Thomas Bruce
Director Emeritus at African Legal Information Institute
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Bruce is a pioneering web and legal-informatics leader with over three decades of experience building open-access legal information systems, including authoring the first Windows web browser and founding the Legal Information Institute. As Director Emeritus of LII and a long-time applied-research director, he has shaped metadata, semantic-web, and search approaches that make law more understandable to the public and businesses worldwide. He combines software engineering and project management with public policy savvy, advising global initiatives like AfricanLII and serving on international advisory boards. His background in theatre stage management and an MFA from Yale contribute an unusual strength in coordinating complex, multidisciplinary productions and technical teams.
16 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
Ithaca High SchoolMFA, Stage management, MFA, Stage management at Yale University School of DramaBA, BA at Yale University
French, German
Github Skills (15)
bioinformatics10
genomics10
perl10
code-behind10
rooting9
nodes8
large-scale3
scale2
structures1
hash1
ordered1
generic-programming1
nim-language1
hashmap1
slice1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tomfy/JS_FactorSquarePuzzles
Nov 2017 - Mar 2024
Contributions:13 pushes in 6 years 5 months
tomfy/mcmc_toy
Mar 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:58 pushes in 6 years 5 months
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