Jim Gettys is an Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs programmer . Until January 2009 [1] he was vice president of the One Laptop per Child software development project for OLPC XO-1 . [2] Gettys is one of the founders of the first versions of the X Window System . He later worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as part of the X.Org project, where he held a position among directors. Gettys has also been featured on the GNOME Foundation Leadership List. He worked for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) [3] and was the editor of the HTTP / 1.1 specification on the Internet Engineering Council . Jim contributed to the emergence of the handhelds.org community, where Linux began to develop as a platform for a variety of gadgets.
| Jim Gettys | |
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| A country | USA |
| Scientific field | programming |
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| Known as | HTTP specification editor /1.1 |
Gettys worked at the HP Research Laboratory in Cambridge . He received Internet Plumber of the Year in 1997 as a member of the HTTP / 1.1 development team. Gettys is one of the Keepers of the Flame ( USENIX 's 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award). He received this title for participating in the expansion of The X Window System Community.
One of the main achievements of Gettys in OLPC was writing and revising standards for Linux software, which made programs faster and less resource intensive. Jim Gettys promotes the reuse of variables in code.
During 2010, Gettys was a key member of the Bufferbloat research team , whose work influenced Internet performance. [four]
Notes
- The Big freedesktop.org Interview (Rayiner Hashem, OSNews , November 24, 2003)
- Interview about the One Laptops Per Child project, by LWN.net (June 2006): part I , part II .
- ↑ Gettys, Jim So long, and thanks for all the fish . Date of treatment February 1, 2012. Archived January 24, 2013.
- ↑ User: Jg (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment February 1, 2012. Archived January 24, 2013.
- ↑ Network Performance Effects of HTTP / 1.1, CSS1, and PNG . World Wide Web Consortium (June 24, 1997). Date of treatment January 14, 2010. Archived January 24, 2013.
- ↑ Gettys, Jim (May / June 2011), Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers in the Internet , vol. 15, IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE, p. 95–96, doi : 10.1109 / MIC.2011.56 , < http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/MIC.2011.56 > . Retrieved February 20, 2012. Archived October 12, 2012 on Wayback Machine
Links
- Jim Gettys' home page at Handhelds.org
- Jim Gettys' home page at the W3C
- jg's ramblings (Gettys' blog where bufferbloat was first exposed)
- bufferbloat.net where work on bufferbloat is taking place
- HP Labs Inventor Profile: Jim Gettys (January 2004)
- The X Window System, Version 11 (November, 1990)
- The (Re) Architecture of the X Window System (July, 2004)
- Network Performance Effects of HTTP / 1.1, CSS1, and PNG (June 1997)
- Jim Gettys , LinkedIn