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Anthony J. "Tony" Bates (born 29 April 1967) is the president of GoPro, and former executive vice president of Microsoft responsible for business development, strategy and evangelism. A university drop out and self-taught programmer, Bates has more than 25 years of leadership experience in the communications and Internet industries. An expert on Internet technologies, he has published 12 IETF RFCs in the areas of Internet Routing and Operations 〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=IETF )〕 and he has 10 patents in Layer 2 and Layer 3 innovations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=US Patent & Trademark Office )〕 Bates began his career in network operation and internet infrastructure. Throughout his career, Bates has served on the boards of many technology companies, including YouTube, the video-sharing website; TokBox, a PaaS provider of video conference API's; BubbleMotion, a voice-based messaging and blogging service; and LoveFilm, an online video streaming and rental service.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=LinkedIn )〕 and first applied his experience to large scale consumer products and services following Cisco's acquisition of the Scientific Atlanta set-top box business and subsequently as Chief Executive Officer of Skype Technologies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=TechNet )〕 ==Early Life and Career== Bates was born April 29, 1967, in Isleworth, West London. He came from humble beginnings, raised in Teddington by his hairdresser mother and stepfather who worked as a builder. Like many Silicon Valley CEOs before him, he never finished university. At 19, he dropped out of his mechanical engineering program at South Bank Polytechnic. Bates’ first job was at the University of London as a network operator in the computer center where he worked from 1986 to 1992. During his time at the university, his commute was one hour by train each way. He capitalized on this commute time by teaching himself the C programming language and by learning UNIX through DEC manuals.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Voice on the web )〕 Bates was fortunate to be involved in the early days of the Internet running the Arpanet gateways between the U.S. and the U.K. Bates helped transition the U.K. academic network JANET from the academic Coloured Book protocols to TCP/IP, helping to create the JANET IP Service (JIPS).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Good Old Days Netwroking in UK Academia 25 years ago )〕 He left the University of London Computer Centre in 1992 to work in Amsterdam on a Réseaux Associés pour la Recherche Européenne (RARE)-funded project as part of the RIPE NCC, an organization responsible for establishing the Europe IP registry and a number of operational standards for European networking. In 1994, he moved to Virginia, which at the time was considered the nexus of the Internet.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Voice on the web )〕 He worked on the strategy and operation for the Internet MCI IP backbone. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tony Bates」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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