Mark S. Miller is an American computer scientist

Computer scientist

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. He is known for his work as one of the participants in the 1979 hypertext project known as Project Xanadu

Project Xanadu

Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. Administrators of Project Xanadu have declared it an improvement over the World Wide Web, with mission statement: "Today's popular software simulates paper...

; for inventing Miller Columns

Miller Columns

Miller columns are a browsing/visualization technique that can be applied to tree structures. The columns allow multiple levels of the hierarchy to be open at once, and provide a visual representation of the current location. It is closely related to techniques used earlier in the Smalltalk...

; as the co-creator of the Agoric Paradigm of market-based distributed secure computing; and the open-source coordinator of the E programming language. He also designed the Caja programming language.

Miller earned a BS in computer science

Computer science

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 from Yale

YALE

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 in 1980 and published his Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins University

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 PhD thesis in 2006. Previously Chief Architect with the Virus-Safe Computing Initiative at HP Labs

HP Labs

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, he is now a research scientist at Google

Google

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 and a member of the EcmaScript

ECMAScript

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(JavaScript) committee.

External links

• http://www.caplet.com home page with links to papers