Paul Trevithick
Paul Byers Trevithick (born 1959, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American inventor, engineer and entrepreneur.
Trevithick is a co-founder of Azigo, and is currently its CTO.[1] He initiated and is the technical leader of the work that is now the Eclipse Foundation's Higgins project.[2] Supporting this effort, he also co-founded SocialPhysics.org, the IdentityGang.org (now part of Identity Commons), Identity Schemas. In 2008 Trevithick founded the Information Card Foundation and currently serves as its chair. In 2009 he co-founded and was formerly a co-chair[3] of the Kantara Universal Login User Experience Working Group. Trevithick is a member of the Kantara Leadership Council and a steward of Identity Commons.
Since 2003, Trevithick's work has focused on creating open source identity infrastructure that give people more control, convenience, and privacy with respect to their digital identities and social networks on the internet. A key focus has been the development of personal data stores and browser-integrated and mobile active client software sometimes called "digital wallets."
He co-authored the paper Identity and Resilience[4] that was one of the 100 papers cited as informing the 2009 White House CyberPolicy Review.
In 2006 Trevithick created the concept and led the development of the ELICIT platform, an online game used to support experimentation focused on information, cognitive, and social domain phenomena. ELICIT was sponsored by the U.S. DoD (OASD/NII) Command and Control Research Program (CCRP)[5]
Before Azigo, Trevithick was president of Bitstream Inc.. He was CEO and co-founder in 1985 of Archetype, Inc. In 1981, he co-founded Lightspeed Computers. Trevithick has participated W3C, PODI, OASIS, and ITU-T standards efforts. He was granted the Seybold Industry Vision award in 1999. He was a research assistant at the MIT Media Lab in 1981-1982, and graduated from MIT with an EECS in 1981
He has four children: Matthew, Harlan, Mila and Elena. Trevithick's ancestry is Cornish. The name, meaning "Budic's homestead" in the Cornish language,[6] is shared by Richard Trevithick who was inventor of steam locomotion, by rail and by road, the screw propeller and high pressure steam.
Paul blogs at InContext
[edit] References
- ^ Azigo website
- ^ See Higgins current team
- ^ See ULX home page
- ^ See CyberReview documents
- ^ See CCRP
- ^ White, G. Pawley, A Handbook of Cornish Surnames.
