Robert McCool

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Robert McCool
Born1973 (age 50–51)
Alma mater
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Employers
Known for
AwardsIMSA 2007 Alumni Trailblazer[1]
Websitewww-ksl.stanford.edu/people/robm/

Robert Martin McCool (born 1973), more commonly known as Rob McCool, is a software developer and architect.[2][3][4][5]

McCool was the author of the original

high school at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (class of 1991) and Robert was awarded its Alumni Trailblazer Award at its inaugural award event during its 20th anniversary celebration on April 20, 2007.[1]

One of Robert McCool's many contributions was in drafting the initial specification of the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), in collaboration with others on the www-talk mailing list, and providing a reference implementation of CGI in version 1.0 of the NCSA HTTPd web server.[7] The CGI specification, introduced in December 1993, turned out to be a key element in making the World Wide Web dynamic and interactive.

McCool was an early

Netscape Enterprise Server (e.g., NSAPI
) and other server-side systems.

Later, at Stanford University, he co-authored the TAP[8] and KDD systems for automatic augmentation of human-generated web content. He is also the author of various journal and conference articles pertaining to semantic search,[9] semantic web,[10][11] and knowledge provenance.

McCool lives in Menlo Park, California.

References

  1. ^ a b "News - Awards - Landing Page - IMSA Alumni". Archived from the original on 2016-03-09.
  2. ^ Robert Martin McCool at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ Rob Martin McCool author profile page at the ACM Digital Library Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ Mccool, Rob's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. Microsoft Academic
  6. ^ "NCSA HTTPd Acknowledgements". Archived from the original on 2009-04-16.
  7. doi:10.17487/RFC3875. RFC 3875
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  8. doi:10.1016/S1389-1286(03)00225-1
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  9. ISBN 1-58113-680-3
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  10. S2CID 195915060
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  11. doi:10.1109/MIC.2006.18
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