Allaire moved the company to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1996 with his brother and founding team member, Jeremy Allaire.[9] Allaire served as the Chairman and CEO of Allaire Corporation, then as its Executive Vice President of Products after hiring David Orfao as the company's CEO.[1]
In 2002, Allaire co-founded Onfolio with Adam Berrey[5] and Charles Teague[12] and led the development of its suite of tools for web research and publishing,[13] released in 2004. Onfolio was acquired by Microsoft in 2006.[14] At Microsoft, Allaire created a blog publishing product called Windows Live Writer, initially released in 2007.[15][16] Windows Live Writer was distributed by Microsoft as part of Windows Essentials, until it was discontinued in 2015 and forked into an open-source version called Open Live Writer.[17]
FitNow and Lose It!
In 2008, Allaire, Paul DiCristina and Charles Teague co-founded FitNow, a company dedicated to mobile health and fitness applications, and created Lose It!, a mobile weight loss application with over 17 million users.[6][18][19][20][21][22]
RStudio
In 2009, Allaire founded RStudio, a company that builds tools for the Rstatistical computing environment. Allaire created the company's flagship product RStudio, a 2015 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award recipient.[23]
Beginning in 2013, Allaire worked on the R Markdown ecosystem of scientific publishing packages, including R Markdown, Distill for R, and Flexdashboard.[24][25][26][27] From 2018 through 2020, Allaire worked on R interfaces to Python, and R versions of the TensorFlow and Keras Python packages.[28][29][30]
In 2021, Allaire and Charles Teague created Quarto, a Jupyter-based scientific publishing system.[31] Quarto was publicly announced in 2022.[32]
Inspect AI
In 2024, Allaire joined the UK AI Security Institute as a staff engineer, where he led the development of Inspect AI, an open-source framework for evaluating large language models.[33][34] Inspect was first open-sourced in May 2024,[35] and has since been adopted by research organisations including METR,[36] Apollo Research,[37] and SecureBio,[38] model developers including Anthropic,[39] Thinking Machines,[40] and Hugging Face,[41] and governments including the UK AI Security Institute[42] and the US NIST Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI).[43]
In 2025, Allaire co-founded Meridian Research Labs, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that builds open-source tools for AI research and evaluation.[44][45]. Allaire also serves as a visiting researcher at the US CAISI.[44]
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