Where every fact came from.
Built 2026-09-14 from his own pages and CV, his columns, one IEEE Spectrum profile, one Stanford news release, TED's event page and Wikipedia for background dates. Nothing was invented; anything unverifiable was left out.
- His professional bio (Stanford)The primary source: career, organizations, publications, memberships. Copyright 1993-2013 Charles Petrie. Archived here at /classic/.
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/bio.html - His home page, 'personal portal established 1993'Initiatives, books, mottos, the FOAF file. Archived here at /classic/home/.
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/ - MCC Proteus Project pageTeam, what Proteus was, the NCR Design Advisor. Archived here at /classic/proteus/.
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/proteus.html - Curriculum vitae (PDF)Dates of every position, degrees, consulting, program committees, the full publication list. Personal contact details in it are not reproduced.
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/vita.pdf - Internet Computing Begins (Peering, IEEE IC, May/June 2017)His own account of founding the magazine, hand-coding it, and the URL that was moved to the digital library.
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/online/peer2peer/20YearsIC.pdf - The New Engineering Computer (IEEE IC vol. 1 no. 1, Jan/Feb 1997)His first column, quoted on the ideas page.
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/online/v1i1-webword.html - Peering column archiveEvery column 2005-2017, listed on the publications page.
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/online/peer2peer/index.html - The Future of the Internet is Coordination (FES2010)The Coordinated Internet paper, quoted on the ideas page.
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/papers/FES2010.pdf - Redux OverviewThe goal, operator-oriented programming model described on the ideas page.
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/redux-overview.html - 1948 Selected EventsHis own page recording his birthday, 14 September 1948.
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/1948.html - IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2018: Charles Petrie: Giving Burning Man Its WingsSusan Karlin's profile: the airport years, the quotes, the nickname.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/charles-petrie-giving-burning-man-its-wings - Stanford News, 2 May 2007: Web Services 'Wizard' May Help Computers Do People's WorkThe World Wide Wizard and the POEM project with SAP (via ScienceDaily).
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070502191436.htm - TEDxUHowest event page25 January 2012, Kortrijk, Belgium; theme Emergent collectives.
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/3889 - Wikipedia: MCC, IEEE Internet Computing, WWW Virtual Library, Woody BledsoeBackground dates only.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microelectronics_and_Computer_Technology_Corporation - Google Scholar profileLinked, not scraped. No citation counts are quoted on this site.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6Uvy4NYAAAAJ - Wikimedia CommonsBuilding and airport photographs, credited individually below.
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His personal contact details (address, phone, IBAN and Skype handle appear in his .plan file and CV). Google Scholar citation counts (Scholar refuses automated reads; the profile is linked instead). His children's names. Any award or honor not on his own pages: none were found, none were invented. The Chinese translations of two papers hosted on a third-party site that blocks robots.
Photographs
His portraits are his own photographs, posted by him in the pictures directory of his Stanford home page, used here in tribute and credited. Buildings and the airport approach are from Wikimedia Commons under the licenses shown. No AI-generated images anywhere on this site.
- Charles Petrie, 2007Charles Petrie, from the pictures directory of his Stanford home page (Petrie-0507.jpg, May 2007)
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/petriepictures/ - Charles Petrie, 2003Charles Petrie, from his Stanford home page (Petrie-2003.jpg)
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/petriepictures/ - Charles Petrie at Burning Man, 2011Charles Petrie, from his Stanford home page (Petrie-BMan-2011.jpg)
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/petriepictures/ - Charles Petrie in discussion at the IEEE Semantic Web Services in Practice workshop, Singapore, December 2009Charles Petrie, from his Stanford home page (SingaporeWorkshopDiscussion.jpg, 7 December 2009)
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/petriepictures/ - Charles Petrie, April 2010Charles Petrie, from his Stanford home page (28Apr10.jpg)
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/petriepictures/ - Charles Petrie, February 1996Charles Petrie, from his Stanford home page (petrie-2-27-96.gif)
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/petriepictures/ - The former MCC headquarters in Austin, Texas, 2005Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MCC_campus_2005.jpg - The Gates Computer Science Building at Stanford, 2025Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gates_Computer_Science_Building_(2025)-L1007406.jpg - The Gates Computer Science Building at Stanford, 2014wctaiwan, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stanford_Gates_Building.jpg - The Main Building and tower of the University of Texas at Austin, 2014Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:University_of_texas_at_austin_main_building_2014.jpg - On final approach to Black Rock City, Burning Man 2019Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0
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