Kevcom

What's in a name? I've worn many hats. Past titles include:

Past titles include:

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Chief Designer
InMobi

Chief Technology Officer / Co-founder
ChipIn / Sprout

Digital Librarian
The World Wide Web History Project

Webmaster / Member of Technical Staff
CommerceNet

Chief Simpleton (Interface Designer)
Webify Solutions

Creative Director
Commerce One.net

Senior Software Engineer/Researcher
Commerce One

Webmaster/Graphic Designer
VeriFone/EIT

Lecturer/Webmaster
Honolulu Community College

To improve the Internet by making it easier to use and communicate with...
and
...to explore the boundaries between art and technology.

Duty now for the future!

2011	ChipIn/Sprout is acquired by InMobi
2009	ChipIn/Sprout receives patent US7565332 for "Method and system for providing a widget usable in affiliate marketing"
2008	Sprout launched at DEMO 08, presentation wins "Demo God" award (January) Sprout featured on cover of PC World magazine ("100 Incredibly Useful Web Sites", November), campaigns for Sony Pictures, Pink, and Bloc Party launch
2007	ChipIn's Facebook games ("Vampires vs. Werewolves", "Pirates vs. Ninjas") sold to Buddy Media Co-founded Sprout (WYSIWYG widget builder)
2006	With Marty Tenenbaum: AI Meets Web 2.0: Building the Web of Tomorrow, Today, published in AI Magazine (50th anniversary of artificial intelligence issue) (December)
2005	Co-founded ChipIn (social ecommerce startup)
2004	Joined CommerceNet's zLab (decentralization research) Joined Bonsai Development Corporation (RFID startup) Color Picker (SVG application)
2003	Designed packaging and promotional materials for Makana's album Ki Ho'alu: Journey of Hawaiian Slack Key Developed the Forward Foundation event calendar (in progress) */ ?>
2002	Joined Webify Solutions with Marty Tenenbaum and Manoj Saxena (Web services startup, acquired by IBM) Designed and helped engineer Makana's album Koi Au
2001	Helped launch HIT Wall Studios Founded The Forward Foundation */ ?> Researcher for next-generation ecommerce technology, Commerce One
2000	Creative Director, Commerce One.net (formerly MarketSite.net) Worked on Commerce One MarketSite.net, version 3.0 Contributed to Commerce One's corporate identity/rebranding effort
1999	Developed interface for Commerce One's MarketSite.net, versions 1.0 and 2.0
1998	CNgroup changes name to Veo Systems, focuses on XML-based ecommerce Developed interface for the XML-based Seitai Procurement System (with NTT) Developed the earliest core architecture documents for the Veo (XML) Server (with Marty Tenenbaum and Bart Meltzer) CNgroup acquired by Commerce One Senior Software Engineer, Commerce One
1997	Developed interface for vWallet, Verifone's consumer ewallet application, patents US05815657, US05963924, US06016484 VeriFone acquired by Hewlett-Packard CNgroup founded at CommerceNet by Marty Tenenbaum and Asim Abdullah as a startup incubator With Marty Tenenbaum and Tripatinder Chowdhry: Eco System: An Internet Commerce Architecture (cover feature), published in IEEE Computer, May 1997 The World Wide Web History Project (in progress) Footsteps (digital library software, in progress)
1996	EIT acquired by VeriFone Sixth International World Wide Web Conference poster and proceedings art Co-chair, World Wide Web History Day at WWW6 VRML Consortium logo Ewgie (chat system, unsupported) VeriFone Internet Commerce web artwork and design (no longer online) GraphicFont (Java font tool)
1995	Apache server icons IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) logo VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) logo SWISH (search engine/indexer) From Webspace to Cyberspace The Browser Tuneup (early HTML 3.0 test) Contributor: Jones Education Network web artwork and design; first Web-based cable TV schedule Contributor: Software.net corporate identity and web artwork Contributor: BankOne web prototype programming Contributor: National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) design, layout, and programming Contributor: Pacific Bell Guide to Atlanta layout and programming Contributor: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 1.0 specification, cited in Microsoft patent US5860073 (1/12/1999, Style sheets for publishing system) Invited presenter (Why I Don't Use HTML Extensions) at the W3C's first working group, the Style Sheet Workshop, INRIA, France
1994	Enterprise Integration Technologies web (no longer online) Red spherical bullets ( ) Design and layout of the MBONE Information Web CommerceNet web artwork and design; first business use of click-tracking Internet Shopping Network web artwork and design; precursor to cookies Secure Mosaic security icons and animations; first secure browser Focus:HOPE web design, layout, and programming WWWWAIS (search engine gateway) Hypermail (mail to HTML convertor, C version, cited in AT&T patent US05905863 (5/18/1999, Finding an e-mail message to which another e-mail message is a response)
1993	Lecturer/Webmaster, Honolulu Community College Honolulu Community College logo Set up first hypermedia campus-wide information system on the Web (May) Campus map, dinosaur exhibit, MPEG gallery, publications, interactive geographical map "Transparent" images, graphic fonts, graphic horizontal rules, narrated exhibits Mapper (imagemap) Getstats (Web server log analyzer) Entering the World Wide Web: A Guide to Cyberspace Mosaic for X icons

2004	Nominee, "Best Album Cover Design", Na Hoku Awards
2002	Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Hawaii
1997	Nominee, Cool Site of the Year (for www.webhistory.org)
1995	Best Tutorial Award, Third International World Wide Web Conference
1994	World Wide Web Hall of Fame, Best of the Web '94 - presented at the First International World Wide Web Conference

Places I've spoken at include:

"The Once And Future Web", the 10th Anniversary of the first Web server in the United States, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), 2001	KHVH 830 AM radio ("Your Computer Hour with Peter Kay"), 2001 Honolulu, Hawaii
TIGR Awards 2000 Honolulu, Hawaii	Fifth International World Wide Web Conference, Paris, France
Third International World Wide Web Conference, Darmstadt, Germany	Second International World Wide Web Conference, Chicago, Illinois
SIGWEB University of California at Berkeley	Xplor '95 Phoenix, Arizona
CALS Expo (1995) Long Beach, California	Web World (1995) Florida, Santa Clara, Chicago, and Boston
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Interlab '97) Oak Ridge, Tennessee	The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Interlab '94 and '95), Copper Mountain and Boulder, Colorado
IPMA (International Publishing Management Association) CON '95 Nashville, Tennesee	Dataforeningen i Sverige (Swedish Information Technology group) Stockholm, Sweden
Santa Clara University Santa Clara, California	Ameritech Chicago, Illinois
CommerceNet training seminar series Stanford, California	WHUS 91.7 FM radio Connecticut
W3C Style Sheet Workshop INRIA, France	Logitech Fremont, California
Digital Library Seminar Series University of California at Berkeley	Xerox PARC Palo Alto, California
German National Radio (DLF)	KHON TV Morning Show Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu Community College 2002 Commencement Speech Waikiki Shell, Honolulu, Hawaii	KORL 690 AM radio ("Burt Lum's Rough Take"), 2004 Honolulu, Hawaii
Hawaii Public Radio, KIPO 89.3 FM ("ThinkTech Hawaii"), 2005 Honolulu, Hawaii

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