| Nathaniel Borenstein | |
| Born | September 23, 1957 |
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| Education | Grinnell College, Deep Springs College, Ohio State University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Occupation | Computer Scientist |
| Employer | IBM Corporation |
| Known for | e-mail, MIME, Internet standards |
| Title | Chief Open Standards Strategist and Distinguished Engineer |
Nathaniel Borenstein (born September 23, 1957) is one of the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internet electronic mail.[1]
Currently Chief Open Standards Strategist and Distinguished Engineer at IBM, Borenstein was founder of NetPOS.com[2] and First Virtual Holdings, called "the first cyberbank" by the Smithsonian Institution. He received his B.A. in Mathematics and Religious Studies from Grinnell College, while he earned a M.S. and a Ph.D from Carnegie Mellon University. He also attended Deep Springs College, California (1975-76), Ohio State University (1974-75), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (1978-79).
He is author of Programming As If People Mattered: Friendly Programs, Software Engineering, and Other Noble Delusions (Princeton University Press, 1994) ISBN 0691037639.
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Personal life
Borenstein lives with his wife, Trina, in Ann Arbor and Greenbush, Michigan; they have four grown daughters. 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.[3]
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
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