Larry Masinter
Project Lead at Interlisp.org
Los Altos, California, United States
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Top SchoolLarry Masinter is a veteran computer scientist and project lead with over four decades of experience shaping web architecture, document formats, and standards. He has driven interoperability and long-term archiving work at Adobe and led internet architecture and standards efforts at AT&T, W3C TAG, and Xerox PARC, tracing roots back to early AI and Interlisp systems. Larry blends deep protocol and metadata expertise (HTTP, URLs, MIME, PDF) with practical engineering, having influenced both research-era toolchains and modern web standards. He currently leads Interlisp.org, maintaining a rare continuity between the workstation-era software world and today’s web architecture debates. Known for a mix of rigorous academic training (PhD Stanford) and hands-on systems craftsmanship, he also brings an uncommon personal perspective on technology’s human side, shaped by long-term interests in VR, online education, and living with Parkinson’s.
12 years of coding experience
45 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Mathematics, BA, Mathematics at Rice UniversityPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Stanford University
French
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Github Skills (69)
hugo-theme10
url-parsing10
eventsource10
lisp-interpreter10
storage10
common-lisp10
url-parser10
virtual-machine10
twine10
lisp10
javascript9
html9
hugo9
websocket9
canvas9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Interlisp/medley
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
The main repo for the Medley Interlisp project. Wiki, Issues are here. Other repositories include maiko (the VM implementation) and Interlisp.github.io (web site sources)
Contributions:57 releases, 384 reviews, 429 commits in 2 years 6 months
repositoriesweb-sitemain-repointerlispproject-wiki
Interlisp/old.Interlisp.github.io
Jul 2020 - Jul 2022
Web site for Interlisp.org
Contributions:3 reviews, 120 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years
interlispweb-site
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