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Biography

Jeffrey C. Mogul received an S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979, an M.S. from Stanford University in 1980, and his PhD from the Stanford University Computer Science Department in 1986. Jeff has been an active participant in the Internet community, and is the author or co-author of several Internet Standards. He is a co-author of the HTTP/1.1 specification. Since 1986, he has been a researcher at the Compaq (formerly Digital) Western Research Laboratory, working on network and operating systems issues for high-performance computer systems, and on improving performance of the Internet and the World Wide Web. He is a member of ACM, Sigma Xi, and CPSR, and was Program Committee Chair for the Winter 1994 USENIX Technical Conference, and for the IEEE TCOS Sixth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems.

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