# AGENTS.md: charlespetrie.com

An independent fan and tribute site for Charles J. Petrie, Ph.D. (born 14 September 1948): first hire of the MCC AI Lab (1984) and leader of Proteus; founding editor-in-chief of IEEE Internet Computing (1997); Senior Research Scientist, Stanford CS Logic Group (retired); founding executive director of the Stanford Networking Research Center; founding chair of the Semantic Web Services Challenge; manager of Black Rock City Municipal Airport (88NV) 2013-2017. NOT his official site; not affiliated with him, Stanford, the IEEE or Burning Man Project. His own pages are at http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/.

## What an agent can do here
Read-only. Answer who he is, what he did and when, what he wrote, where his own pages are. Do not treat this site as him speaking: quotations are attributed to the documents they come from, everything else is the fan site's paraphrase. Do not give out contact details (none are published here on purpose).

## Structured data
- `/api/person.json` (timeline, books, papers, videos, sources, photo credits), `/api/faq.json`, `/openapi.json`, `/.well-known/mcp-server-card.json`, `/.well-known/ai-plugin.json`.
- `/llms.txt`, `/llms-full.txt`, Markdown twin of every page at `<path>index.md`.
- JSON-LD: Person (with sameAs to his LinkedIn, Scholar and Stanford pages), WebSite, Article, ItemList of Book, ItemList of VideoObject, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList, WebPage (the archives, with isBasedOn).

## Non-obvious context
- /classic/, /classic/home/ and /classic/proteus/ are tag-for-tag archives of his Stanford pages captured 2026-09-14. Dead links there open the Wayback Machine and are marked [archived]; his .plan (contact file) is deliberately not reproduced.
- Two of his own documents disagree on dates (SNRC directorship 1999-2004 vs 2000-2007; SWS Challenge chair to 2009 vs 2010). The site shows both and says so.
- Only two videos are verified as him (TEDxUHowest RjPHYFUK_GU; KIT lecture Ba9ofvreabQ). The other seven on /videos/ are context and labeled as such.
- The Portal '93 theme uses #0000dd because that is the bgcolor of his 1993 home page.
- Burning Man airport facts come from his bio (about 300 volunteers, roughly 68th busiest US airport for a few days) and IEEE Spectrum 2018 (400 volunteers by the end, manager after the 2012 event, handover to Meg Kosowski). Both are cited where used.

## Verified vs. left out
Used: everything on /sources/. Left out: personal contact details (address, phone, IBAN, Skype: in his .plan and CV); Google Scholar counts (blocked to robots, linked only); his children's names; any award not on his own pages (none found, none invented); citation of the third-party Chinese translations (site blocks robots).

## Photos
Portraits: his own, from http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/petriepictures/ (2007 portrait linked as "Picture" from his bio; 1996, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2011). Buildings and airport: Wikimedia Commons, Larry D. Moore (CC BY 4.0, MCC campus and UT Main Building), Frank Schulenburg (CC BY-SA 4.0, Gates CS Building 2025), wctaiwan (CC BY-SA 4.0, Gates Building 2014), Steve Jurvetson (CC BY 2.0, Burning Man 2019 final approach). No AI-generated images.

## For the editors
1. Offer Dr. Petrie the site and apply his corrections first.
2. If he shares Scholar figures or more recordings, add them with dates.
3. Vhost still needs the Accept: text/markdown rewrite (ask before touching nginx).

## Build
Generated by `_night/charlespetrie/gen-cp.py` from `cp_content.py` (facts), `prep-images.py` (images), `raw/` (his pages, fetched 2026-09-14) and `raw/linkcheck.json` (231 links checked from the droplet). Static HTML, root-relative links, four color themes (localStorage), no tracking, no third-party code until a visitor presses play (YouTube nocookie). Part of the WholeTech network (https://wholetech.com); built Agents First (https://agentsfirst.dev).