Nathaniel S Borenstein was born on September 23,1957 and is an American computer scientist.
11 Facts About Nathaniel Borenstein
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Nathaniel Borenstein is one of the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internet electronic mail and sent the first e-mail attachment.
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Nathaniel Borenstein is responsible for sending the first MIME email attachment on March 11,1992.
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Nathaniel Borenstein worked at IBM as distinguished engineer starting in 2002 at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Nathaniel Borenstein then became chief scientist at email management company Mimecast in June 2010.
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Nathaniel Borenstein is author of Programming As If People Mattered: Friendly Programs, Software Engineering, and Other Noble Delusions.
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Nathaniel Borenstein received the New York University Olive Branch Award for writing about peace in 1990, for an essay about his brief experience as a NATO consultant.
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Nathaniel Borenstein's mentors include his doctoral advisor and the director of the Andrew project, Jim Morris, and Einar Stefferud, who initiated the MIME and First Virtual work.
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Nathaniel Borenstein is a pacifist, named his web server and wireless network "ahimsa", and has worked for a mix of pacifist, leftist, and libertarian causes.
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Nathaniel Borenstein was a child prodigy and had finished most of his high school curriculum by the end of third grade, before being restricted to studies at his own grade level beginning in fourth grade.
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Nathaniel Borenstein has three brothers, Eliot Borenstein, a Guggenheim Fellowship winner and professor at NYU; Seth Borenstein, Associated Press Senior Science Reporter; and Joe Borenstein, a contractor and investor.