Jim Roskind

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Jim Roskind
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Born
Bronx NY
Nationality American
Education MIT (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.) [1] [2] [3]
Alma mater MIT
OccupationSoftware engineer
Employer Amazon
Known for QUIC protocol
Awards Hertz Fellowship (1978) [4]
National Cyber Security Hall of Fame (2024)
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Institutions Bell Labs [2]
Infoseek
Netscape
AOL
Google
Amazon
Thesis Edge disjoint spanning trees and failure recovery in data communication networks  (1983)
Doctoral advisor Robert Gallager

Jim Roskind is an American software engineer best known for designing the QUIC [5] protocol in 2012 while being an employee at Google. [6] [7] Roskind co-founded Infoseek in 1994 with 7 other people, including Steve Kirsch. [8] Later that year, Roskind wrote the Python profiler which is part of the standard library. [9] From 1995 to 2003 he was chief architect at Netscape during which time he developed Netscape's Java security module. [10] [11]

Brokerage dispute

While at Netscape in 1996, he successfully brought a lawsuit against Morgan Stanley, arguing that the way they sold his stock caused him to get a lower price than he should have. [12] That case was appealed up to the US Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case, leaving in place a precedent where individuals can sue stock brokers for violations of state law. [13]

References

  1. ↑ "Jim Roskind MIT Page".
  2. 1 2 Roskind, James Anthony (1980). Protocols for encoding idle characters in data streams (SM thesis). MIT.
  3. ↑ Roskind, James Anthony (1983). Edge disjoint spanning trees and failure recovery in data communication networks (PhD thesis). MIT.
  4. ↑ "Jim Roskind Hertz Foundation Page".
  5. ↑ "QUIC: Design Document and Specification Rationale". Jim Roskind, Chromium Contributor.
  6. ↑ "Google Chrome browser is rolling out HTTP/3 via IETF QUIC". TechSpot. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
  7. ↑ Alison Harcourt; Seamus Simpson (30 January 2020), Global Standard Setting in Internet Governance, Oxford University Press, pp. 67–, ISBN   978-0-19-884152-4
  8. ↑ "Infoseek SEC Amendment No. 2 To Form S-1". 1996-05-13.
  9. ↑ "The Python Profilers — Python 3.9.0 documentation". docs.python.org. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  10. ↑ Andy Baio (2008-06-17). "Code Rush, the Mozilla Documentary from 2000". Waxy.org. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  11. ↑ "Neumob hires Netscape, Google veteran Jim Roskind as CTO". TechCrunch. 3 March 2016. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  12. ↑ Eaton, Leslie (1998-02-11). "It's Little Guys, 1; Morgan Stanley, 0 (Published 1998)". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-10-28.
  13. ↑ Egelko, Bob (2001-01-17). "Court Yields On Broader Stock Suits". SFGATE. Retrieved 2020-11-12.
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