Larry Masinter

Current

• TAG member at W3C
• Principal Scientist at Adobe Systems

Past

• - at Internet Engineering Task Force
• Advisory Board member at W3C
• Internet Architecture Director at AT&T

• Principal Scientist at Xerox PARC

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Education

• Stanford University
• Rice University

Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• http://larry.masinter.net

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 2009 — Present (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 2000 — Present (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)

  1992 — 2008 (16 years)

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

• Advisory Board member

  W3C

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

  1998 — 2001 (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 1999 — October 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 1973 — October 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.

Additional Information

Larry Masinter’s Websites:

• http://larry.masinter.net

Larry Masinter’s Honors:

ACM Fellow
ACM Software System Award

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