Jean-François Groff

Jean-François Groff is a telecommunication engineer, and one of the key figures in the early development of the World Wide Web at CERN. He worked in close collaboration with Tim Berners-Lee, and helped define the HTTP protocol and HTML language.^[1][2][3] Groff is also the CTO and founder of Studio KOH,^[4][5] and CEO of Mobino, a mobile payments company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.^[6]

Background

Groff was first introduced to computers as a young boy, around 7 or 8 years of age, by his father, a computer engineer for Saint-Gobain. Young Groff began developing his programming skills on the personal computers that were available to him at home, including Amstrad, and later Atari computers.^[1] He graduated with a telecommunications degree from Telecom Paris.

Works

Groff co-authored an article titled The World-Wide Web: The Information Universe with Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau and Bernd Pollermann, first published in 1992 and again in 2010 in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking.^[7][8]

References

1. Groff (Jean-François) Oral History - 102702210. 2009-11-11. Retrieved 2021-03-27. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
2. "Jean-François Groff – The Anthology of Swiss Legal Culture". The Anthology of Swiss Legal Culture. 9 July 2017. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
3. "Web@30: Reliving history and rethinking the future". CERN. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
4. "Studio KOH". AlleyWatch. Archived from the original on 2021-03-05. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
5. "KOH". KOH. 2021-03-24. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
6. "Jean-François Groff - Future Banking". Mobino: transforming transactions. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
7. Berners-Lee, T.J.; Cailliau, Robert; Groff, Jean-Francois; Pollermann, Bernd (1992). "Computer Networks and ISDN Systems". The World-wide Web. 25 (4–5). Elsevier BV: 454–459. doi:10.1016/0169-7552(92)90039-s. ISSN 0169-7552.
8. Berners-Lee, T.J.; Cailliau, Robert; Groff, Jean-Francois; Pollermann, Bernd (2010). "Computer Networks and ISDN Systems". The World-wide Web. 20 (4). Elsevier BV: 461–471. doi:10.1108/10662241011059471.