Jim Roskind
American software engineer
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Jim Roskind is an American software engineer best known for designing the QUIC[5] protocol in 2012 while an employee at Google.[6][7] Roskind co-founded Infoseek in 1994 with 7 other people, including Steve Kirsch.[8] Later that year, Roskind wrote the Python profiler which is part of the standard library.[9] From 1995 to 2003 he was chief architect at Netscape during which time he developed Netscape's Java security module.[10][11]
Jim Roskind | |
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| Born | Bronx NY |
| Education | MIT (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)[1][2][3] |
| Alma mater | MIT |
| Occupation | Software engineer |
| Employer | Amazon |
| Known for | QUIC protocol |
| Awards | Hertz Fellowship (1978) [4] National Cyber Security Hall of Fame (2024) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Bell Labs[2] Infoseek Netscape AOL Amazon |
| Thesis | Edge disjoint spanning trees and failure recovery in data communication networks (1983) |
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Brokerage dispute
While at Netscape in 1996, he successfully brought a lawsuit against Morgan Stanley, arguing that the way they sold his stock caused him to get a lower price than he should have.[12] That case was appealed up to the US Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case, leaving in place a precedent where individuals can sue stock brokers for violations of state law.[13]