Robert W. Scheifler (born 1954) is a computer scientist. 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. He later became one of the architects of the Jini architecture at Sun Microsystems.

Scheifler gained a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

1954 births | Living people | X Window System | Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni