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Jim Roskind
EducationMIT (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)[1][2][3]
OccupationSoftware engineer
EmployerAmazon
Known forQUIC protocol

Jim Roskind is an American software engineer best known for designing the QUIC protocol in 2012 while being an employee at Google.[4][5] Roskind co-founded Infoseek in 1994 with 7 other people, including Steve Kirsch.[6] Later that year, Roskind wrote the Python profiler which is part of the standard library.[7] From 1995 to 2003 he was chief architect at Netscape during which time he developed Netscape's Java security module.[8][9]

Brokerage dispute

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While at Netscape in 1996, he successfully brought a lawsuit against Morgan Stanley, arguing that the way they sold his stock caused him to get a lower price than he should have.[10] That case was appealed up to the US Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case, leaving in place a precedent where individuals can sue stock brokers for violations of state law.[11]

References

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  1. ^ "Jim Roskind MIT Page".
  2. ^ Roskind, James Anthony (1980). Protocols for encoding idle characters in data streams (SM thesis). MIT.
  3. ^ Roskind, James Anthony (1983). Edge disjoint spanning trees and failure recovery in data communication networks (PhD thesis). MIT.
  4. ^ "Google Chrome browser is rolling out HTTP/3 via IETF QUIC". TechSpot. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
  5. ^ Alison Harcourt; Seamus Simpson (30 January 2020), Global Standard Setting in Internet Governance, Oxford University Press, pp. 67–, ISBN 978-0-19-884152-4
  6. ^ "Infoseek SEC Amendment No. 2 To Form S-1". 1996-05-13.
  7. ^ "The Python Profilers — Python 3.9.0 documentation". docs.python.org. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  8. ^ Andy Baio (2008-06-17). "Code Rush, the Mozilla Documentary from 2000". Waxy.org. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  9. ^ "Neumob hires Netscape, Google veteran Jim Roskind as CTO". TechCrunch. 3 March 2016. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  10. ^ Eaton, Leslie (1998-02-11). "It's Little Guys, 1; Morgan Stanley, 0 (Published 1998)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
  11. ^ Egelko, Bob (2001-01-17). "Court Yields On Broader Stock Suits". SFGATE. Retrieved 2020-11-12.
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