Jim Waldo is an American computer scientist and the Chief Technology Officer of Harvard University.
[1] Previously he was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where he was lead architect for Jini, a distributed programming system based on Java, and helped develop Project Darkstar.
After a year-long academic position at Hampshire College, he joined a startup company as a programmer.
While at HP, he led the design and development of the first object request broker and was instrumental in getting that technology incorporated into the first CORBA specification.
He left Sun in 2010 and after a year at VMWare, he joined Harvard University where he was named CTO in 2011.