| 词条 | Jim Warren (computer specialist) |
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| name = Jim Warren | image = Computing%27s Jim Warren in Hansville WA%2C May 2010.jpg | image_size = | caption = Jim Warren in Hansville WA 2010 | birth_date = 1936 | birth_place = Oakland, California, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = {{hlist|Computer professional|Educator (mathematics and computing)|Entrepreneur|Editor and publisher|Activist}} | spouse = | parents = }} Jim Warren (born 1936) is a retired American mathematics and computing educator, computer professional, entrepreneur, editor, publisher and continuing sometime activist. Early careerFrom 1957 to 1967 Warren was a mathematics teacher at secondary-school level, and professor at college and university levels, with his last full-time academic position being Chair of the Mathematics Department at the College of Notre Dame, Belmont, a small liberal arts college in Belmont, California. He later taught computer courses at Stanford University, San Jose State University and San Francisco State University. He had his first full-time teaching contract, for an annual salary of {{US$|2,987}}, when he was 20 years old and had completed only three years of college. In the ensuing decade, he was also a National Science Foundation Guest Lecturer, was the founder and Director of Summer Mathematics Institutes at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas, and earned national recognition for innovative weekly enrichment programs he created for secondary school students, and for in-service programs for elementary and secondary school teachers, all without cost, as Chair of the Alamo District [South Texas] Council of Teachers of Mathematics (1960–1962). In the late 1960s, Warren was involved in the radical, utopian, alternative, hippie Midpeninsula Free University, including serving pro-bono as its elected General Secretary for three terms. In that time, he created and edited its irregular magazine, which he titled The Free You.[1] Computing{{BLP unsourced section|date=January 2013}}From 1968 through the mid-1970s Warren worked as a freelance minicomputer programmer and computer consultant, operating under the name, Frelan Associates (for "free land"), creating assembler-level real-time data-acquisition and process-control programs for biomedical research at Stanford Medical Center, and control programs for various high-tech companies around Silicon Valley. In those years, he also chaired the Association for Computing Machinery's regional chapters of SIGPLAN, SIGMICRO and the San Francisco Peninsula ACM. In 1977, Warren co-founded the West Coast Computer Faire which, for a half-dozen years, was the largest public microcomputer convention in the world. He was its self-titled "Faire Chaircreature," organizing eight conventions.[2][3][4] In 1983, he sold the Faire to Prentice-Hall, "for 100% down; nothin' to pay".[5] To promote the Computer Faires and circulate news and gossip about the then-infant microcomputer industry, he founded and edited the first free tabloid newspaper about microcomputing, the irregular Silicon Gulch Gazette (SGG), published from issue #0 in February, 1977, through issue #43, in January, 1986.[6] Beginning in 1978, Warren created and published the Intelligent Machines Journal (IMJ, which is also Pig Latin for "Jim"), the first subscription news periodical about microcomputing, published as a tabloid newspaper, with Tom Williams as its founding Editor. Warren sold IMJ in late 1979, to Patrick McGovern, the founder of the International Data Group and numerous computer periodicals worldwide, notably including Computerworld. McGovern quickly renamed IMJ to be InfoWorld, as his first microcomputer periodical, later converting it to various glossy magazine formats.[7] He hosted PBS television's Computer Chronicles series for their first two seasons (originated at the College of San Mateo's KCSM-TV, Channel 60, 1981–1982).[8] Warren also founded and published the short-lived DataCast magazine, edited by Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes, focused on in-depth tutorials about specific microcomputer programs, and was the founder and producer of the equally ill-fated Video Initiative, providing similar self-paced videotape tutorials. Warren was the founding Editor of Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia, the first computer magazine to focus on microcomputer software, created and published by the nonprofit People's Computer Company.[9] From 1990 to 1995, he was a member of the Board of Directors of Autodesk, Inc., one of the best-known publishers of computer-aided design (CAD) programs for microcomputers, with AutoCAD as its flagship product. At the time, it was one of the largest microcomputer software publishers, with a market cap sometimes near a billion dollars. His tenure there including presenting Autodesk's position opposing software patents,[10][11] and chairing the Board's CEO Search Committee that found and selected Carol Bartz as its CEO. ActivismWarren founded and chaired the first Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference, held in 1991, which drew more than a hundred articles of press coverage, internationally. The CFP conferences have continued, under other leadership, for more than 25 years, consistently drawing national and international attention and attendance.[12][13][14][15][16] In 1993, he assisted Debra Bowen pro-bono, then a freshman member of the California State Assembly, in drafting Assembly Bill 1624 (AB 1624) and organized much of the statewide support that helped it pass four committee votes and three floor votes without a single dissenting vote. When AB 1624 took effect on Jan. 1, 1994, it made California the first state in the nation to open all of its computerized public legislative records, statutes, constitution and regulations, to fee-free access via the Internet.[17] Thereafter, numerous other states modeled their own legislation after AB1624, as evidenced by their use of the same eccentric phrasing that Warren drafted in AB 1624 to describe the Internet, which was relatively unknown at the time: "the largest nonproprietary, nonprofit cooperative public computer network". This was necessary to silence naive politicians objecting that it would be "giving away" public records to the Internet "company". In 1995–1996, Warren served on the Advisory Panel on Electronic Filings of the California Secretary of State. This panel advised the Secretary on how-best to implement new mandates for computerizing political-campaign financial statements, and making them timely-available to the public in electronic form without excessive fees.[18] In 1996–1997, he served on the California Senate's Task Force on Electronic Access to Public Records, that produced recommendations regarding how to make computerized state and local public government records available to the public in electronic form. Warren was one of the minority who advocated online access without agency fees, and charging no more than the direct incremental cost of copying, when copies were requested in physical form. The majority of Task Force members were from city and county agencies, almost entirely advocating making the records available in electronic form, but only for fees far in excess of direct copying costs.[19] Political careerIn 1985, Warren was elected countywide, in a county of 700,000 population, to the Board of Trustees of the three-college San Mateo County Community College District, for 1986–1989. In 1986, knowing he had no chance of winning, Warren nonetheless ran unsuccessfully for San Mateo County Supervisor against then-President of the County Board of Supervisors, Anna Eshoo, as a protest of her representation of the county's rural minority that composed much of her supervisorial district. Other worksAside from the several periodicals and conference proceedings mentioned above, Warren also created, published and edited the Peninsula Citizens' Advocate tabloid newspaper, addressing local rural political issues (very irregularly, 1984–1986). Warren was the Futures columnist for Microtimes, writing a monthly "Realizable Fantasies" column (1990–2001); the Government Access columnist for Boardwatch magazine (1994–1996), and the Public Access columnist for Government Technology magazine (1993–1996, 2000). Warren also wrote the nontechnical "Coastside Curmudgeon" column for the Half Moon Bay Review, Half Moon Bay, CA (1994–1996). He also wrote the first invited, refereed survey of early personal computer developments in Computer magazine,[20][21] a 15-year retrospective called "We, The People, In The Information Age" in Dr. Dobb's Journal, January, 1991, etc. EducationWarren holds an MS in Computer Engineering from Stanford (1977), an MS in Medical Information Science from the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center (1974), an MA in Mathematics & Statistics from the University of Texas at Austin (1964), and a BA in Mathematics & IA (1959) from what was then Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos, Texas. He completed all but his dissertation ("ABD") for a Ph.D. in EE-Computer Engineering from Stanford (advanced to candidacy, 1975). Awards
References1. ^{{cite web | title = Alive in the 60s: The Midpeninsula Free University | first = Jim | last = Wolpman | url = http://midpeninsulafreeu.com/ | accessdate = January 18, 2015}} 2. ^{{cite book | chapter = The First West Coast Computer Faire (Microcomputer trade show at San Francisco, April 16–17, 1977) | editor-first = David H. | editor-last = Ahl | editor2-first = Burchenal | editor2-last = Green | chapterurl = http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc3/showpage.php?page=98 | title = The Best of Creative Computing, Volume 3 | date = April 2, 1980 | publisher = Creative Computing Press | location = Morristown, New Jersey | asin = B007RQORGS}} 3. ^{{cite web | title = West Coast Computer Faire Brochures, Forms and Proceedings (from 1977-1978) | url = http://www.digibarn.com/collections/brochures/wcc-faire/index.html | publisher = Digibarn Computer Museum | accessdate = January 18, 2015}} 4. ^{{cite web | title = 1977 West Coast Computer Faire Program | url = http://www.6502lane.net/2012/04/17/1977-west-coast-computer-faire-program-2/ | date = April 17, 2012 | first = Mike | last = Maginnis | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120428042424/http://www.6502lane.net/2012/04/17/1977-west-coast-computer-faire-program-2/ | archivedate = April 28, 2012}} 5. ^{{cite book | title = Hackers – Heroes of the Computer Revolution | edition = 25th Anniversary | first = Steven | last = Levy | url = http://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/books/hackers | publisher = O'Reilly Media | format = Paperback | date = May 30, 2010 | isbn = 978-1449388393}} 6. ^{{cite web | title = Artifact Details: Silicon Gulch Gazette | publisher = Computer History Museum | url = http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102686281}} 7. ^{{cite book|title=Fire in the Valley|first1=Paul |last1=Freiberger |authorlink1=Paul Freiberger|first2=Michael |last2=Swaine |authorlink2=Michael Swaine (technical author)|url=http://www.landsnail.com/apple/local/fire-site/index.html | edition = 2nd | format = Paperback | date = November 29, 2000 | publisher = McGraw-Hill Companies | isbn = 978-0071358927}} 8. ^{{cite web | website = Winners for the 1995 Dvorak PC Telecommunications Excellence Awards | title = Man of the Year: Alan Meckler, CEO, Mecklermedia | date = April 7, 1997 | first = John C. | last = Dvorak | url = http://www.citivu.com/dvorak/95awds.html#manoyr}} 9. ^{{cite web | title = The History and Philosophy of DDJ | website = Dr. Dobb's Journal | publisher = UBM Tech | url = http://www.drdobbs.com/aboutus}} 10. ^{{cite web | title = Autodesk Statement on Software Patents: Transcript of proceedings from public hearings by the Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce, Docket #931222-3322: Use of the Patent System to Protect Software Related Inventions, January 26-27, 1994 at the San Jose Convention Center and February 10-11, 1994, at the Crystal Forum in Arlington, Virginia | url = http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/software_patent_autodesk.htm | first = Jim | last = Warren | date = May 10, 2014}} 11. ^{{cite web | publisher = The United States Patent and Trademark Office (US PTO) | work = San Jose hearings record | url = http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/hearings/software/sanjose/sj_warren.html | title = JIM WARREN, AUTODESK, INC. | date = January 27, 1994}} 12. ^{{cite book | title = Computers, freedom & privacy: a comprehensive, edited transcript of the First Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy, 1991 | url = http://www.worldcat.org/title/computers-freedom-privacy-a-comprehensive-edited-transcript-of-the-first-conference-on-computers-freedom-privacy-held-march-26-28-1991-in-burlingame-california/oclc/25141616 | first1 = Jim C | last1 = Warren | first2 = Jay | last2 = Thorwaldson | first3 = Bruce | last3 = Koball | location = Los Alamitos, California | publisher = IEEE Computer Society Press | year = 1991 }} 13. ^{{cite web | title = CFP'91 Index of Papers and Transcripts | publisher = Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility | year = 1991 | url = http://cpsr.org/prevsite/conferences/cfp91/home.html/}} 14. ^{{cite web | title = CFP'91 Introduction | first = Jim | last = Warren | date = June 17, 1991 | url = http://cpsr.org/prevsite/conferences/cfp91/intro.html/ | publisher = Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility}} 15. ^{{cite speech | title = The Constitution in Cyberspace: Law and Liberty Beyond the Electronic Frontier (CFP'91 Keynote Address) | first = Laurence H. | last = Tribe | url = http://www.sjgames.com/SS/tribe.html | event = First Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy | year = 1991}} 16. ^{{cite journal | title = Ten Years of Computers, Freedom and Privacy: A Personal Retrospective | first = Lorrie Faith | last = Cranor | url = http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=332193&dl=ACM&coll=DL | work = Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP '00): Challenging the Assumptions | pages = 11–15 | publisher = ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) | location = New York, NY, USA | year = 2000 | isbn = 1-58113-256-5 | doi=10.1145/332186.332193}} 17. ^{{cite web | publisher = California Assembly (1993-94) | title = A.B. No. 1624: Access by computer network – An act to add Section 10248 to the Government Code, relating to the Legislature | date = March 4, 1993 | url = http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_1624&sess=9394&house=B&author=assembly_member_bowen_%28principal_coauthor:_senator_torres%29 | accessdate = January 18, 2015}} 18. ^{{citation | title = Letter to California State Legislature from the Secretary of State, State of California | first = Bill | last = Jones | date = June 1, 2001 | url = http://www.sos.ca.gov/prd/SOS_report_to_legislature.pdf | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20101111142933/http://www.sos.ca.gov/prd/SOS_report_to_legislature.pdf | archivedate = November 11, 2010 | quote = This report is submitted pursuant to the provisions of Section 84602 (j) of the Government Code, related to the Online Disclosure Act of 1997. These provisions require the Secretary of State to report to the Legislature on the implementation and development of the Act, which mandates a system for the electronic transfer of campaign finance and lobbying payment information for disclosure on the Secretary of State's Internet web site. The Online Disclosure Act (Chapter 866, Statutes of 1997, as amended by Chapter 433, Statutes of 1999) directed the Secretary of State to develop a system allowing the use of computers and computer software to collect and transmit data for Internet display that previously was only available in paper format in a handful of locations. I am pleased to report that my office has complied with the Legislature's mandate, and that today millions of Californians now have direct computer access to detailed campaign contribution and expenditure information, and to the sources and amounts of money involved in lobbying state government.}} 19. ^{{cite web | publisher = California Senate (1997-98) | title = Bill No. 143, Senator Quentin Kopp: Public records | url = http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/97-98/bill/sen/sb_0101-0150/sb_143_cfa_19980818_204012_sen_floor.html | date = July 21, 1998}} 20. ^{{cite journal | title = Personal and Hobby Computing: An Overview | first = J. | last = Warren | publisher = IEEE |date=March 1977 | url = http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1646400&contentType=Journals+%26+Magazines&sortType%3Dasc_p_Sequence%26filter%3DAND%28p_IS_Number%3A34520%29 | magazine = Computer | volume = 10 | issue = 3 | pages = 10–22 | issn = 0018-9162 | doi = 10.1109/C-M.1977.217667}} 21. ^{{cite encyclopedia | title = Personal Computing | edition = 2nd | year = 1983 | encyclopedia = Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering | url = http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471383937.html}} Further reading
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