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John Hobby and Oren Patashnik got their PhD from Stanford. Hobby is a student of Donald Knuth; Patashnik is also a student of Knuth, according to Wiki. However Prof. Chi-Chih Yao at Tsinghua (China) claims that Patashnik is one of his students. Maybe they are co-advisors :-)

Someone asked Leslie Lamport in an interview in 2000, "Why is there no high/same-quality WYSIWYG system available?" He answered, "The entrance barrier is too high. To have any chance of success, a system would have to do everything that TEX does. That makes it too much work for any individual. A company like Microsoft could do it; I presume they don't because the market is too small. I occasionally think of going over to the Dark Side and proposing to Microsoft that they hire me and put me in charge of a group to develop such a system." (Author's comment: he joined Microsoft in 2001)

Frank Mittelbach from Germany is kind of low profile, so that I can't find his homepage :-(

Photo	Name	Achievement
	Donald Knuth (Wiki) Prof., Stanford, 1968 Asso. Prof., CalTech, 1966 Asst. Prof., CalTech, 1963 PhD, CalTech, 1963 BS, MS, Case, 1960 Born, WI, USA, 1938	TeX, 1978 - 1989 METAFONT, 1978 - 1988 The Art of Computer Programming, 1968, 1969, 1973, 2005 Computers & Typesetting, 1986 Turing Award, 1974
	Leslie Lamport (Wiki) Microsoft, 2001 DEC, 1985 SRI, 1977 PhD, Brandeis, 1972 MA, Brandeis, 1963 BS, MIT, 1960 Born, USA, 1941	LaTeX, 1984 - 1991 BibTeX, 1985 LaTeX: A Document Preparation System, 1986 Fellow, National Academy of Engineering, 1991
	Frank Mittelbach (Interview) EDS, 1989 Gutenberg, 1980s	LaTeX, 1991 - The LaTeX Companion, 1993 The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 1997
	John Hobby Bell PhD, Stanford, 1985	MetaPost, 1989 - 1994 A User's manual for MetaPost, 1992
	Oren Patashnik (Wiki) Center for Communications Research, IDA PhD, Stanford, 1990 BS, Yale, 1976 Born, 1954	BibTeX, 1985