Jonathan Rees's home page

This page is about professional activities. See my personal home page for other material.

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Current positions

• I am a Principal Scientist at Science Commons, which is a project of Creative Commons.
• I'm also a Research Affiliate of the Mathematics and Computation group in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
• I'm also treasurer of the Cambridge Entomological Club.

Activities as of May 2008

• Neurocommons project
• Naming systems for science
• W3C Technical Architecture Group
• HTTP Link: header
• Evolution of formal languages

Experience and areas of interest

• From May 2002 to November 2005 I was a Lead Software Engineer at Millennium Pharmaceuticals working on protein interaction networks and associated analytical tools.
• I have worked in the software industry, first at DEC and then at several high tech startups.
• I have been interested in programming languages for a while, with a particular interest in the Lisp family of languages.
• I've done some work related to science.
• I've done a few other things, mostly connected with graphics, mathematics, and logic.

Publications

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Software

• Scheme 48
• T Project
• Other software

Credentials

• PhD EECS MIT, 1995 (Project MAC). Advisor: Gerald Jay Sussman. Committee: Hal Abelson and Tom Knight.
• SM EECS MIT, 1989
• BS Computer Science Yale, 1981