Jim Gettys is a computer programmer. He is one of the original developers of the X Window System at MIT and works on it again with X.Org, where he serves on the board of directors. He previously served on the GNOME foundation board of directors. He worked at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is the editor of the HTTP/1.1 specification in the Internet Engineering Task Force. Jim helped establish the handhelds.org community, from which the development of Linux on handheld devices can be traced.

Gettys worked at HP Labs' Cambridge Research Laboratory. He is a member of the collegium of the Open Source Awards, and won the 1997 Internet Plumber of the Year award for his work on HTTP/1.1 on behalf of the group who worked on it. Gettys is one of the keepers of the Flame (USENIX's 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award) on behalf of The X Window System Community at Large.

Currently, he is at the One Laptop Per Child project working to create the laptop" target="_blank" >^*.

He holds an BS degree from MIT in Earth and Planetary Sciences (course 12 - EAPS).

References

• The Big freedesktop.org Interview (Rayiner Hashem, OSNews, 24 Nov 2003)

External links

• Jim Gettys' Home Page at Handhelds.org
• Jim Gettys' Home Page at the W3C
• jg's ramblings (Gettys' blog)
• HP Labs Inventor Profile: Jim Gettys (January 2004)
• The X Window System, Version 11 (November, 1990)
• The (Re)Architecture of the X Window System (July, 2004)
• Network Performance Effects of HTTP/1.1, CSS1, and PNG (June 1997)

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