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Jim Gettys
Jim Gettys (born 15 October 1953) is an American computer programmer.
Gettys worked at DEC's Cambridge Research Laboratory.
He is one of the original developers of the X Window System at MIT and worked on it again with X.Org, where he served on the board of directors.
Until January 2009, he was the Vice President of Software at the One Laptop per Child project, working on the software for the OLPC XO-1.
From 2009 through 2014, he worked at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs.
Gettys was the co-founder of the group investigating bufferbloat and the effect it has on the performance of the Internet. He was a core member of the group from 2010 to 2017, concluding with his publication of "The Blind Man and the Elephant", calling for the wide adoption of fair queuing and active queue management techniques across the Internet, particularly RFC8290.
He served on the GNOME foundation board of directors.
He worked at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and was the editor of the HTTP/1.1 specification in the Internet Engineering Task Force through draft standard.
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Jim Gettys
Jim Gettys (born 15 October 1953) is an American computer programmer.
Gettys worked at DEC's Cambridge Research Laboratory.
He is one of the original developers of the X Window System at MIT and worked on it again with X.Org, where he served on the board of directors.
Until January 2009, he was the Vice President of Software at the One Laptop per Child project, working on the software for the OLPC XO-1.
From 2009 through 2014, he worked at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs.
Gettys was the co-founder of the group investigating bufferbloat and the effect it has on the performance of the Internet. He was a core member of the group from 2010 to 2017, concluding with his publication of "The Blind Man and the Elephant", calling for the wide adoption of fair queuing and active queue management techniques across the Internet, particularly RFC8290.
He served on the GNOME foundation board of directors.
He worked at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and was the editor of the HTTP/1.1 specification in the Internet Engineering Task Force through draft standard.
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