Bob Frankston
IEEE Fellow And DIstinguished Lecturer And Columnist at Computing and Connectivity
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBob Frankston is a veteran technologist, IEEE Fellow, and distinguished lecturer whose career spans pioneering work in personal computing, software entrepreneurship, and decades of thought leadership on Internet architecture. As co‑founder and president of Software Arts and long‑time participant in computing and connectivity efforts since the 1960s, he blends hands‑on engineering with applied philosophy—most notably exploring the End‑to‑End principle. He writes and edits for IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine and serves as a longstanding columnist and board contributor to the IEEE Consumer Technology Society, shaping industry discourse. Based in Newton, Massachusetts, he mentors startups and civic tech initiatives and has a deep MIT grounding in electrical engineering, computer science, and mathematics. Not obvious from titles alone: he combines historical perspective from early computing communities with a contrarian, systems‑level view that surfaces policy and design implications often missed by engineers.
11 years of coding experience
bs bs ms ee cs ee math, bs bs ms ee cs ee math at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyStony Brook University
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Github Skills (200)
expressjs10
windows10
apng10
visual-studio10
home-assistant10
javascript10
nodejs-server10
type-check10
linux10
editor10
superset10
js10
cli10
color-picker10
npm-cli10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
BobFrankston/lzlan
Dec 2018 - Aug 2022
Contributions:57 commits, 41 pushes in 3 years 8 months
BobFrankston/C-Site
Aug 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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