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.
14 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
Stackoverflow
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javascript
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eclipse
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Github Skills (106)
editor10
electron10
typescript10
quaternions10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
javascript9
ai9
jsdoc9
midas9
command-line-interface9
eclipse9
mermaid9
llm9
observablehq9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
BobKerns/jquery-tsv
Jul 2012 - Sep 2012
Contributions:115 commits in 1 month
BobKerns/rollup-plugin-debug
May 2019 - Dec 2022
Debugging tools for rollup configurations.
Contributions:98 commits, 13 PRs, 27 pushes in 3 years 6 months
debugging
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