{"id":394,"date":"2009-01-01T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/uncategorized\/about-myself"},"modified":"2024-01-12T14:12:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T22:12:43","slug":"about-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/about-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"About Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Note: Very much out of date<\/strong>. Check my home page at j12t.org<\/a><\/strong> instead.<\/p>\n\n\n

Professional<\/h3>\n

I’m the founder and CEO of NetMesh Inc.<\/a>, a Silicon-Valley-based startup company that has been developing a novel type of software platform called InfoGrid<\/a>. In the process, I came up with the idea of using URLs to identify people, originally calling it LID\u2122 \u2014 for Light-Weight Identity\u2122. This idea is now taking the world by storm and commonly called OpenID\u00ae<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Previously, I was the founder and CEO of a company called Aviatis Corp., which developed distributed engineering collaboration tools.<\/p>\n

I came to California in 1995 to work for Integrated Systems Inc., a real-time\/embedded software company (now acquired by Wind River Systems<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Prior to that, at the Forschungszentrum Informatik<\/a> (Karlsruhe, Germany) I consulted for a then fairly large consortium of the German automotive industry called MSR<\/a>, which worked on design chain information and process integration. Immediately after graduating, I spent half of my time with BMW research and engineering in Munich and half with the Universities of Erlangen (LRS<\/a>) and Karlsruhe (ITIV<\/a>), both in Germany.<\/p>\n

For some reason, I’ve found myself in the middle of various industry initiatives for some years, from CDIF and the beginning of the UML<\/a> to an real-time analysis and design group that I started in the Object Management Group<\/a>. More recently, I was one of the two co-initators of the Yadis<\/a> URL-based meta-data discovery framework. I was a founding member of the board of the directors of the OpenID Foundation<\/a>. I also co-initiated, with Microsoft and Verisign, the OSIS<\/a> interoperability group.<\/p>\n

I hold the degrees of Diplom-Ingenieur Elektrotechnik (master’s EE) from the University of Erlangen, and Doktor-Ingenieur Elektrotechnik (doctorate EE) from the University of Karlsruhe. I’m also the sole inventor on two granted US patents.<\/p>\n

In 2001, I became a World Economic Forum<\/a> “Technology Pioneer” in Davos, Switzerland.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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