Nathaniel Borenstein

Nathaniel Borenstein
Nathaniel S. Borenstein
Born September 23, 1957(1957 -09-23)
Education Grinnell College, Deep Springs College, Ohio State University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Carnegie Mellon University
Occupation Computer Scientist
Employer Mimecast
Known for e-mail, MIME, Internet standards
Title Chief Scientist

Nathaniel S. Borenstein (born September 23, 1957) is an American computer scientist. He is one of the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internet electronic mail.[1]

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Biography

Borenstein received a B.A. in Mathematics and Religious Studies from Grinnell College in 1980, and a Ph.D in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1985. Previously he attended Ohio State University (1974–75), Deep Springs College, California (1975–76), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (1978–79). [1] While at CMU, he co-developed the email component of the Andrew Project. The Andrew Message System was the first multi-media electronic mail system to become used outside of a laboratory.[2] In 1989 he became a member of technical staff at Bellcore (Bell Communications Research). There he developed a series of standards so the various electronic mail systems could exchange multimedia messages in a common way.

Borenstein was founder of First Virtual Holdings in 1994, called "the first cyberbank" by the Smithsonian Institution, and NetPOS.com[3] in 2000. He worked at IBM as distinguished engineer starting in 2002 at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He then became chief scientist at email management company Mimecast in June 2010.[4]

He is author of Programming As If People Mattered: Friendly Programs, Software Engineering, and Other Noble Delusions (Princeton University Press, 1994) ISBN 0691037639. He received the New York University Olive Branch Award for writing about peace in 1990, for an essay about his brief experience as a NATO consultant.[5]

His mentors include his doctoral advisor and the director of the Andrew project, Jim Morris, and Einar Stefferud, who initiated the MIME and First Virtual work.

Personal life

Borenstein lives with his wife, Trina, in Ann Arbor and Greenbush, Michigan; they have four grown daughters and twin granddaughters. He has been a vegetarian since 1972. He is a pacifist, named his web server and wireless network "ahimsa", and has worked for a mix of pacifist, leftist, and libertarian causes.[1]

He was a child prodigy, reading adult books at the age of 2, and doing college work in the third grade, before being restricted to studies at his own grade level beginning in fourth grade. In 1973, with the help of the ACLU, he became the first US student ever to be awarded money damages from his principal and school board, in Bexley, Ohio, for violating his freedom of speech by sending him home for wearing a black armband on the second anniversary, in 1972, of the Kent State shootings.

Authored Requests For Comments (RFCs)

  • RFC 1344 – Implications of MIME for Internet Mail Gateways
  • RFC 1524 – A User Agent Configuration Mechanism for Multimedia Mail Format Information
  • RFC 2045 – MIME Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies
  • RFC 2046 – MIME Part Two: Media Types
  • RFC 2049 – MIME Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples

References

  1. ^ a b c "NSB Home Page". web site, including CV. http://www.guppylake.com/~nsb/. Retrieved May 3, 2011. 
  2. ^ N. S. Borenstein (December 1996). "CMU's Andrew project: a retrospective". Communications of the ACM 39 (12). doi:10.1145/272682.272717. ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/AUIS/PAPERS/atk/Boren.CACM. 
  3. ^ "Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Ph.D.: Co-Founder and Advisor". NetPOS.com web site. http://www.netpos.com/index2.php?page=2&s=nborenstein. Retrieved May 3, 2011. 
  4. ^ McFadden, Sean (June 21, 2010). "Human Capital: People on the Move". Boston Business Journal. http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2010/06/21/daily2.html. Retrieved May 3, 2011. 
  5. ^ Borenstein, Nathaniel. "A Spy in the House of War: My Life as a NATO Collaborator". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. http://guppylake.com/~nsb/WarSpy/. Retrieved April, 1989. 

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