Rohit Khare
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Rohit Khare is computer science
entrepreneur
who has been active in many aspects of the development of the World Wide Web
. He is the founder of Ångströ, co-founder of KnowNow, former Director of CommerceNet
Labs, and a key player in the microformats
community. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine
, and a bachelors from Caltech, both in Computer Science. He previously worked on Internet security
for the W3C.
He is also active in the Representational State Transfer
(ReST) community, and in August 2007 authored the ARRESTED paper on Syndication-oriented architectures, a RESTful approach to Publish subscribe and variant of Service-oriented architecture
.
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
who has been active in many aspects of the development of the World Wide Web
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...
. He is the founder of Ångströ, co-founder of KnowNow, former Director of CommerceNet
CommerceNet
CommerceNet is a 5016 organization established in 1994 to promote electronic commerce on the Internet. The organisation initially focused on industry-wide research and programs that have advanced the commercial use of the Internet.-History:...
Labs, and a key player in the microformats
Microformats
A microformat is a web-based approach to semantic markup which seeks to re-use existing HTML/XHTML tags to convey metadata and other attributes in web pages and other contexts that support HTML, such as RSS...
community. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine
University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...
, and a bachelors from Caltech, both in Computer Science. He previously worked on Internet security
Internet security
Internet security is a branch of computer security specifically related to the Internet. Its objective is to establish rules and measures to use against attacks over the Internet. The Internet represents an insecure channel for exchanging information leading to a high risk of intrusion or fraud,...
for the W3C.
He is also active in the Representational State Transfer
Representational State Transfer
Representational state transfer is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web. The term representational state transfer was introduced and defined in 2000 by Roy Fielding in his doctoral dissertation...
(ReST) community, and in August 2007 authored the ARRESTED paper on Syndication-oriented architectures, a RESTful approach to Publish subscribe and variant of Service-oriented architecture
Service-oriented architecture
In software engineering, a Service-Oriented Architecture is a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services are well-defined business functionalities that are built as software components that can be reused for...
.
External links
- Rohit Khare's profile at ångströ.com
- Rohit Khare's Biography on the CommerceNet wiki
- Rohit Khare's homepage at UCI
- 4K Associates, a collection point for Rohit's online activities, including the FoRK mailing list