Jim Waldo
{{short description|American computer scientist}}
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| field = Distributed computing
Privacy
| work_institution = Hampshire College
VI Corp
Pixel Computer
Apollo Computer
Sun Microsystems
VMware
Harvard University
| alma_mater = University of Utah
University of Massachusetts Amherst
|doctoral_advisor = Terence Parsons
|thesis_title = Truth-value gaps in natural language
|thesis_year = 1980
|thesis_url = https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_1/2124
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| known_for = Jini, Project Darkstar
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Jim Waldo is an American computer scientist and the Chief Technology Officer of Harvard University. He is the Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Technology and Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.{{cite web|title=Jim Waldo|url=https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/jwaldo|website=Berkman Klein Center|accessdate=3 March 2018|language=en}} Previously he was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where he was lead architect for Jini, a distributed programming system based on Java, and helped develop Project Darkstar.{{cite web|title=Artima Weblogs|url=https://www.artima.com/weblogs/index.jsp?blogger=waldo|website=www.artima.com|accessdate=3 March 2018}}{{cite web|last1=Drexler|first1=Michael|last2=Guth|first2=Rob|title=Sun radiant over Jini magic in mobile networks|url=https://www.javaworld.com/article/2076466/enterprise-java/sun-radiant-over-jini-magic-in-mobile-networks.html|website=JavaWorld|language=en|date=20 August 1999}} He was also involved in some of the early design and development of the Java programming language and environment.
Biography
Jim Waldo graduated from the University of Utah in 1973 with a BS in philosophy, in 1975 with an MA in linguistics, and in 1976 with an MA in philosophy.{{cite web|title=Jim Waldo|url=http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~waldo/|website=www.eecs.harvard.edu|accessdate=3 March 2018}} He then attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for his PhD in philosophy and graduated in 1980. After a year-long academic position at Hampshire College, he joined a startup company as a programmer. He moved to Apollo Computer in 1985 and stayed on when it was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 1989. While at HP, he led the design and development of the first object request broker and was instrumental in getting that technology incorporated into the first CORBA specification. He then moved to Sun Microsystems in 1992. He left Sun in 2010 and after a year at VMWare, he joined Harvard University where he was named CTO in 2011.{{cite web|title=SEAS Professor of the Practice Jim Waldo named University CTO|url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/seas-professor-of-the-practice-jim-waldo-named-university-cto/|website=Harvard Gazette|accessdate=3 March 2018|date=7 June 2011}}
Bibliography
- {{cite book|last1=Waldo|first1=Jim|title=Java: The Good Parts|date=2010|publisher=O'Reilly Media|isbn=978-0596803735|url=https://archive.org/details/javagoodparts00wald_0}}
- {{cite book|last1=Waldo|first1=James|last2=Lin|first2=Herbert S.|last3=Millett|first3=Lynette I.|title=Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age|date=2007|publisher=National Academies Press|location=Washington, D.C.|isbn=978-0309103923|pages=450}}
- {{cite book|last1=Arnold|first1=Ken|author1link=Ken Arnold|last2=O'Sullivan|first2=Bryan|last3=Scheifler|first3=Robert W.|author3link=Bob Scheifler|last4=Waldo|first4=Jim|last5=Wollrath|first5=Ann|title=The Jini Specification|date=1999|publisher=Addison-Wesley Professional|location=Reading, Mass.|isbn=978-0201616347|pages=[https://archive.org/details/jinitmspecificat00kena/page/400 400]|url=https://archive.org/details/jinitmspecificat00kena/page/400}}
- {{cite book|last1=Waldo|first1=Jim|title=The Evolution of C++: Language Design in the Marketplace of Ideas|date=1993|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge, Mass.|isbn=9780262731072|pages=[https://archive.org/details/evolutionofclang0000unse/page/291 291]|url=https://archive.org/details/evolutionofclang0000unse/page/291}}
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