Age, Biography and Wiki
Jim Gettys was born on 15 October, 1953, is an American computer programmer. Discover Jim Gettys's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?
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Computer programmer |
| Age |
70 years old |
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Libra |
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15 October, 1953 |
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15 October |
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He is a member of famous Computer with the age 70 years old group.
Jim Gettys Height, Weight & Measurements
At 70 years old, Jim Gettys height not available right now. We will update Jim Gettys's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Jim Gettys Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Jim Gettys worth at the age of 70 years old? Jim Gettys’s income source is mostly from being a successful Computer. He is from . We have estimated Jim Gettys's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Pending |
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Under Review |
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Timeline
Jim Gettys (born 15 October 1953) is an American computer programmer.
He was involved in multiple computer related projects.
Gettys worked at DEC's Cambridge Research Laboratory.
He is one of the original developers of the X Window System at MIT and worked on it again with X.Org, where he served on the board of directors.
He won the 1997 Internet Plumber of the Year award on behalf of the group who worked on HTTP/1.1.
Gettys is one of the keepers of the Flame (USENIX's 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award) on behalf of The X Window System Community at Large.
Until January 2009, he was the Vice President of Software at the One Laptop per Child project, working on the software for the OLPC XO-1.
From 2009 through 2014, he worked at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs.
Gettys was the co-founder of the group investigating Bufferbloat and the effect it has on the performance of the Internet., and was a core member of the group from 2010 to 2017, concluding with his publication of "The Blind Man and the Elephant", calling for the wide adoption of Fair Queuing and AQM techniques across the Internet, particularly RFC8290
He served on the GNOME foundation board of directors.
He worked at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and was the editor of the HTTP/1.1 specification in the Internet Engineering Task Force through draft standard.
Gettys helped establish the handhelds.org community, from which the development of Linux on handheld devices can be traced.
One of his main goals at OLPC was to review and overhaul much of standard Linux software, in order to make it run faster and consume less memory and power.
In this context, he has pointed out a common fallacy among programmers today: that storing computed values in memory is preferable to recomputing those values later.
This, he claims, is often false on current hardware, given fast CPUs and the long time it takes to recover from a potential cache miss.
He holds a BSc degree from MIT in Earth and Planetary Sciences (course 12 — EAPS).
