Stephen Gilfus

Quick Facts

Full Name	Stephen Gilfus
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	May 24, 1970(1970-05-24)
Age	54
Birthplace	Pittsford
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Gemini

Stephen Gilfus Biography

Stephen Gilfus is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on May 24, 1970 in Pittsford, New York, United States.

The CourseInfo platform was technologically advanced as it was one of only a few relational database powered web based applications launched in the late 1990s. CourseInfo released several product versions including the “Teachers Toolbox”and its foundational first release the Interactive Learning Network v.1. The original product developed at Cornell University was deployed on a Linux BSD system, written in PERL, with an Apache web server, and leveraged MySQL as it’s relational database, with the front end UI of the system being accessed through a web browser.

One of the first of its kind to use a relational database with a web front end or a “true” web based application. These deployments are now known a LAMP web application software stack. The CourseInfo team had leveraged MySQL in 1996/1997 just a fe short years after the release of the original MySQL database system on May 23rd 1995. The Cornell team had unique access to the Cornell Theory Center now the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing and leveraged super computing power, one of the key pillars of the internet and ARPANET/NSFNET at the time. NSFNET connected the five advanced supercomputing centers (Princeton, Carnegie-Mellon, UCSD, Cornell, UIUC) to the Internet.

Stephen Gilfus Net Worth

Stephen Gilfus is one of the richest Entrepreneur from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Stephen Gilfus 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Blackboard was one of the first businesses to provide a free offering “Blackboard.com” for instructors to create free “CourseSites”. All of Blackboard technology for .com and related services were hosted onsite at 1899 L St NW in secure server rooms run by the company. So much so that the buildings owners had to install extra power to support the server rooms on the 11th floor, and add individual AC capability on the rooftop to support the server rooms.

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In 2001 the company (Blackboard Inc.) began to explore “mobile learning” initiatives and Stephen joined a Mobile Steering Committee established and led by the President and CEO of McGraw-Hill Ryerson to answer the question “What can ‘anytime, anywhere’ access to learning material contribute to the education experience?” Blackboard ended up buying Kayvon Beykpour’s company Terriblyclever out of Stanford to deploy Blackboard Mobile Technologies. Kayvon is now known as the founder of Periscope (app) purchased by Twitter.

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Steven Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Stephen Gilfus celebrates birthday on May 24 of every year.

From 2004 to mid-2008, Gilfus was head of Blackboard’s Global Education Consulting Practice where he built the services operations and led a team of professionals focused on providing strategic eLearning consulting, training and implementation services. Serving over 2200 academic institutions and implementing and integrating the Blackboard platform into PeopleSoft, Datatel, SunGard and other SIS applications as well as creating custom applications.