former competitive wheelchair tennis player, achieving a USTA ranking of 15th in the United States.

See also

References

  1. ^ IEEE Standard Pascal Computer Programming Language (Report). IEEE. 1983. doi:10.1109/IEEESTD.1983.87333.
  2. ^ Ringel, Edward (December 1997). "Tools of the Trade: StoneTable". MacTech. Vol. 13, no. 12.
  3. ^ Courtney, Jessica (February 1999). "Feb 99 Newsbits". MacTech. Vol. 15, no. 2.
  4. ^ Sellers, Dennis (June 4, 2001). "StoneTable beefs up Mac OS X support". MacWorld.
  5. ^ "Blugs Documentation (FAQ)" (PDF). Blugs.com.
  6. ^ Strobl, Rudolf; Stackhouse, Bill (April 1986). "A Blueprint for Business Architectures". Data Communications. 15 (3). CMP Publications: 151–164.
  7. ^ Girish Pathak; Bill Stackhouse; Sandra Heiler (1991). "EIS/XAIT Project: An Object-Based Interoperability Framework for Heterogeneous Systems". Computer Standards & Interfaces. 10 (2). Elsevier: 97–109. doi:10.1016/0920-5489(91)90040-7.
  8. ^ Bill Stackhouse (2025). Historical Foundations of Multitier Architecture (PDF) (Report). Internet Archive.

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