Nathaniel Borenstein

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Nathaniel Borenstein (b. September 23, 1957) is one of the original designers of the MIME protocol for sending multimedia Internet electronic mail.

Currently Chief Open Standards Strategist and Distinguished Engineer at IBM, Borenstein was founder of NETPOS.COM and First Virtual Holdings, called "the first cyberbank" by the Smithsonian Institution. He received his B.A. in Computer Science and Religious Studies from Grinnell College, while he earned a M.S. and a Ph.D from Carnegie Mellon University. He also attended Deep Springs College, California (1975-76), Ohio State University (1974-75), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (1978-79) [1].

He is author of Programming As If People Mattered: Friendly Programs, Software Engineering, and Other Noble Delusions (Princeton University Press, 1994).

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  1. ^ Nathaniel S. Borenstein's CV

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