Maciej Stachowiak
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Maciej Stachowiak | |
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 Maciej Stachowiak in Boston, 2009 | |
| Born | June 6, 1976 |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | MIT Course 6 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science S.B. and M.Eng. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
| Parent(s) | Grzegorz and Anna Stachowiak |
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline | HTML Standards |
| Employer | Apple Inc. |
| Projects | Nautilus, GNOME, Safari / WebKit |
| Significant design | HTML 5, WebKit |
Maciej Stachowiak (/ˈmætʃeɪ stəˈhoʊvi.æk/ ⓘ; born June 6, 1976) is a Polish American software developer currently employed by Apple Inc., where he is a leader of the development team responsible for the WebKit Framework. A longtime proponent of open source software, Stachowiak was involved with the SCWM, GNOME and Nautilus projects for Linux before joining Apple. He is actively involved the development of web standards, served as a co-chair of the World Wide Web Consortium's HTML 5 working group and was a member of the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group steering committee.
After graduating from East High School (Rochester, New York) in 1994,[1] Stachowiak was accepted into MIT where he completed Course 6 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and received both his S.B. and M.Eng. in 1998.[2]
While at MIT Stachowiak worked on the Rethinking CS101 project,[3][4] and in 1997 he began the Scheme Constraints Window Manager project with Greg J. Badros.[5] He also contributed to a paper with the Cognitive & Neural Sciences Office of Naval Research.[6] Stachowiak's MIT M.Eng. thesis on "Automated Extraction of Structured data from HTML Documents" was indicative of his early interest in web standards and development.[7]
