Paul Trevithick

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Paul Byers Trevithick (born August 7, 1959, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American inventor, engineer and entrepreneur.

Trevithick is a co-founder, with John Clippinger, of Parity Communications and has been its CEO/CTO since 2003. He initiated and is the technical leader of the work that is now the Eclipse Foundation's Higgins project. Supporting this effort, he also co-founded SocialPhysics.org, IdentityGang.org and IdentitySchemas.org.

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. Building on Microsoft's CardSpace Information Card metaphor, Trevithick has put forward the concept of protocol- and platform-independent i-cards as the common user metaphor for identity interactions. He has also recently been developing the notion of the "projection" and synchronization of a person's identity on the web in contrast to traditional notions of authentication.

Before Parity, Trevithick was president of Bitstream. He was CEO and co-founder in 1985 of Archetype, Inc. In 1981, he co-founded Lightspeed Computers with Nathan Felde. Trevithick has participated W3C, PODI, OASIS, and ITU-T standards efforts.^[clarify] He was granted the Seybold Industry Vision award in 1999. He was a research assistant at the MIT Media Lab in 1981-82, and graduated from MIT with an EECS in 1981.