Bill Kennedy (computer scientist)


William P. "Bill" Kennedy, born 1951, is the former editor-in-chief of A+ Publishing, including A+ magazine , and PC Games magazine. Kennedy was an early participant in Real World Interface along with Grinnell More, inventor of the PackBot. When RWI combined with Colin Engle, Joe Jones and Helen Greiner of ISRobotics to form iRobot. Kennedy went on to co-found, along with CEO Jeanne Dietsch, ActivMedia Robotics where he led development efforts for the Pioneer series, the reference platform for research robots. He served as chief technical officer of MobileRobots Inc. until the company was sold in 2010
Bill Kennedy is co-author, with Chuck Musciano, of HTML: The Definitive Guide and HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide by O'Reilly Media, This classic HTML reference guide was published in 12 languages; the English version went through six editions.

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