- Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock. "Forbes" magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995, … - Doc Searls
Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal , which has been covering the world's fastest-growing operating system since Version 1.0, in 1994. He is a co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , perhaps the only book (and probably the only bestseller) that began as a rant on a Web site. He also writes Doc Searls Weblog , which usually ranks well up in Technorati's Top 100 blogs (out of about 2.7 million). - Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek-American architect and computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of The One Laptop per Child association (OLPC). - Dan Gillmor
Dan Gillmor is a noted American technology writer and former columnist for the "San Jose Mercury News". He was one of the leading chroniclers of the Silicon Valley dot com boom and its subsequent bust. Gillmor is also the author of a popular weblog covering technology news and the Northern California technology business sector, criticizing rigid enforcement of copyrights, and commenting on politics from a frequently left-wing perspective. - John Markoff
John Markoff (born October 24, 1949) is a journalist best known for his work at the "The New York Times", and a book and series of articles about the 1990s pursuit and capture of hacker Kevin Mitnick. - Meg Hourihan
Meg Hourihan co-founded Pyra Labs, the company behind Blogger before its acquisition by Google. She now runs a weblog at Megnut.com and co-founded Kinja along with Nick Denton of Gawker Media. She married notable blogger Jason Kottke on March 25th, 2006, and gave birth to their son, Ollie Peter Kottke, on July 3, 2007. She is the co-author of "We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs" (ISBN 0-7645-4962-6), … - David Pogue
David Pogue is a technology writer, journalist and commentator. He is a personal technology columnist for the "New York Times" an Emmy-winning tech correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning", and tech guest reporter for NPR's "Morning Edition." He has written or co-written seven books in the "...for Dummies" series (including Macintosh computers, magic, opera, and classical music); in 1999, he launched his own series of computer how-to books, … - Jeffrey Zeldman
Jeffrey Zeldman is among the web's best-known web designers, authors, and teachers. His personal site, zeldman.com , has welcomed over 16 million visitors and is a daily industry read. Jeffrey is the founder of Happy Cog Studios, the publisher of A List Apart Magazine, and the author of Designing With Web Standards (New Riders, 2003) and Taking Your Talent to the Web (New Riders, 2001). - David Weinberger
David Weinberger (born 1950 in New York) is a technologist, professional speaker, and commentator, probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto (originally a website, and eventually a book, which has been described as "a primer on Internet marketing"). Weinberger's work focuses on how the Internet is changing human relationships, communication, and society. - John Edwards
John Edwards (born 21 November, 1954, in New York City) is an American technology writer. Edwards has written for various print and online publications, including "The New York Times, The Washington Post, MSNBC, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, CFO Magazine, CIO Magazine, Men's Health," and "American Way" (American Airlines' in-flight magazine). - Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz (born 1969) is an American journalist who covers the cultural impact of science and technology, such as topics on open source software and hacker subcultures. She has written for many periodicals from "Popular Science" to "Wired", and since 1999 has had a syndicated weekly column called "Techsploitation". From 2004-2005 she was a policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. - Paul Boutin
Paul Boutin (born 1961 in Lewiston, Maine, United States) is a magazine writer and editor who writes about technology in a pop-culture context. He is currently Wired's managing editor for blogs. Boutin has also written regularly for "Slate" and "Valleywag". He is a contributing editor to "Wired" magazine, and most recently a book reviewer for the "Wall Street Journal". In the past his work has appeared in the "New York Times", … - Xeni Jardin
Xeni Jardin (born August 5 1972) is a journalist and weblogger in the United States. She is known for her position as co-editor of the collaborative weblog Boing Boing; as a contributor to "Wired" and "Wired News", and as a correspondent for the National Public Radio show "Day to Day". She has also worked as a guest technology news commentator for television networks such as CNN, Fox News and ABC. - Peter Ludlow
Peter Ludlow (January 16, 1957), who also writes under the name Urizenus Sklar, is a professor of philosophy and linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Before moving to Michigan, Ludlow taught for several years at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and was Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University and Cornell University. His research areas include the conceptual issues in cyberspace, … - Paul Saffo
Paul Saffo (born in 1954 in Los Angeles) is a technology forecaster. He is the Roy Amara Fellow at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California. He is also a board member of the Long Now Foundation. He has degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Stanford University. Saffo is frequently quoted in leading publications on issues ranging from high technology to global lifestyles. - Peter Norton
Peter Norton (born November 14 1943) is an American software publisher, author, and philanthropist. - Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson is editor-in-chief of "Wired Magazine", which has won a National Magazine Award under his tenure. He coined the phrase "The Long Tail" in an acclaimed Wired article, which he expanded upon in the book "The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More" (2006). He currently lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and four young children. Before joining "Wired" in 2001, he worked at "The Economist", … - Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was an American visionary, designer, architect, poet, author, and inventor. Throughout his life, Fuller was concerned with the question "Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?" Considering himself an average individual without special monetary means or academic degree, he chose to devote his life to this question, … - Kathy Sierra
Kathy Sierra (born June 19, 1957, Fresno, California) is a programming instructor and game developer. Sierra is the co-creator of the "Head First" series of books on computer programming, along with her partner, Bert Bates. The series, which began with "Head First Java" in 2003, takes an unorthodox, visually intensive approach to the process of teaching programming. - Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938 in Rockford, Illinois) is an author, editor, and creator of "The Whole Earth Catalog" and "CoEvolution Quarterly". His intent with the "Whole Earth Catalog" was to enable people to find virtually any sort of information useful to themselves, in the belief that humans would then develop a new, positive and sustainable culture and technology for themselves; in this way, his ideas were forerunners of the Internet. - Kara Swisher
Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997. Her column BoomTown originally appeared on the front page of the Marketplace section and also online at WSJ.com. Previously, Ms. Swisher covered breaking news about the Web's major players and Internet policy issues and also wrote feature articles on technology for the paper. - Michael Deering
Michael Frank Deering, PhD, (b. 1956) is a computer scientist, a former chief engineer for Sun Microsystems in Mountain View, California, and a widely recognized expert on artificial intelligence, computer vision, 3D graphics hardware/software, very-large-scale integration (VLSI) design and virtual reality. Deering oversaw Sun's 3D graphics technical strategy as the chief hardware graphics architect and is a co-architect of the Java 3D API, … - Steven Levy
Steven Levy (born 1951) is an American journalist who has written several books on computers, technology, cryptography, the Internet, cybersecurity, and privacy. Levy is chief technology writer and a senior editor for "Newsweek", writing mainly in the "Science & Technology" section. He also writes the column "Random Access" in the monthly feature "Focus On Technology." Levy is also a contributor to "Wired", and has had articles published on "Harper's", … - Joshua Davis
Joshua Davis (born June 13, 1971) is an American web designer, author and artist in new media. He was an early pioneer in the use of Macromedia Flash. He is the author of "Flash to the Core" (2002) and was featured in the seminal book "New Masters of Flash" (2000). - Neal Stephenson
Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known primarily for his science fiction works in the postcyberpunk genre with a penchant for explorations of society, mathematics, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as "Wired Magazine", and has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (funded by Jeff Bezos) developing a manned sub-orbital launch system. - James Daly
James Daly is a San Francisco Bay Area journalist. He is currently Editor in Chief of "Edutopia", a publication from The George Lucas Educational Foundation that follows innovation in K-12 public education. Previously, he served as Editor in Chief of Red Herring, leading the web site's relaunch in 2004. In late 1997, he led the launch of "Business 2.0", an international biweekly business magazine. - Walter Mossberg
Walter S. Mossberg (born March 27 1947) is the principal technology columnist for the "Wall Street Journal". His "Personal Technology" column has appeared every Thursday since 1991. He also writes the "Mossberg Solution" column each Wednesday (co-authored with his assistant, Katherine Boehret), and the "Mossberg's Mailbox" column on Thursdays. - Fred Brooks
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book "The Mythical Man-Month". "It is a very humbling experience to make a multi-million-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable." Brooks received a Turing Award in 1999 and many other awards. Born in Durham, North Carolina, he attended Duke University, … - John Gruber
John Gruber (born 1973) is a technical writer and technology pundit, and author of Apple- and Web-related blog Daring Fireball, which he writes as a full-time job. His blog often seeks to refute criticism of Steve Jobs, Apple, and its products. He is also the creator of Markdown, a text-to-HTML formatting syntax for web writers, as well as other web-related side projects. - Daniel Terdiman
Daniel Terdiman is a journalist, who has been published in both print and non-print media, including "Time Magazine, The New York Times, Wired Magazine, CNET News.com, Wired News, Martha Stewart Weddings, Salon.com, Business 2.0", and the "San Francisco Chronicle". He writes about a wide range of subjects from hi-tech to the web to sports. He has also made speaking appearances at hi-tech conferences as an expert on electronic game development, … - Ward Cunningham
Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham (born May 26, 1949) is the American computer programmer who invented the wiki. A pioneer in both design patterns and Extreme Programming, he started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham (commonly known by its domain name, c2.com), on March 25, 1995, as an add-on to the Portland Pattern Repository. He currently lives in Beaverton, Oregon. - Joel Spolsky
Joel Spolsky started his web log, www.joelonsoftware.com, in March 2000 in order to offer his insights, based on years of experience, on how to improve the world of programming. His extraordinary writing skills, technical knowledge, and caustic wit have made him a programming guru. This log, now legend in the programming world, is linked to more than 600 other websites and translated into more than 30 languages! - Scot Hacker
Scot Hacker is the webmaster for the Knight Digital Media Center at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where he also offers technical assistance in multimedia training courses and teaches a class in web development. - Blake Schwendiman
Blake Schwendiman (born May 23, 1970) is an American author of several PHP software development books. Born in Las Vegas, Nevada, Schwendiman grew up in Rexburg, Idaho and graduated from Madison High School in 1988. He received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University in 1994. His background in computer software development includes developing software for Unix, Linux and Microsoft Windows in the languages C++, Delphi and PHP. - Kim Zetter
Kim Zetter is an American freelance journalist in Oakland, California. She has written on a wide variety of subjects from the Kabbalah to dining out in San Francisco to Israel to cryptography and electronic voting, and her work has been published in newspapers and magazines all over the world, including the "Los Angeles Times", "San Francisco Chronicle", "Jerusalem Post", "San Jose Mercury News", "Detroit Free Press", … - Gareth Branwyn
Gareth Branwyn is a writer, editor, and media critic. He covers technology and cyberculture for "Wired", "Make", "Esquire", the "Baltimore Sun" and other publications. He has also been an editor at "Mondo 2000" and "Boing Boing" (when it was a print zine), founded the personal tech site, Street Tech, where he is self-described "Cyborg-in-Chief", and is a member of the technical advisory board to "Make". - Raymond Kurzweil
Raymond Kurzweil (pronounced:) (born February 12, 1948) is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, technological singularity, and futurism. - Christopher Locke
Christopher Locke co-wrote the Cluetrain Manifesto and "Gonzo Marketing". He (and/or his alter ego "RageBoy") comment on business in the context of the World Wide Web. - Eric S. Raymond
Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is a computer programmer, author and advocate for the open source movement. His reputation within hacker culture was established when he became the maintainer of the "Jargon File". After the 1997 publication of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", Raymond became a high-profile representative of the open source movement, and is today one of its most recognized and controversial characters. - Patrick di Justo
Patrick Di Justo (born April 11, 1964) is a freelance magazine writer who writes about science and technology. He is a contributing editor to Wired magazine. He has also written for the New York Times, Scientific American, Salon.com, and Popular Science. He is a public radio reporter and producer, working out of WFUV, and has been a technology commentator for CNN. In addition to his work as a journalist, …
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