Alan Emtage

Alan Emtage

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, " [http://www.codeontheroad.com/papers/RD.Comparison.pdf 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

References

* "The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture" John Battelle (Portfolio Hardcover, 2005) ISBN 1-59184-088-0
* "How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web" Robert Cailliau, James Gillies, R. Cailliau (Oxford University Press, 2000) ISBN 0-19-286207-3
*"The Information Revolution: The Not-for-Dummies Guide to the History, Technology, And Use of the World Wide Web" J. R. Okin (Ironbound Press, 2005) ISBN 0-9763857-3-2
*"Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science" Marcel Dekker (CRC Press, 2002) ISBN 0-8247-2072-5
*"Encyclopedia of Microcomputers" Allen Kent, James G Williams, Kent Kent (Marcel Dekke, 2002) ISBN 0-8247-2727-4

Notes

* [http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/ Hobbes' Internet Timeline]
* [http://www.webreference.com/authoring/search_history/ A Brief History of Search Engines]
* [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2108899,00.asp PC Magazine, April 24, 2007]
* [http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,145290/printable.html, PC World Magazine May 18, 2008]

External links

* [http://www.alanemtage.com Home page for Alan Emtage]


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