Kipp E.B. Hickman
Principal Engineer
kipp@netscape.com
Netscape Communications Corp.
501 East Middlefield Rd.
Mountain View, CA 94043
415-254-1900
I am working at Netscape Communications Corp, soon to be
the largest software company on the planet, replacing that other
company whose name escapes me (ok, maybe not soon :-). (Insert
fancy logo here).
Things that I spend alot of time doing:
- Designing, implementing, testing, debugging, documenting,
selling, explaining, living, and breathing our java
implementation. Java is the coolest thing since VCR's.
- I used to design, implement, test, debug, document, sell,
explain, live, and breath our security software, but I don't do that
anymore. To learn more about it, click here.
Prior to joining Netscape, I was an engineer at
Silicon Graphics for almost ten years. I was originally hired to bring
up the BSD operating system on the companies original workstation
product (anybody remember the IRIS 1400? Anybody notice how we ended
up using SVR3. Oy). After that, I did a bunch of things including:
- Designed and implemented the EFS, the Extent File System.
- Worked on NeWS. Sun's ill fated PostScript windowing
system/window manager thingy. SGI had originally used a proprietary
window system (MEX), but decided to go with an up and coming standard.
So much for that look into the crystal ball...
- I helped develop the first version of WorkSpace, SGI's
cool desktop product. I wrote the first version of jot, a
really dumb text editor so that computer naive users could have an
editor.
- I wrote xwsh, the terminal emulator of champions :^)
- I helped specify (in a small way) the OpenGL. I designed
the portable implementation architecture and helped implement (in a
large way) the sample implementation.
- Somewhere in there I wrote the SGI ScreenSaver extension for X.
- Finally, the last thing I did at SGI was work on the Interactive
Cable TV project. I architected and mostly implemented the
RiscKernel, a teeny tiny operating system that lives in the
Cable Set-top boxes.