Tim Howes

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tim Howes
Occupation	Computer Scientist
Date Of Birth	Sep 21, 1963(1963-09-21)
Age	61
Birthplace	Ann Arbor
Country	United States
Birth City	Michigan
Horoscope	Virgo

Tim Howes Biography

Tim Howes is one of the most popular and richest Computer Scientist who was born on September 21, 1963 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Tim Howes (born September 21 1963) is an engineer of software as well as an entrepreneur and writer. He was the creator of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) The Internet standard used to connect directory servers. He was a co-founder of the enterprise software company Opsware as well as the company that makes internet browsers Rockmelt and the children’s education business, Know Yourself. He is co-author of two books, many Internet RFCs, and is the holder of numerous patents.

Then, in October of 2008 Howes was fired by Hewlett-Packard in order to create RockMelt along with Eric Vishria. In August of 2013, Rockmelt was acquired by Yahoo and Howes was hired by Yahoo! as the Vice President for Engineering of Yahoo’s Mobile and Emerging Products Group. He resigned from Yahoo in Decemberof 2014.

In May 2015, Howes was named Chief Technology Officer for ClearStory Data, a leading cloud-based provider of fast-cycle data intelligence based on Apache Spark. ClearStory Data was acquired by Alteryx in April of 2019.

In November 2018, Howes joined Facebook as Director of Engineering in Facebook’s AI Infrastructure group, where he worked on improving AI developer experience.

In 1999, just following the acquisition of Netscape by AOL purchased Netscape, Howes left AOL to co-found Loudcloud together with Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz and In Sik Rhee. Howes was the head of the engineering department and was responsible for the development of Opsware Loudcloud’s automated data center software that helps accelerate the development of websites. He was honored in InfoWorld for his work in the year 2000, as being among their top 10 entrepreneurs in the field of e-business. The year 2002 saw Loudcloud changed businesses, and later changed into Opsware. In Loudcloud & Opsware, Howes was CTO and Executive Vice President. In the year 2005 Howes has been named one of the “Top 25 CTO’s of 2005” by the magazine InfoWorld. In 2007, Opsware was bought from Hewlett-Packard in exchange for $1.65 billion. Howes was appointed CTO and Vice President of HP Software.

Tim Howes Net Worth

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

When he was at the University of Michigan, Howes was given the task of creating an all-campus directory service using the X.500 standard. X.500 directories provide information about networks resources, making the process of finding them and using them more convenient for network administrators and users. However accessing X.500 records necessitated a complete X.500 server, and there was never the X.500 client. This resulted in Howes to collaborate on the creation of DIXIE the directory client that can access X.500 directories (as as contributing significant improvements to enhance the efficiency of Quipu directories). This work was the foundation for his Ph.D. dissertation and was the foundation of LDAP the standard-based variant of DIXIE for servers and clients. The first public version of LDAP was released in 1993.

In 1996, shortly after joining Netscape as director administrator, Howes received the honor of being named among the top 25 Network Technology Drivers by Network Computing magazine. The year 1997 was the year that LDAP version 3 won the PC Magazine’s Technical Excellence in Networking award. Howes was also recognized as a Netscape Fellow Netscape’s most prestigious engineering honour, and then elevated to Chief Technology Officer at Netscape’s Server Products Division.

In 2012, Howes co-founded Know Yourself, a public benefit corporation based in Oakland, California, dedicated to making self literacy a vital part of early education. The company designs and sells products that teach kids about their anatomy, physiology, and psychology, including activity kits, books, comics, and various apparel and lifestyle products. Howes serves as CEO.

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Tim Ranked on the list of most popular Computer Scientist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Tim Howes celebrates birthday on September 21 of every year.