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I'm going to talk about the development of standards, and some of the design problems around it, with examples taken from my experiences with Common Lisp and with web standards. I want to delve into the process a bit, reflect on the role of standards organizations in the world, and how system design needs to take into account politics, economics, and social issues today, as well as the original goals of performance and reliability.
Larry Masinter is a principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. His interests focus on document management, digital libraries, and the World Wide Web. He's chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force working group on the HTTP protocol, and active in the development of Internet standards. He's also a contributor to the development of document management interfaces and standards, and in the application of network technologies to digital libraries. Dr. Masinter received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and was a recipient of the 1992 ACM Software System Award for his work on the Interlisp programming environment.
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