Larry Masinter

Principal Scientist at Adobe Systems

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
Past
  • - at Internet Engineering Task Force
  • Advisory Board member at W3C
  • Internet Architecture Director at AT&T
Education
  • Stanford University
  • Rice University
Connections
419 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Larry Masinter’s Summary

My current focus is on web standards through W3C and IETF.

Until recently, my primary focus at Adobe was on metadata for compound objects and multimedia, including temporal metadata (describing video, audio), and the management of media metadata through the creative process into production and distribution. The architecture and design are delivered in the XMP support within Adobe Creative Suite 4.

In standards work, I've had a number of leadership roles producing valuable standards for Internet communication, In the IETF I was (co)author or editor of a number of RFCs, and was chair of the HTTP and URI working groups, In the W3C, I was a participant in the XHTML, XForms working groups, and was on the W3C advisory board; one focus there was the formation of the W3C Technical Architecture Group.

I'm interested in the general area of improving network-mediated human communication, including social networking, virtual worlds, messaging, and the underlying architecture that would allow diverse applications to interoperate securely.

In the 90s, I worked (at Xerox PARC) on document management, document processing systems and digital libraries. I led Xerox's participation in collaborative university research on those topics.

In the 70s and 80s, I developed programming tools in the Interlisp development environment, as well as the Interlisp language and its implementation. I had a leadership role in developing the Common Lisp programming language.

See http://larry.masinter.net for papers, talks, standards activities, and other information.

Larry Masinter’s Specialties:

Internet and web standards, network protocols, document formats, metadata, programming tools, W3C, IETF, HTML, HTTP, URI, XML, Lisp


Larry Masinter’s Experience

  • TAG member

    W3C

    (Non-Profit; Internet industry)

    January 2009Present (7 months)

    Elected member of Technical Architecture Group, see http://www.w3.org/News/2009#item2

  • Principal Scientist

    Adobe Systems

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

    November 2000Present (8 years 9 months)

    Architecture for product interoperability and content formats. Previously, manager and individual contributor in advanced technology development. Managed work on document representation, dynamic layout. Development of prototype system for long-term archiving and security. Forms technology.

  • -

    Internet Engineering Task Force

    (Computer Software industry)

    19922008 (16 years)

    Contributor, author, and working group chair (for HTTP and URI)

  • Advisory Board member

    W3C

    (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

    19982001 (3 years)

    Elected member of W3C Advisory Board, setting process policy for the World Wide Web Consortium, setting standards for the web.

  • Internet Architecture Director

    AT&T

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Telecommunications industry)

    December 1999October 2000 (11 months)

    Joined a group trying to bring coherent architecture to an organization determined to split into separate companies. Activities included standards strategy, review of platform development activities, oversight of wireless services group at Excite@Home.

  • Principal Scientist

    Xerox PARC

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; XRX; Computer Software industry)

    January 1973October 1999 (26 years 10 months)

    In the 90s, worked on document management, format conversion, Internet protocols and web standards, early work on web-based services, as technical project lead.

    In the 70s & 80s, worked on all parts of the Interlisp programming environment: debuggers, editors, compiler, microcode, windowing system, network protocols.


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Larry Masinter’s Honors:

ACM Fellow
ACM Software System Award


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