Jim Whitehead (computer scientist)
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| Occupation | Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz |
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E. James Whitehead is Professor and Chair[1] of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.[2] He received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1989, and a PhD in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, in 2000.
Previously, he performed hard, real-time firmware development as a software engineer for Raytheon, 1989–1992. From 1996–2004, Jim Whitehead created and led the Internet Engineering Task Force working group on Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning,[3][4] and is considered the "father" of the WebDAV protocol.[citation needed] He is author on over 50 peer-reviewed articles on software engineering and hypertext systems, and seven Internet standards (RFC) documents.[2]
Jim Whitehead led the creation of the BS Computer Science: Computer Game Design degree program at UC Santa Cruz, the first game oriented degree program within the University of California system.[2] He is also working with the Expressive Intelligence Studio as an advisor.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ Jim Whitehead Page in UCSC CS people directory
- ^ a b c Curriculum Vitae, Jim Whitehead Home Page, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
- ^ J. Whitehead, G. Clemm, J. Reschke, Ed., Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV): Redirect Reference Resources, RFC 4437, The Internet Society, March 2006.
- ^ Jim Whitehead, WebDAV: Versatile Collaboration Multiprotocol, IEEE Internet Computing, Volume 9 , Issue 1, pages 66–74, January 2005.
- ^ EIS Home Page
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