Gene Kan
Gene Kan (September 6, 1976 — June 29, 2002) was a
protocol. Kan worked together with Spencer Kimball on the program called "gnubile" licensed under the GNU General Public License. Kan graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997 with a major in electrical engineering and computer science [citation needed], and was a member of the student club the eXperimental Computing Facility
(XCF).
In June 2000, when Kan was 24, he formed a
stock options. The acquisition became part of the JXTA
project at Sun. Kan joined Sun as an employee, and continued to work with the technology.
Kan was relatively well known in internet circles for a testimony he gave in July 2000 at the
CEO Fred Ehrlich, and others also gave testimony at the hearing. In his account, as the United States Senate decides the fate of companies like Napster, he stressed that "technology moves forward and leaves the stragglers behind," and that "the adopters always win, and the stalwarts always lose".[3] Kan was advocate of peer-to-peer (P2P) computing and some credit him, along with other Gnutella pioneers, as its originator.[4] He argued that it is part of an emergent technological area called distributive computing.[1]
On June 29, 2002, he committed suicide. The cause of death was a single gunshot wound to the head. Kan was 25 years old. Prior to taking his life, Kan updated an electronic copy of his resume hosted on a University of California, Berkeley server to read "Summary: Sad example of a human being. Specializing in failure." An independent documentary film was planned for Gene Kan after he died, but it never started production.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b Rodrigues, Jorge Nascimento (2001-01-18). "Gene Kan: La Computación Distribuida es un Área Tecnológica Excitante". Mujeres de Empresa (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2019-05-08.
- ^ Senate Judiciary Committee, Statement of Gene Kan, Gnutella developer, Founder InfraSearch, Inc., 9 July 2000. Archived April 14, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Darke, Tiffanie. "The 1990s: When Technology Upended Our World". HISTORY. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
- ISBN 9780672323669.
External links
- Wired News: Quiet, Sad Death of Net Pioneer
- Time.com: The digital dozen
- MercuryNews.com:Life of highs and lows ends in suicide for Net visionary
- cNet News.com:Gnutella pioneer Gene Kan dies
- Yahoo links
- Jorge Nascimento Rodrigues; Paulo Buchinho (18 January 2001). "O "puto" do P2P: "Computação distribuída é uma área tecnológica excitante"" [The "kid" of P2P: "Distributed computing is an exciting area of technology"] (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2 March 2001. Spanish version