Jim Gettys | |
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 Jim Gettys atlinux.conf.au, January 2006. | |
| Born | (1953-10-15)October 15, 1953 (age 71) |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Occupation | Computer programmer |
Jim Gettys (born 15 October 1953) is an Americancomputer programmer.
Gettys worked atDEC's Cambridge Research Laboratory.
He is one of the original developers of theX Window System atMIT and worked on it again withX.Org, where he served on the board of directors.
Until January 2009,[1] he was the Vice President of Software at theOne Laptop per Child project,[2] working on the software for theOLPC XO-1.[3]
From 2009 through 2014, he worked atAlcatel-LucentBell Labs.
Gettys was the co-founder of the group investigatingbufferbloat and the effect it has on the performance of the Internet.[4] He was a core member of the group from 2010 to 2017, concluding with his publication of "The Blind Man and the Elephant",[5] calling for the wide adoption offair queuing andactive queue management techniques across the Internet, particularly RFC8290.[6]
He served on theGNOME foundation board of directors.
He worked at theWorld Wide Web Consortium (W3C)[7] and was the editor of theHTTP/1.1 specification in theInternet Engineering Task Force through draft standard.
Gettys helped establish the handhelds.org community, from which the development ofLinux onhandheld devices can be traced.
One of his main goals at OLPC was to review and overhaul much of standard Linux software, in order to make it run faster and consume less memory and power. In this context, he has pointed out a common fallacy among programmers today: that storing computed values in memory is preferable to recomputing those values later. This, he claims, is often false on current hardware, given fastCPUs and the long time it takes to recover from a potentialcache miss.[citation needed]
He holds aBSc degree fromMIT inEarth and Planetary Sciences (course 12 — EAPS).[8]
He won the 1997Internet Plumber of the Year award on behalf of the group who worked on HTTP/1.1.
Gettys is one of the keepers of the Flame (USENIX's 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award) on behalf of The X Window System Community at Large.
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