Jim is now
working on the One Laptop Per
Child project which uses open
source systems for education on very inexpensive computers. He was
previously at HP's
Cambridge Research
Lab working on the X Window System with Keith Packard, both on
desktops and on embedded systems such as the HP
iPAQ, where he helped start the handhelds.org
project from which all Linux handheld and cellphone development stems,
and has also contributed to freedesktop.org
efforts.
Jim continues to serve on the X.org
Foundation board of directors and served until 1/2004 on the Gnome Foundation board of
directors.
Jim worked at W3C on loan from Compaq Computer Corporation's Industry Standards and Consortia group from 1995-1999. Jim is the editor of the HTTP/1.1 specification (now an IETF Draft Standard). Jim Gettys joined W3C in 1995 on secondment from Digital (now part of HP).
Jim is one of the principle authors of the X Window System, edited the HTTP/1.1 specification for the IETF, and and one of the authors of AF, a network transparent audio server system, Jim's interests and experience span large scale systems design, implementation and management, collaborative systems, teleconferencing and most areas of Web technology. He is interested in mobile desktop and handheld distributed computing.
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