Mr. Adam Bosworth

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  www.crossgain.com/about/adam.asp - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/8/2001    Last Visited: 1/8/2001  

  Adam Bosworth, Rod Chavez and several other zealots who share a fanatical commitment to the customer founded Crossgain Corporation in February 2000.
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  Adam Bosworth - Co-Founder, CTO and Chairman
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  Adam Bosworth - Chairman
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  About Crossgain ~ Adam Bosworth
  
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  Adam is a technical visionary and industry pioneer, yet he be grounded in the real world.When Adam left Microsoft in January 2000 he considered taking an extended vacation.But his entrepreneurial spirit would not cooperate and soon Adam was sketching on a whiteboard in his home office, building the foundation for Crossgain's vision.His career has been centered on building products that make it easy for users to develop data driven solutions.
  
  Adam was most recently General Manager of the WebData group at Microsoft.His team defined and drove the Microsoft XML strategy, leading to several key submissions to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).Adam worked at Microsoft for 10 years, where he was initially responsible for designing and delivering the Microsoft Access PC Database product.At the end of 1995, with Microsoft facing the Internet tidal wave, Adam's team was given the responsibility of assembling and driving the team that developed Internet Explorer.
  
  Prior to coming to Microsoft, Adam was a senior engineer at Borland where he was responsible for building Quattro, Borland's innovative spreadsheet product.Before Borland, Adam was a founder of Analytica, a software company that built the product Reflex.

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  www.sriramkrishnan.com/blog/atom.xml - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/2/2007    Last Visited: 3/2/2007  

  I had originally written this two years ago as a response to Adam Bosworth, a rant on the elitism of geeks.
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  Originally posted at http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/sriram/archive/2004/11/18/32707.aspx Adam Bosworth, formerly of Microsoft and BEA and now at Google has probably written one of the best blog posts I've ever seen at http://www.adambosworth.net/archives/000031.html.Its a transcript of a talk he has given where he talks about KISS( no, not the French kind, more of the Keep it Simple, Stupid kind).Follow the link and read that post first.In fact, if you're a software developer, take a large printout and paste it over your bed for you won't hear more sound advice.But I want to deal with something Adam doesn't deal with but implies a lot.Something I'd call 'tyranny of the geeks'. Adam talks of KISS and how the simpler interface wins out over the more complex interface in the long run.

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  blog.nextny.org/2007/01/ - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2007    Last Visited: 5/5/2007  

  Last night they kicked it off with a talk given by Adam Bosworth, entitled "Physics, Speed, and Imprecision: What Works and What Doesn't in Software, and Why".Adam discussed how back when he was working at Microsoft [read: evil] in 1997 AJAX was developed, but it didnt take off because it was hideously slow.Now it has been given a second life thanks to broadband technology.Adam tried to stress that when creating web applications one must stick to the KISS rule. (Keep It Simple & Stupid) If you are creating anything on the web today you should be implementing the KISS model.

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  www.computerbusinessreview.com/article_news.asp?guid=34 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/7/2008    Last Visited: 9/27/2007  

  Our CTO went to meet and had an in-depth discussion with Microsoft's Adam Bosworth, who had come from Netscape and owned the browser.The discussion was, what comes after the 4GL?My CTO said XML needs to be in the browser and Adam built it in.

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  dbvt.com/blog/post/iPod-and-Dog-Adam-Bosworth-on-scalab - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/7/2008    Last Visited: 9/6/2008  

  iPod and Dog: Adam Bosworth on scalable services
  
  This is an oldie but goodie that I somehow just listened to the first time a few weeks ago (with a re-listen last week.) Recorded 4/21/2005 at the MySQL Conference, Adam Bosworth talks about scaling on top of sloppy, simple, ubiquitous languages and protocols.Bosworth has been at Google for several years, working at Microsoft on Access and ADO prior to his tenure at Google.His presentation title is "Database Requirements in the Age of Scalable Services."Here's the ITC Details page.
  
  I can't provide many explicit excerpts of the presentation, other than one line when Bosworth described one day in 1995 when he "woke up from a Microsoft-induced narcoleptic coma ... " Gotta love it.
  
  He talked about the origins of the Internet and the perfect storm of HTML and HTTP meaning that HTML was sloppy, every browser renders it, and everybody could play.Didn't have to be high priests or super geeks to contribute.He went on to elaborate on the distributed, de-centralized web and how it supports scale.
  
  RSS allows every company to be a Google, according to Bosworth.He details why, but I'll have to listen again to get it.

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  sriramkrishnan.com/blog/2004/11/tyranny-of-geeks.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2004    Last Visited: 5/12/2008  

  Adam Bosworth, formerly of Microsoft and BEA and now at Google has probably written one of the best blog posts I've ever seen at http://www.adambosworth.net/archives/000031.html.Its a transcript of a talk he has given where he talks about KISS( no, not the French kind, more of the Keep it Simple, Stupid kind).Follow the link and read that post first.In fact, if you're a software developer, take a large printout and paste it over your bed for you won't hear more sound advice.But I want to deal with something Adam doesn't deal with but implies a lot.Something I'd call 'tyranny of the geeks'.
  
  Adam talks of KISS and how the simpler interface wins out over the more complex interface in the long run.

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  www.is-thought.co.uk/Diffuse2/oii/en/xml99.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/27/1999    Last Visited: 11/12/2007  

  Adam Bosworth of Microsoft discussed the advantages of Serializing graphs of data in XML
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  Mr. Bosworth demonstrated how XSL could be used to create different subsets of an XML data set.
  
  In another example Mr. Bosworth took an Access database, and converted it to XML.To his surprise he found that the size of the XML file was smaller than that of the Access database, or of any other relational database the data could be loaded into.What is more, when the data was transmitted over the Internet modem compression of the XML data reduced the file by a factor of 10, whereas almost no compression was achieved when sending the relational database file.In addition the XML file could be queried locally using XSL to create local reports of the database contents.This means that querying can be done at client rather than at server, creating Virtual XML documents from the transmitted database.
  
  Mr. Bosworth talked about "XDL" (an acronym for any standardized XML schema), which adds concepts such as datatypes, database entities (classes) and relations (properties), unique identifiers, and the control of object updatablity and queriability based on a canonical model of data models that is created through standard mappings of database schemas to XML.

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  www.is-thought.co.uk/Diffuse2/oii/en/SGML-98.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/19/1998    Last Visited: 11/12/2007  

  Adam Bosworth of Microsoft pointed out that probably the most unusual thing about the World Wide Web as the way in which it has brought together people you would not previously have expected to work together.

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  ACM News Service - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/30/2004    Last Visited: 9/29/2005  

  Google hired former Microsoft DHTML inventor Adam Bosworth to work on the projects, says Macromedia's David Mendels.

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  Bloggerati: gbrowser.com Registered by Google - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/25/2004    Last Visited: 10/21/2006  

  Adam Bosworth, a former employee of BEA and Microsoft (IE)

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