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robert mccool
 robert mccool
robert mccool

robert martin mccool -lrb- born 1973 -rrb- , more commonly known as rob mccool , is a software developer and architect .
mccool was the author of the original ncsa httpd web server , later known as the apache http server , and until apache version 2.2 , httpd.conf files as distributed contain comments signed with his name .
he wrote the first version while he was an undergraduate at the university of illinois at urbana -- champaign , where he was working with the original ncsa mosaic team .
his twin brother , mike , also attended the university and would join the mosaic team to work on a port of the mosaic software to the macintosh computer .
the brothers received their bachelor 's degrees from the university in 1995 .
they went to high school at the illinois mathematics and science academy -lrb- class of 1991 -rrb- and robert was awarded its alumni trailblazer award at its inaugural award event during its 20th anniversary celebration on april 20 , 2007 .
one of robert mccool 's many contributions was in drafting the initial specification of the common gateway interface -lrb- cgi -rrb- , in collaboration with others on the www-talk mailing list , and providing a reference implementation of cgi in version 1.0 of the ncsa httpd web server .
the cgi specification , introduced in december 1993 , turned out to be a key element in making the world wide web dynamic and interactive .
mccool was an early netscape employee , contributing to netscape enterprise server -lrb- e.g. , nsapi -rrb- and other server-side systems .
later , at stanford university , he co-authored the tap and kdd systems for automatic augmentation of human-generated web content .
he is also the author of various journal and conference articles pertaining to semantic search , semantic web , and knowledge provenance .
mccool lives in menlo park , california .
