Christopher Ferris
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| Christopher Ferris | |
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| Born | |
| 🏡 Residence | Boynton Beach, Florida |
| 🏳️ Nationality |  United States |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 👔 Employer | IBM |
| Known for | Hyperledger open source code community co-leader |
| Title | Chair Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee at Linux Foundation |
| Movement | Open Source |
Christopher (Chris) Ferris (born c. 1957) is a computer scientist, best known for co-leading the Hyperledger Fabric project where he chairs the Technical Steering Committee[1] and is a member of the Governing Board of the foremost blockchain project of the Linux Foundation. Hyperledger has been one of the fastest growing open community projects, with over 200 corporate and associate members.[2] Ferris has a history of open-source software contributions to other technologies, including web services[3] and cloud.[4] Ferris is currently an IBM Distinguished Engineer, and CTO Open Technologies.[5] He is cited in technology, business, and popular press, including MIT Technology Review,[6] The Business Journals (a subsidiary of American City Business Journals)[7], and New York Post.[8]
History
In 1999, Ferris was invited to work with OASIS (organization) on the problem of B2B transactions, and this proved to be the pivotal moment that launched Ferris’s open source career development.[9] In the early days of the internet, vendor-specific and proprietary Electronic Data Interchange or EDI systems were proving “clunky” (slow to deploy and hard to maintain) and needed to be revised and opened up to encourage much faster adoption rates. As a Chief Architect of Sun Microsystems IT, he was invited to the first and second meetings of the OASIS (organization) working group looking into ebXML(Electronic Business Markup Language)[10] for ERP (Enterprise Resource Management) and B2B (Business to Business) transactions, such as invoices, purchasing, and payment transactions. The United Nations adopted this work as the foundational international standard around global commerce, see UN/CEFACT.
Next, Ferris joined and soon became vice chair of the OASIS working group on messaging.[11] This work led to SOAP replacing or underlying vendor-specific proprietary messaging systems, and led to the development of XML (eXtensible Markup Language) developed by a working group at the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). Based on these earlier accomplishments, Ferris later became chair of the web service architecture working group at the W3C.[12] In fall 2002, Ferris joined IBM, and later became an IBM Distinguished Engineer.[13]
More recently, Ferris provided technical oversight and leadership in OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, Cloud Native Compute Foundation, Open Container Initiative, Mesos, Docker.[14][15][16]
Linux Foundation Hyperledger
Most recently, Ferris is a member of the Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee and Governing Board.[17] In 2016, Ferris was elected as chair of the Hyperledger Blockchain Committee.[18] Ferris is a well-known advocate for open source code communities with commercially-friendly licenses, and open governance, such as Linux Foundation Hyperledger.
Ferris was the keynote speaker on the "State of Blockchain,"[19] at the 2017 Open Source Leadership Summit [20] for the Linux Foundation. Ferris is highly sought after for his perspective on the future of Blockchain technology, interoperability of Blockchain implementations, and industry adoption/applications of Blockchain,[21][22],[23]
Mentoring
Ferris is frequently interviewed about open source topics, especially for his advice on developing technical eminence in open source communities.[24] When asked to summarize his advice, he recently responded, “Be authentic, have empathy, and don’t be a jerk.”
Publications
- Androulaki E, Barger A, Bortnikov V, Cachin C, Christidis K, De Caro A, Enyeart D, Ferris C, Laventman G, Manevich Y, Muralidharan S. (2018), "Hyperledger Fabric: A Distributed Operating System for Permissioned Blockchains. arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.10228. 2018 Jan 30."
- Todd Moore and Chris Ferris (2016), "IBM's approach to open technology: Find out how we're investing in the communities and projects that matter most to the enterprise", “IBM developerWorks”, May 16, 2016
- Christopher Ferris, Kelvin Lawrence, Tony Storey (2007), “IBM Submission for the W3C Workshop on Web of Services for Enterprise Computing”
- Christopher Ferris, Joel A. Farrell (2003), What are Web services? Commun. ACM 46(6): 31
- Gupta A, Ferris C, Wilson Y, Venkatasubramanian K. Implementing Java computing: Sun on architecture and applications deployment. IEEE Internet Computing. 1998 Mar;2(2):60-4.
Patents
Patents that are cited more than one hundred times:
- Gupta A, Ferris C, Abdelnur A, inventors; Sun Microsystems Inc, assignee. Method and apparatus for authenticating users. United States patent US 6,226,752. 2001 May 1.
- Wood DL, Weschler P, Norton D, Ferris C, Wilson Y, inventors; Sun Microsystems Inc, assignee. Log-on service providing credential level change without loss of session continuity. United States patent US 6,609,198. 2003 Aug 19.
- Wood DL, Norton D, Weschler P, Ferris C, Wilson Y, inventors; Sun Microsystems Inc, assignee. Single sign-on framework with trust-level mapping to authentication requirements. United States patent US 6,892,307. 2005 May 10.
- Wood DL, Weschler P, Norton D, Ferris C, Wilson Y, Soley WR, inventors; Sun Microsystems Inc, assignee. Log-on service providing credential level change without loss of session continuity. United States patent US 6,944,761. 2005 Sep 13.
- Abdelnur AH, Ferris C, inventors; Sun Microsystems Inc, assignee. User interface component. United States patent US 6,429,882. 2002 Aug 6.
External links
- Ferris on Google Scholar
- Ferris on Github
- Hyperledger
- Hyperledger Blog
- Blockchain Blog
- Chapter Co-Author
- Speaker IEEE Conference
References
- ↑ Hyperledger Leadership, Chair Technical Steering Committee https://www.hyperledger.org/about/leadership Archived 2022-05-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Short HyperLedger History https://www.hyperledger.org/about
- ↑ CACM Article by Ferris https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2003/6/6804-what-are-web-services/fulltext
- ↑ NIST Cloud Expert Panel Acknowledgement https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017/05/31/evaluation_of_cloud_computing_services_based_on_nist_800-145_20170427clean.pdf Archived 2017-06-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Chris Ferris, IBM Distinguished Engineer, CTO Open Technologies https://www.ibm.com/blogs/blockchain/author/chris-ferris/
- ↑ Second Digital Revolution https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602731/web-pioneer-tries-to-incubate-a-second-digital-revolution/
- ↑ Production-ready Hyperledger https://www.bizjournals.com/prnewswire/press_releases/2017/07/11/DC38560
- ↑ Bitcoin Whiz https://nypost.com/2017/01/22/bitcoin-whiz-jumps-ship-at-wells-fargo-for-rival-ibm/
- ↑ Ferris and OASIS https://www.oasis-open.org/events/Hangout9-2014[permanent dead link]
- ↑ OASIS ebXML document http://www.ebxml.org/specs/ebMS2.pdf
- ↑ Ferris (Sun Microsystems) Messaging https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-msg/minutes/f2f-nov2001-arrangements.html
- ↑ Chair W3C Working Group https://www.w3.org/2007/01/XML-Protocol-Charter
- ↑ W3C (2002), “Web Services Architecture, W3C Working Draft 14 November 2002?”, url= https://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-ws-arch-20021114/
- ↑ Jeffrey Schwartz (2013), “IBM and Pivotal To Support the Cloud Foundry Open Source PaaS Project”, “Application Development Trends Magazine”, url=https://adtmag.com/articles/2013/07/25/open-source-paas-project.aspx>
- ↑ Christopher Ferris (2013), “Are OpenStack and Cloud Foundry Compatible?”, url= https://www.ibm.com/blogs/cloud-computing/2013/07/are-cloud-foundry-and-openstack-compatible/
- ↑ Kiran Oliver (2016), “IBM’s Christopher Ferris on Open Source and Container Orchestration”, “NewStack”, url=https://thenewstack.io/ibm-aims-unify-orchestration-open-source/
- ↑ Hyperledger Leadership https://www.hyperledger.org/about/leadership Archived 2022-05-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Stan Higgins (2016) "IBM Exec Elected Chair of Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee" https://www.coindesk.com/ibm-exec-elected-chairman-of-hyperledger-technical-steering-committee/
- ↑ Christopher Ferris (2017), “State of Blockchain”, “Open Source Leadership Summit”, url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz318Gl8C88/
- ↑ Linux Foundation (2017), “Open Source Leadership Summit”, url=https://osleadershipsummit2017.sched.com/
- ↑ BitMason quote future Blockchain security http://bitmason.blogspot.com/2017/04/business-of-blockchain-at-mit.html
- ↑ CoinDesk quote Blockchain interoperability https://www.coindesk.com/enterprise-blockchain-may-finally-ready-breakout/
- ↑ Yahoo Finance quote Blockchain industry adoption/applications https://finance.yahoo.com/news/open-source-blockchain-effort-enterprise-160500450.html
- ↑ Kevin J. Allen (20167),”IBM’s Approach to Open Technologies.” url=https://developer.ibm.com/opentech/2016/06/29/ibms-approach-to-open-technology/
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