Tantek Çelik

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Tantek Çelik
Çelik in 2019
Born
Nationality
  • American
  • Turkish
Alma materStanford University[3]
Known for
Scientific career
Fields
Apple Computer[1]
  • Microsoft
  • microformats.org[2]
  • Mozilla Corporation
  • Academic advisorsTerry Winograd (masters advisor)[citation needed]
    Websitewww.tantek.com

    Tantek Çelik is a

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    Career

    Çelik gained bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from

    Before working at Microsoft he worked in a variety of software engineer roles at

    Aladdin Systems purchased 6prime's main product REV releasing it as Flashback.[13]

    At Technorati, he led the adoption of better standards support (including

    microformats) throughout the company, including their website's front page.[14][15] He was also involved with the special Election 2004 section of the website, including writing the initial version.[citation needed] He serves as a founder at the Global Multimedia Protocols Group.[16]

    In December 2010[update], Çelik began working[17] on IndieWebCamp, an effort to coordinate a community of people to build tools to complement and eventually provide an alternative to social networking services like Twitter and Facebook.[18]

    He is the owner of the Twitter account @T.[19]

    References

    1. ^ a b "Tantek Celik - Chief Technologist, Technorati". Archived from the original on 2007-10-05.
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    3. ^ a b "Stanford Computer Science Masters Alumni". Stanford University. Archived from the original on 2008-03-08.
    4. S2CID 28672599
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    5. ^ "Mozilla hires open-standards guru Celik".
    6. ^ a b c d "Tantek Çelik, WaSP Emeritus". Web Standards Project. Archived from the original on 2015-03-21.
    7. ^ "Is Privacy Protection 'More Awesome Than Money'?". NPR.
    8. ^ Bos, Bert; Tantek Çelik; Ian Hickson; Håkon Wium Lie (19 July 2007). "Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification". W3C Technical Reports and Publications. World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
    9. ^ "W3C Technical Reports and Publications - view by editor". W3C Technical Reports and Publications. World Wide Web Consortium. 13 July 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
    10. ^ a b "Tantek Çelik on Mozilla & Microformats". The Big Web Show. April 26, 2012. Retrieved July 27, 2012.
    11. ^ HTML Working Group. "XHTML 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)". W3C. Retrieved 2007-02-06.
    12. ^ Hakon Wium Lie; Bert Bos. "Cascading Style Sheets, level 1". W3C. Retrieved 2007-02-06.
    13. ^ "6prime corporation website. Aladdin Systems acquires REV from 6prime corporation". Retrieved 2019-11-27.
    14. ^ "Tantek Çelik and Rohit Khare: The Progress and the Promise of Microformats - Knowledge@Wharton". Knowledge@Wharton. Retrieved 2017-09-13.
    15. ^ Çelik, Tantek. "Tantek's Thoughts". tantek.com. Retrieved 2017-09-13.
    16. ^ "Tantek Çelik, A List Apart Speaker". Archived from the original on 2011-06-25. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
    17. ^ "IndieWeb Timeline". Retrieved March 26, 2019.
    18. ^ Finley, Klint (14 August 2014). "Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet". Wired.
    19. ^ "Twitter from @A to @Z". Theatlantic.com. 19 January 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2020.

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