Ian Clarke (computer scientist)
Ian Clarke ( born February 16, 1977 in Dublin) is an Irish computer scientist and the developer and coordinator of the peer-to- peer network Freenet. He is also the developer of Dijjer, a distributed P2P web cache, which is to reduce bandwidth load of congested sites.
Curriculum vitae
When you visit the secondary school Ian Clarke won the first prize (English National Competition for young scientists Ireland ) for a project of artificial intelligence in the "Ireland 's national Young Scientists Competition". The following year he again won the first prize when he developed a mathematical method to create accurate maps of translucent objects.
1995 Clarke moved to Scotland to study computer science and artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh. During his studies he spent two years as president of the " Edinburgh University 's Artificial Intelligence Society " (English for Society for Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh ) and revived this organization.
In 1999, he filed a labor A Distributed Decentralised Information Storage and Retrieval System ( English for " A distributed decentralized information storage and retrieval system " ), which completed his degree Bachelor of Science ( Honours) in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Around July 1999, he published his paper on the Internet and invited the Internet community an implement his idea as free software: A program that would allow a unzensierbares forum for free Internet communications. This program was to Freenet, which appeared in its first version 0.1 in March 2000.
In 1999 he made at his university graduated with honors, and was launched in the summer at Logica UK in the Space Division as an IT consultant.
Clarke took advantage of the high public perception that Freenet learned after the release of version 0.1 in March 2000 to spread its ideal of complete freedom of communication. He became a well-known critic of Internet control in the hands of governments and companies and by progressive inflammatory misuse of copyright. Due to the interest of the technical community to Freenet Clarke also had the opportunity to speak in various forums, including at Stanford University, at Microsoft Research and the UCLA Center Washington.
In August 2000, Clarke moved to Santa Monica, California, and co-founded his first commercial company Uprizer Inc. As Technical Director, it was Clarke's intention to explore commercial applications for the Freenet technology. In January 2001 Uprizer brought 4 million U.S. dollars financing from investors, including Intel and Kline Hawkes & Co.
In September 2002, Clarke founded Cematics LLC. Cematics has developed a range of products including Locutus, a P2P search application for enterprises; WhittleBit, a search engine that learns from user feedback; and 3D17, a web-based collaborative editing tool.
In September 2003, Ian Clarke was chosen by Technology Review magazine of the MIT as one of the Top 100 Young Innovators of 2003 ( one of the 100 tips innovators under 35 years old in 2003).
In October 2003, Clarke moved with Cematics to Edinburgh, Scotland, back. He spends his time with the coordination of Freenet and as Managing Director of Cematics Ltd, and he continues to speak publicly on topics such as copyrights, distributed communication systems and the ideology of free communication.
In 2004 he began the development of Dijjer.
On 29 July 2005 Clarke spoke at the 13th DEF CON, the world's largest annual hacker event, along with Oskar Sandberg over routing in a darknet, especially in relation to Freenet.