Software Architect, Standards Maven, and Entrepreneur
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Founder at Ångströ.com
- Volunteer Administrator at microformats.org
- President at 4K Associates
- Past
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- Co-Founder at KnowNow, Inc.
- Director at CommerceNet Labs
- Internet Architect at MCI
- Technical Staff at World Wide Web Consortium
- Education
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- University of California, Irvine
- California Institute of Technology
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Rohit Khare’s Summary
Dr. Rohit Khare is an award-winning researcher in the fields of Internet protocols and decentralized systems. He founded KnowNow in 2000 and previously worked on Internet standards development at MCI's Internet Architecture Group and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He founded 4K Associates and edited the World Wide Web Journal (W3J) for O'Reilly & Associates. He received his Ph.D. in Software Engineering from U.C. Irvine in 2003.
Rohit Khare’s Specialties:
connecting people, hacking prototypes, organizing events and forums
Rohit Khare’s Experience
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Founder
Ångströ.com
(Privately Held; Computer Hardware industry)
September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Ångströ helps deliver precisely the information you wanted -- just news about the right person, just alerts about the right company, even just photos of the your closest friends. We're experimenting with several new products around our text-analysis and relationship-analysis algorthms that bring "publish/subscribe" event notifications to a much broader market.
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Volunteer Administrator
microformats.org
(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)
June 2005 — Present (4 years 2 months)
I helped launch the microformats.org community site at Supernova 2005, with sponsorship from CommerceNet and other organizations. I am currently the primary legal and organizational contact for the microformats community.
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President
4K Associates
(Computer Software industry)
September 1996 — Present (12 years 11 months)
Founded and led a “Standards Strategy Consulting” practice that provided training and advice to major corporations (such as Sun Microsystems, Canon, McKinsey & Associates, and Apple Computer) and startups (Teledesic, Jabber.com, and Endeavors). We published an influential study that was the first to criticize Wireless Application Protocol (WAP 1.0) by championing open Web standards in its place. Wrote for IEEE Internet Computing from 1997-2000, as a columnist on the history of Internet protocol design.
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Co-Founder
KnowNow, Inc.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
November 1999 — May 2008 (8 years 7 months)
Founding CEO of a startup based on my graduate research. Raised angel funding, initial customers, developed patented technology, and Series A financing from Kleiner, Perkins and Palomar Ventures. Later, as CTO and Director helped develop KnowNow's position as a leader in the Real-Time Enterprise marketplace.
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Director
CommerceNet Labs
(Computer Software industry)
February 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 8 months)
Helped revitalize a 15-year old consortium dedicated to advancing commercial use of the Internet by creating an R&D-focused innovation strategy around the theme of "decentralization": How can we build software that works the way society works (without central control)? Recruited researchers and interns into areas as diverse as prediction markets and personalization, annotation and advertising. Helped drive our investments in Newroo (now MySpace News), Powerset (now Microsoft), PatientsLikeMe, and Gigalogix.
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Internet Architect
MCI
(Public Company; MCIP; Telecommunications industry)
May 1997 — September 1998 (1 year 5 months)
Worked for John C. Klensin and Vint Cerf on emerging web standards and patented a system for direct and delegated parental and family control of Web access.
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Technical Staff
World Wide Web Consortium
(Non-Profit; Internet industry)
April 1995 — May 1996 (1 year 2 months)
Security maven in the Technology & Society Area, Editor of O'Reilly's Web Journal (W3J), communications team. Founded W3C's security review board, liason with the Financial Services Technical Consortium (FSTC), and worked on XML, RDF, and the Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.
Rohit Khare’s Education
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University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. , Informatics , 1998 — 2003
Co-organized the Institute for Software Research (ISR) Workshops on Internet-Scale Event Notification (WISEN '98) and Internet-Scale Technology (TWIST '99).
- Activities and Societies:
- Prof. Richard N. Taylor's Hyperware research team helped create the Apache web server and the Apache Software Foundation, the WebDAV authoring protocol for HTTP, and the REST family of architectural styles for Web application development.
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California Institute of Technology
BS (Hons) , Engg. & Applied Science, Economics , 1991 — 1995
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) in modern American literature, graph theory, and parallel programming.
- Activities and Societies:
- co-founded the Entrepreneurship Club, campus leadership development at the Industrial Relations Center (IRC), ran Caltech and JPL Users of NeXTstep (CaJUN)
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Rohit Khare’s Interests:
Entrepreneurship, Graphic Design, Aviation
Rohit Khare’s Groups:
PCForum2006, World Wide Web Conference Program Committee (multiple years from 1995-2007)
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Rohit Khare’s Honors:
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (ICSE 2004)
ACM Distinguished Dissertation Nominee (UC Irvine)
Rohit Khare’s Contact Settings
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