Jim White
Vice President
Telescript Technology

Jim invented and codesigned Telescript, which introduced the mobile agent
paradigm; "wrote the book" on international standards for electronic mail as
the CCITT editor of X.400 (1984) and the CCITT special rapporteur for X.400
(1988); invented and codesigned ASN.1, the specification and encoding language
of OSI, and ROS, its remote procedure call protocol; invented and pioneered
the use of the RPC paradigm first at SRI International and later at Xerox; and
wrote the network software for UCSB, the first operational host of the
Arpanet, which grew to become the Internet. Jim has a masters degree in
computer engineering from Stanford University.