Carl Malamud ( Born: 1959 ) is a leading force in getting government data online and in creating public works for the Internet. He was the founder of the Internet Multicasting Service, the nonprofit group known for creating the first Internet radio station, for putting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR database on-line, and for creating the Internet 1996 World Exposition. Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Look up Public works in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Internet radio (aka e-Radio) is an audio broadcasting service transmitted via the Internet. ... The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, commonly referred to as the SEC, is the United States governing body which has primary responsibility for overseeing the regulation of the securities industry. ... EDGAR, the Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC). Not all SEC filings by public companies are available...
Carl is the author of eight books, including Exploring the Internet and A World's Fair. He was a visiting professor at the MIT Media Laboratory and was the former chairman of the Internet Software Consortium. He also was the co-founder of Invisible Worlds, was a fellow at the Center for American Progress, and was a board member of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation[1][2]. The MIT Media Lab engages in education and research in the digital technology used for expression and communication. ... Internet Software Consortium (ISC) was an organization that was founded by Rick Adams and Paul Vixie with funding from UUNET to develop and support a number of reference implementations of Internet software. ... The Center for American Progress is a progressive American political policy research and advocacy organization. ... The Mountain View office shared by the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation The Mozilla Foundation (abbreviated MF or MoFo) is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. ...
Most recently, he challenged the information management policy of Smithsonian Networks[3], and convinced CSPAN to liberalize their video archive access policy[4].
References
^ Mitchell Baker's post announcing Malamud as a new board member at the Mozilla Foundation[1]
^ Mitchell Baker's post announcing Malamud's departure from the Mozilla Foundation[2]
^ OReilly story on Smithsonian [3], Carl Malamud's notes [4]
^ Reported on the James Fallows weblog [5], Carl Malamud's notes [6]
CarlMalamud (Born: 1959) is a leading force in getting government data online and in creating public works for the Internet.
He was the founder of the Internet Multicasting Service, the nonprofit group known for creating the first Internet radio station, for putting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR database on-line, and for creating the Internet 1996 World Exposition.
Carl is the author of eight books, including Exploring the Internet and A World's Fair.
Malamud joined UCSF in 1945 as an assistant professor and established the Laboratory of Neuropathology in the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute at UCSF.
Malamud was born January 28, 1903 in a village near Kishinev, Russia, one of seven children.
Malamud is survived by his son Ernie of Nevada City, his daughter Edith Malamud of San Francisco, and three grandchildren: CarlMalamud of Sonoma County, Yvette Ozer of Oakland and Bruce Malamud of London, England.
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