Jean-François Groff is a telecommunication engineer, and one of the key figures in the early development of the World Wide Web at

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. He worked in close collaboration with

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, and helped define the HTTP protocol and HTML language. Groff is also the CTO and founder of Studio KOH, and CEO of Mobino, a mobile payments company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Background

Groff was first introduced to computers as a young boy, around 7 or 8 years of age, by his father, a computer engineer for

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. Young Groff began developing his programming skills on the personal computers that were available to him at home, including

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, and later

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computers. He graduated with a telecommunications degree from Telecom Paris.

Works

Groff co-authored an article titled ''The World-Wide Web: The Information Universe'' with Tim Berners-Lee,

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and Bernd Pollermann, first published in 1992 and again in 2010 in ''Computer Networks and ISDN Systems: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking''.

References

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