Larry Masinter

Principal Scientist at Adobe Systems

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Principal Scientist at Adobe Systems
Past
  • Member, Advisory Board at W3C
  • Internet Architecture Director at AT&T
  • Principal Scientist at Xerox PARC
Education
  • Stanford University
  • Rice University
Connections
351 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Larry Masinter’s Summary

I've been at Adobe since 2000 in various research and advanced technology areas. Lately I'm working on metadata and workflow, as well as development tools. I've also done work in document and content technologies, including long-term archiving and security, and forms design.

I've been involved in a number of Internet standards efforts, as (co)author or editor of a number of RFCs and as chair of the HTTP and URI working groups in IETF and also worked on some W3C standards.

In the 90s, I worked (at Xerox PARC) on document management, document processing systems and digital libraries.

In the 70s and 80s, I worked on Lisp -- the language and development tools for Interlisp and Common Lisp, used for applications in Artificial Intelligence.

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


Larry Masinter’s Experience

  • Principal Scientist

    Adobe Systems

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

    November 2000Present (7 years 7 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.

  • Member, Advisory Board

    W3C

    (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Computer Software 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 Groups:

IETF, W3C, ACM, IEEE Computer

Larry Masinter’s Honors:

ACM Fellow
ACM Software System Award


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