Everything about Alan Emtage totally explained
Alan Emtage (born
November 27,
1964) conceived of and implemented the first version of
Archie, a pre-Web internet search engine for locating material in public
FTP archives.
A native of
Barbados, and the son of Sir Stephen and Lady Emtage, he attended
high school at
Harrison College from
1975 to
1983 (and in
1981 becoming the proud owner of a
Sinclair ZX81 with 1K of memory), where he graduated at the top of his class, winning the prestigious
Barbados Scholarship.
In
1983 he entered
McGill University in
Montreal,
Canada studying for an honors
Bachelor's degree in
computer science which was followed by a
Master's degree in
1987 from which he graduated in
1991. Emtage was part of the team that brought the first Internet link to eastern
Canada (and only the second link in the country) in
1986. In
1989 while a student and working as a
systems administrator for the School of
Computer Science, Emtage conceived of and implemented the original version of the
Archie search engine, the world's first Internet
search engine and the start of a line which leads directly to today's
Altavista,
Yahoo!, and
Google.
In
1992, Emtage along with
Peter J. Deutsch formed
Bunyip Information Systems the world's first company expressly founded for and dedicated to providing Internet information services with a licensed commercial version of the
Archie search engine used by millions of people worldwide.
Emtage was a founding member of the
Internet Society and went on to create and chair several important Working Groups at the
Internet Engineering Task Force (
IETF), the standard-setting body for the Internet. Working with other pioneers such as
Tim Berners-Lee,
Marc Andreessen,
Mark McCahill (creator of
Gopher) and
Jon Postel, Emtage co-chaired the
Uniform Resource Identifier (
URI) Working Group which created and codified the standard for
Uniform Resource Locators (
URLs).
Emtage has spoken and lectured around the world on Internet Information Systems.
Emtage is currently
Chief Technical Officer at
Mediapolis, Inc., a web engineering company in
New York City.
Works
- A. Emtage, P. Deutsch, "archie - An Electronic Directory Service for the Internet" Winter Usenix Conference Proceedings 1992. Pages 93-110.
- Michael F. Schwartz, Alan Emtage, Brewster Kahle, B. Clifford Neuman, "A Comparison of Internet Resource Discovery Approaches
", Computing Systems, Fall 1992, pp. 461-493, 5(4),
- P. Deutsch, A. Emtage, A. Marine, How to Use Anonymous FTP (RFC 1635, May 1994)
- Alan Emtage, "Publishing in the Internet environment", Proceedings of the Sixth Joint European Networking Conference, 1995
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