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Founded in 1986, the eXperimental Computing Facility (XCF) is an undergraduate computing-interest organization at University of California, Berkeley. The "Experimental" description was given in contrast to the Open Computing Facility and the Computer Science Undergraduate Association, ^[1] which support most of the general-interest computing desires of the campus. As such, the XCF stands as a focus for a small group of computer-scientists uniquely interested in computer science.

Members of the organization have been involved in projects such as NNTP, ^[2] GTK+, ^{[2] [3]} GIMP, ^{[2] [3]} Gnutella, ^[2] and Viola. ^[2] Members of the XCF were instrumental in defending against the Morris Internet worm. ^{[2] [3]}

Notable alumni

Notable alumni of the organization include: Jonathan Blow, ^{[4] [5]} Gene Kan, ^[2] Spencer Kimball, ^[2] Peter Mattis, ^[2] Pei-Yuan Wei, ^[2] and Phil Lapsley. ^{[2] [3]}

References

External links

• Official website
• "Student Organization Website".
  • "Older XCF website". eXperimental Computing Facility, University of California at Berkeley. Archived from the original on 27 October 2010. Retrieved 29 March 2015.

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