Curl Corporation Names Industry Veteran Donald Davis Corporate Security Architect.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 2001 Curl Corporation, which provides technology that enables the creation and deployment of the next generation of Web applications, today announced that Donald Davis For other persons, see and Don Davis. Donald Davis is an athlete. He holds the world record for running the fastest backward mile. On February 21, 1983 it took him 6 minutes and 7.1 seconds to run backward one mile, faster than anyone else in history. has joined their accomplished team of security experts as corporate security architect. In this role, Davis will collaborate with other top Curl software architects including Robert H. Halstead, Jr. and David A. Kranz to implement the software security architecture within the Curl technology. Davis brings more than 12 years of network security and cryptography experience to Curl. He served as a security consultant for Wall Street financial institutions and high technology corporations for ten years. Davis worked on Kerberos, a network authentication protocol designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography, for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (M.I.T.) Project Athena (project) Project Athena - A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at MIT. Much of the software developed is now in wider use, especially the X Window System. . He has published numerous papers on network security, secure protocol design and cryptography in conjunction with USENIX and the International Association for Cryptologic Research The International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) is a non-profit scientific organization whose purpose is to further research in cryptology and related fields. (IACR IACR International Association for Cryptologic Research IACR Institute for Arable Crops Research IACR Irish Association for Cancer Research ). Davis holds a degree from M.I.T. "Internet security ''This article or section is being rewritten at Internet security is the process of protecting data and privacy of devices connected to internet from information robbery, hacking, malware infection and unwanted software. is a paramount concern to Curl as we continue to build the next generation Web development and deployment environment for e-commerce, business and entertainment," said Robert A. Young Robert A. Young III (November 27, 1923 – October 17, 2007) was a Democratic politician from the state of Missouri who served five terms in the US House of Representatives. , chairman, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and co-founder of Curl. "Don brings broad experience to complement the top-notch team we've assembled to proactively address security issues for developers creating Curl content and the end users of Curl applications." Curl's software - Curl Surge(TM), a browser plug-in A third-party software product, such as a search toolbar, that is integrated into a Web browser to extend its capabilities. A "helper application" provides similar capabilities to a browser plug-in, but runs as an external application and typically launches another window for viewing. ; and Curl Surge Lab(TM), a complete platform for Web developers - significantly boosts performance and improves the online experience for business, e-commerce or entertainment applications. Curl technology greatly reduces download times by radically reducing Web page size, dramatically accelerates user response time, and delivers a significantly richer user experience. Curl software offers a more flexible, easier to use and more secure environment than currently available approaches for Internet content delivery. It includes security features that avoid the privacy problems typically associated with cookies. A beta version A pre-shipping release of hardware or software that has gone through alpha test. A beta version of software is supposed to be very close to the final product, but, in practice, it is more a way of getting users to test the software in the first place under real conditions. of the Curl Surge and Curl Surge Lab is available for download at www.curl.com. The company expects the first commercial release of its technology later this quarter. Additional Background on Curl's Corporate Architects Dr. Robert H. Halstead, Jr. Dr. Robert H. Halstead, Jr., a Curl co-founder and corporate architect, has spent 20 years researching programming languages and parallel computation in both academic and industrial settings. During nine years as a faculty member at M.I.T. he developed the "futures" programming-language construct and implemented it in the parallel programming language Multilisp. Halstead continued his work as a member of the technical staff and a consulting engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Lab. At Digital he initiated and guided the project that led to High Performance Fortran (language) High Performance Fortran - (HPF) A data parallel language extension to Fortran 90 which provides a portable programming interface for a wide variety of target platforms. , a widely known parallel programming language endorsed by an industry-wide forum. In addition to consulting for numerous industrial clients Halstead has authored or edited more than 30 technical publications, and served on four technical journal editorial boards and eleven technical conference program committees. He received a bachelor's degree and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. Dr. David A. Kranz Before joining Curl as a co-founder and corporate architect, Dr. David A. Kranz was a principal research scientist in the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science. He developed the Orbit compiler, the basis for the first high-performance Scheme System (T), which is used worldwide. Additionally, Kranz was the software architect for the M.I.T. Alewife alewife: see herring. alewife Important North American food fish (Pomolobus, or Alosa, pseudoharengus) of the herring family. The alewife grows to about 1 ft (30 cm). scalable multiprocessor project including languages, compilers, runtime-systems, debugger and user interface. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University Yale University, at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was . About Curl Corporation Curl Corporation enables content providers, e-commerce sites and Web programmers to develop and deploy the next generation of Web pages and applications by providing full application-level functionality and a substantially richer, more interactive user experience. Curl's client-side processing capability significantly boosts performance and improves the online experience for business, e-commerce or entertainment. It allows faster downloads of rich media such as graphics, animation and video. Organizations can use Curl content to build significantly stickier Web sites and substantially reduce file sizes typically associated with rich media, at a cost lower than traditional Web content delivery. Curl, located in Cambridge, Mass., was founded in 1998 by a team of internationally renowned computer scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, . For more information visit www.curl.com. Curl, Surge and Surge Lab are trademarks of Curl Corporation. All brand and product names appearing in this news release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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