Jim Whitehead (computer scientist)

Jim Whitehead
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. 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]

References

  1. ^ Jim Whitehead Page in UCSC CS people directory
  2. ^ a b c Curriculum Vitae, Jim Whitehead Home Page, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
  3. ^ J. Whitehead, G. Clemm, J. Reschke, Ed., Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV): Redirect Reference Resources, RFC 4437, The Internet Society, March 2006.
  4. ^ Jim Whitehead, WebDAV: Versatile Collaboration Multiprotocol, IEEE Internet Computing, Volume 9 , Issue 1, pages 66–74, January 2005.
  5. ^ EIS Home Page