Bob Kerns
Retired
Corte Madera, California, United States
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Top SchoolBob Kerns is a retired software engineer with deep expertise in knowledge representation, rule engines, Lisp compilers, and virtual machines, drawing on a career that began at MIT in the 1970s and spans senior architect roles at Symbolics, DEC, Brightware/Firepond, and FICO. He has led technical architecture, development methodology, and team organization for commercial expert systems and knowledge-base products, and helped put AI on the web in the 1990s. Comfortable across symbolic mathematics, language design, and XML/Web Services, he has contributed to early open-source projects such as Maclisp, VAX/NIL, Macsyma/Maxima, and Emacs long before those ecosystems existed. Known for marrying research-level ideas with production-grade engineering, he excels at turning complex inference engines into practical, maintainable systems. Based in Corte Madera, California, he continues to advise and mentor teams from a perspective shaped by decades of pioneering work.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (130)
editor10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
quaternions10
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visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
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ai9
jsdoc9
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
BobKerns/jquery-tsv
Jul 2012 - Sep 2012
Contributions:115 commits in 1 month
BobKerns/observablehq-file-attachments
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
A facility (work-in-progress) to provide a more flexible access to ObservableHQ FileAttachment objects, plus virtualized equivalents.
Contributions:15 releases, 12 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 9 months
observablehqin-progressvirtualizedfacilityplus
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