Jim Gettys
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Jim Gettys in January 2006 |
Jim Gettys is a
computer programmer. He is one of the original developers of the
X Window System at
MIT and works on it again with
X.Org, where he serves on the board of directors. He previously served on the
GNOME foundation board of directors. He worked at the
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is the editor of the
HTTP/1.1 specification in the
Internet Engineering Task Force. Jim helped establish the handhelds.org community, from which the development of Linux on handheld devices can be traced.
Gettys worked at HP Labs' Cambridge Research Laboratory. He is a member of the collegium of the Open Source Awards, and won the 1997 Internet Plumber of the Year award for his work on HTTP/1.1 on behalf of the group who worked on it. Gettys is one of the keepers of the Flame (USENIX's 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award) on behalf of The X Window System Community at Large.
Currently, he is at the
One Laptop Per Child project working to create the
$100 laptop.
He holds an
BS degree from
MIT in Earth and Planetary Sciences (course 12 - EAPS).
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The Big freedesktop.org Interview (Rayiner Hashem,
OSNews, 24 Nov 2003)
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Jim Gettys' Home Page at
Handhelds.org*
Jim Gettys' Home Page at the
W3C*
jg's ramblings (Gettys'
blog)
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HP Labs Inventor Profile: Jim Gettys (January 2004)
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The X Window System, Version 11 (November, 1990)
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The (Re)Architecture of the X Window System (July, 2004)
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Network Performance Effects of HTTP/1.1, CSS1, and PNG (June 1997)
