Jeffrey Prothero (March 15, 1956–November 16, 2016) was an American computer programmer.
He was the author of Citadel, arguably the first virtual world system and one of the longest-running open source projects; the Digital Anatomist software, better known as the Visible Human Project; the original Pascal strek.pas Star Trek game program; the first Loglan parsers; and Mythryl, a production-grade port of SML/NJ.
Prothero used the screenname "Cynbe ru Taren" online.
Cynbe ru Taren is the name of a fictional alien in Poul Anderson's 1964 science fiction novel "The Star Fox".
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In the novel Cynbe ru Taren is an "Aleriona Intellect Master of the Garden of War, fleet admiral, and military strategist of the Grand Commission of Negotiators." He died on November 16, 2016 after a battle with colorectal cancer.