Jim Whitehead (programmer)

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Jim Whitehead
Occupation Dept. of Computer Science University of California, Santa Cruz
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Jim Whitehead is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1989, and a PhD in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, in 2000. Jim recently led the creation of the BS Computer Science: Computer Game Design degree program at UC Santa Cruz, the first game oriented degree program in the UC system. Previously, he performed hard, real-time firmware development as a software engineer for Raytheon, 1989-1992. From 1996-2004, Jim created and led the Internet Engineering Task Force working group on Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning, and is considered the "father" of the WebDAV protocol. He is author on over 50 peer-reviewed articles on software engineering and hypertext systems, and seven internet standards (RFC) documents.