F. Randall Farmer
Education
University of San Francisco
BS, inc., Instructional Psychology 1980-01-01 - 1982-01-01
Macomb Community College
Certificate, Software Engineering 1977-01-01 - 1980-01-01
High School
, 1974-01-01 - 1979-01-01Work Experience
Playable Worlds
Current
Playable Worlds
Many Companies
Current
Many Companies
Spritely Networked Communities Institute
2022-01-01 - 2024-04-01
Spritely Networked Communities Institute
Addecco (Google)
2018-12-01 - 2019-11-01
Addecco (Google)
neohabitat.org
2017-01-01 - 2018-12-01
neohabitat.org
Rosenfeld Media
2013-06-01 - 2018-12-01
Rosenfeld Media
MSB Associates
2008-01-01 - 2013-12-01
MSB Associates
Suddenly Social
2011-07-01 - 2012-08-01
Suddenly Social
O'Reilly
2009-03-01 - 2009-03-01
O'Reilly
Yahoo
2003-09-01 - 2008-02-01
Yahoo
Skills
Summary
Entrepreneur, Inventor, Author, Speaker, Advisor, and Podcaster for all things multiuser, realtime, and social. Presently Executive Director at the Spritely Networked Communities Institute, a nonprofit that is leading the way to fully decentralize trust, identity, and community on the Internet. Personal specialties: Reputation Systems, Social Software, Virtual Communities. Virtual Economies, Virtual Worlds, Online Identity, Distributed Objects, Capability Systems, Open Social Co-creator: - First MMO/Virtual world (Lucasfilm's Habitat) & leader open source restoration NeoHabitat.org - Pre-web virtual information markets @ AMiX - JSON data protocol and supporting tools (proto-node) @ State Software - E programming language - first Capabilities, Promises, Futures, and Vats @ Communites.com - Vitality streams (aka newsfeeds), Fine grained permissions (Google circles), capability-enabled previews, and mass scalable reputatation systems @ Yahoo - Many others for companies around the globe - see Patents section
