Roger Gregory
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Roger Everett Gregory is a US computer programmer, technologist, and scientist. Gregory's work in project Xanadu made him one of earliest pioneers of hypertext technology, which helped lay the foundations for the hyperlink technology that underlies the World Wide Web.[1] Roger attended the University of Michigan as a mathematics major. In the 1970s, Roger founded the Ann Arbor Computer Club, similar to the West Coast's Home Brew Computer Club.
In 1974 Gregory met Theodore Holm (Ted) Nelson, the author of Computer Lib/Dream Machines, and the thinker who coined the term "hypertext". The pair became friends. In 1979 Nelson convinced Gregory to move from Michigan and join him in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, the small, sleepy college town outside of Philadelphia where Nelson earned his undergraduate degree, and first conceived the concept of a hypertext. Gregory's first summer in Swarthmore, characterized by Xanadu insiders as the "Swarthmore Summer", was a productive time, where Nelson and Gregory enjoyed the collaboration of other volunteers, including Stuart Green and Mark S. Miller.
Later, as founder, CEO, CTO and Chairman of the Board of Xanadu Operating Company, Roger led design and development of a hypertext technology that includes quotable documents with version control, fine-grained, bidirectional links, the ability to track intellectual property rights, and a mechanism to pay royalties. Gregory is also co-designer of a rotary rocket engine design based on the posthumous patents of Robert Goddard (U.S. patent 6212876 from 2001). Today he is a cofounder of Eyegorithm.
In 2010 Gregory was interviewed by the Internet Archive.[2]
References
- ↑ The Internet: Biographies. ABC-CLIO. p. 188. ISBN 9781851096596. https://books.google.ca/books?id=qi-ItIG6QLwC&pg=PA188&lpg=PA188&dq=%22Roger+Gregory%22+OR+%22Roger+E.+Gregory%22+OR+%22Roger+Everett+Gregory%22+hypertext+OR+autodesk+OR+xanadu&source=bl&ots=uyQKBtQ5IL&sig=g-m1WuOaqt4QC4h7AEux-gSMVkM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3lb5VOPdJIyryATdmYKoAg&ved=0CFQQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22Roger%20Gregory%22%20OR%20%22Roger%20E.%20Gregory%22%20OR%20%22Roger%20Everett%20Gregory%22%20hypertext%20OR%20autodesk%20OR%20xanadu&f=false. Retrieved 2015-03-06. "Nelson, now teaching at Swarthmore College, gathered together a half-dozen programmers, led by one of Xanadu's most staunch supporters, Roger Gregory to bring the mythic software program to life."
- ↑ Belinda Barnet (2014). Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext. Anthem Press. p. 81-82, 89. ISBN 9781783083442. https://books.google.ca/books?id=N1qWBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA89&lpg=PA89&dq=%22Roger+Gregory%22+OR+%22Roger+E.+Gregory%22+OR+%22Roger+Everett+Gregory%22+hypertext+OR+autodesk+OR+xanadu&source=bl&ots=8VCP6czlWn&sig=ajrcNr9ZWKghQE323a8MaOUC4vs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dl75VMe3L8v5yQS66IC4AQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=%22Roger%20Gregory%22%20OR%20%22Roger%20E.%20Gregory%22%20OR%20%22Roger%20Everett%20Gregory%22%20hypertext%20OR%20autodesk%20OR%20xanadu&f=false. Retrieved 2015-03-06. "In an interview with the Internet Archive, Gregory says he got a group together at Swarthmore and designed a system that he 'almost had working' by 1988, when he organized funding through Autodesk, an American software corporation (Gregor 2010)."
<ref> tag with name "AphHacking" defined in <references> is not used in prior text.External links
- Letter detailing information on project Xanadu: http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_64.html
- Roger Gregory Interview at Ted Nelson Book Launch
- Udanax, the open-source release of the Xanadu code base for Squeak, a Smalltalk implementation
- Roger's site documenting the rotary rocket engine
- Overview of Gregory's work on Xanadu (chapter 6) (In the view of Xanadu members, the article is considered to be negatively biased.)
