Aug 2011 – May 2017 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Sunnyvale, California

• Hacking ocean-going robots and housing their data in a cloud.

Mar 2011 – Aug 2011 · 5 mos

• Free-floating curmudgeon

Jan 2003 – May 2017 · 14 yrs 4 mos

• Member of the board of directors.

Jan 1999 – Jan 2002 · 3 yrs · Mountain View, CA

• Research on semantically driven software development tools. Produced the Real
• Time Specification for Java. Built the Sun Labs document archive and legal
• clearance system.

Jan 1995 – Jan 1999 · 4 yrs

• Technical and business guidance of the Java efforts at Sun. Duties were fairly
• evenly split between business strategy, technical review and public presentations
• & evangelization.
• 1994! Lead Architect, LiveOak project, Sun Labs.
• Leading the engineering team in the application of FirstPerson technology to the
• internet. This was launched as the HotJava browser and Java programming
• language.

Jan 1992 – Jan 1994 · 2 yrs

• Lead design team to produce software for the consumer electronics market,
• particularly focused on the set-top and interactive television solutions. Effort
• included developing a runtime for set-tops and content development and
• preparation tools.

Jan 1992 – Jan 1994 · 2 yrs

• Did general software engineering, including the design and implementation of the Oak programming language, which was eventually renamed to Java.

Jan 1991 – Jan 1992 · 1 yr

• Investigated software requirements, designed, implemented and demonstrated
• prototype of a consumer electronics software platform. Oversaw all software
• development including the guidance of a 12 person team. Personally implemented
• a compiler for a safe, multi-threaded, distributed, object-oriented programming
• language (related to C++) named Oak. Very positive customer response lead to
• the formation

Jan 1984 – Apr 2010 · 26 yrs 3 mos

• Oversaw the developing engineering of later versions of Java; lots of public appearances and presentations to customers.

Jan 1984 – Jan 2010 · 26 yrs

• NeWS window System; assorted graphics rendering routines; then Java...

Jan 1984 – Jan 1989 · 5 yrs

• Designed and implemented the Networked Extensible Window System (NeWS), a
• distributed window system based on PostScript. The PostScript language was
• used as the basis for interprocess communication, allowing computation to
• migrate from the client to the server. This included writing a complete PostScript
• clone and guiding the Folio hinted font scaling technology. The combination of the
• PostScript clone and the font scaling technology enabled Sun to create software
• to drive inexpensive printers using the CPU power of the desktop, thus instigating
• suns printing business.

Jan 1983 – Aug 1984 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Worked on loan to the CMU/ITC project & consulted on the PC/RT product from IBM. If only that had listened to me!!

Jan 1983 – Aug 1984 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Designed and implemented the Andrew window system (the first distributed
• window system) and the Andrew user-interface toolkit (the first document based
• object oriented toolkit)

Jan 1983 – Jan 1984 · 1 yr

• Designed and implemented the first version of the Andrew window system and user interface toolkit.

Jan 1981 – Jan 1982 · 1 yr

• Designed and implemented an intelligent mail handling system.
• This eventually became the MHS system from Action Technologies.

Jan 1977 – Jan 1983 · 6 yrs

• PhD in computer science; Ported BSD unix to a 16 CPU symmetric multiprocessor built from PDP11/40Es; implemented Unix Emacs; which eventually became GNU emacs; implemented a Pascal compiler on Multics (a contract job); Designed and implemented a compiler for a language called MUMBLE for a wide-instruction horizontal bit-slice microprocessor (truly a bizarre, but fast, machine)