Bill Kennedy (computer scientist)

William P. "Bill" Kennedy, born 1951, is the former editor-in-chief of A+ Publishing, including A+ magazine [1], and PC Games magazine. Kennedy was an early participant in Real World Interface (RWI) along with Grinnell More, inventor of the PackBot. When RWI combined with Colin Engle, Joe Jones and Helen Greiner of ISRobotics to form iRobot.[2] Kennedy went on to co-found, along with CEO Jeanne Dietsch, ActivMedia Robotics (later MobileRobots Inc.) where he led development efforts for the Pioneer series, the reference platform for research robots.[3] He served as chief technical officer of MobileRobots Inc. until the company was sold in 2010[2]

Dr. Bill tests MobileRobots autonomous wheelchair, developed under NIH SBIR HD041781[4]

Bill Kennedy is co-author, with Chuck Musciano, of HTML: The Definitive Guide[5] and HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide by O'Reilly Media,[6] This classic HTML reference guide was published in 12 languages; the English version went through six editions.

Publications
  • HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide O'Reilly Media, ISBN 978-0-596-52732-7, 2006
  • Robot control and Colbert Dr. Dobb's Journal, November, 2000
  • HTML, the definitive guide O'Reilly Media, ISBN 978-1-56592-492-5, 1998
  • Associations of N-acyl Amino Aldehyde Analogs of Specific Substrates to the Active Site of Chymotrypsin PhD dissertation, Loyola University, 1980
  • Effect of Modification of the Essential Catalytic Residues in (YChymotrypsin on the Thermodynamics of Substrate Analog Association Journal of Biological Chemistry, July 13, 1979
  • Mechanism of association of a specific aldehyde "transition-state analogue" to the active site of α-chymotrypsin Biochemistry, 18(2):349-56, February, 1979

References
  1. https://apple2online.com/index.php?p=1_74_A-Magazine
  2. Bill Kennedy: Biography, O'Reilly Media.
  3. "Pioneer P3-DX". MobileRobots. Retrieved 2011-04-08.
  4. https://www.sbir.gov/content/safety-sensing-independence-enhancing-wheelchair-0
  5. Chuck Musciano; Bill Kennedy (1998-09-08). HTML, the definitive guide. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-1-56592-492-5.
  6. Chuck Musciano; Bill Kennedy (2006-10-08). HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-52732-7.



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