- Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier is president of Counterpane Systems, the author of Applied Cryptography, and the inventor the Blowfish algorithm. He serves on the board of the International Association for Cryptologic Research and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He is a contributing editor to Dr. Dobb's Journal, and a frequent writer and lecturer on cryptography.
- Justin Rattner
Justin Rattner , 59, is vice president and chief technology officer (CTO). He is also an Intel Senior Fellow and head of the Corporate Technology Group. In the latter role, he directs Intel's global research efforts in microprocessors, systems, and communications including the company's disruptive research activity. In 1989, Rattner was named Scientist of the Year by R&D Magazine for his leadership in parallel and distributed computer architecture.
- Philip Rosedale
Philip Rosedale has an extensive background in the development and pioneering of streaming technology, having built his first computer in 4th grade, and started his first computer software company while still in high school. In 1995 he developed FreeVue, a low-bitrate video conferencing system for Internet-connected PC's, resulting in the acquisition of his company in early 1996 by RealNetworks.
- Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He teaches New Media as an adjunct professor at New York University's (NYU) graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology, how our networks shape culture and vice-versa.
- Brian Behlendorf
Brian Behlendorf founded CollabNet, with O'Reilly & Associates , in July 1999. The company provides tools and services based on open source methods. Before launching CollabNet, Behlendorf was co-founder and CTO of Organic Online , a Web design and engineering consultancy located in San Francisco. During his five years at Organic, Behlendorf helped create Internet strategies for dozens of Fortune 500 companies.
- Nathan Myhrvold
Nathan Myhrvold is chief executive officer and founder of Intellectual Ventures, a private firm focused on the funding, creation and commercialization of inventions. Before Intellectual Ventures, Myhrvold spent 14 years at Microsoft Corporation where he retired in May 2000 from his position as chief technology officer.
- Mark Spencer
Mark Spencer (born April 8, 1977) is a computer engineer and is the original author of the GTK+-based instant messaging client Gaim, the L2TP daemon l2tpd and the Cheops Network User Interface. Mark Spencer is also the creator of Asterisk, a Linux-based open-sourced PBX in software. He is the founder, chairman and CTO of Digium, an open-source telecommunications supplier most notable for its development and sponsorship of Asterisk.
- Fabrizio Capobianco
Fabrizio Capobianco is CEO of Funambol, the company behind the Funambol mobile open source project. He is a highly regarded expert on open source software as it applies to the consumer mobile email market. He writes a regular blog called Mobile Open Source, which was voted among the 20 best in wireless by FierceWireless readers. He has forged new paths in open source licensing by co-authoring the Honest Public License (HPL), …
- Anil Dash
Anil Dash (pronounced, born in September 1975) is an early and influential blogger who began his weblog in 1999. Previously an independent technology consultant, and a new media developer for the "Village Voice", Dash was the first employee of, and now works as a Vice President for, Six Apart, the makers of Movable Type, TypePad, Vox, and owners of LiveJournal. In 2003, Dash was one of four bloggers featured on the PBS series "Media Matters".
- Jeffrey Nick
Nick joined EMC in September 2004 from IBM, where he held the distinguished title of IBM Fellow, the highest technical honor that IBM bestows on its IT innovators. During his 24-year career with IBM, Nick filed more than 80 inventions and holds more than 50 U.S. patents in computer systems technology. Most recently, he was Vice President, Architecture and Design, eBusiness On Demand, responsible for the design and architecture of IBM's On Demand initiative.
- Matt Zimmerman
Matt Zimmerman is a technologist and free software and open source developer. Matt is a well known developer in the Debian project, having occupied a role on the group's security team and maintained the Advanced Packaging Tool (APT). Matt currently works for Canonical Ltd. as the technical leader of the Ubuntu project, chairman of the Ubuntu technical board and CTO of the project.
- Dan Geer
Dan Geer , co-author of this report , was CTO of @stake Inc. , a vendor that happened to work for Microsoft.
- Michael Stonebraker
Michael Stonebraker is a computer scientist specializing in database research and development. His career covers, and helped create, the majority of the existing relational database market today. He is also the founder of Ingres, Illustra, Cohera, StreamBase Systems and Vertica and was previously the CTO of Informix. He is also an editor for the book "Readings in Database Systems".
- Bdale Garbee
Bdale Garbee is a computer specialist who works with Linux, particularly Debian GNU/Linux. He is currently the Linux CTO at Hewlett-Packard, and the current President of Software in the Public Interest. Bdale Garbee has been a Debian developer since the earliest days of the project in the mid-1990s, and he set up the original developer machine named "master.debian.org" in 1995. He has later served as a Debian Project Leader for one year (2002-2003).
- Dave Aitel
Dave Aitel is a computer security professional. He joined the NSA as a research scientist aged 18 where he worked for six years before being employed as a consultant at @stake for three years. In 2002 he founded a software security company, Immunity, where he is now the CTO.
- Mike Shaver
As a founding member of mozilla.org, Mike has enjoyed a rare opportunity to inflict a wide variety of trials and errors on the Mozilla code and project. He is stronger for it, and hopes that Mozilla is as well. Scheming diabolically from his fortress of solitude in Toronto, shaver meddles in matters ranging from platform architecture and implementation to licensing and organizational development. If you are short on opinions, he often has some to spare.
- Erik Troan
Erik is CTO at rPath, the company that is pioneering the software appliance approach for application distribution and management. Prior to founding rPath, Erik served in multiple roles at Red Hat including Vice President of Product Engineering for several years as well as the Senior Director of Marketing and chief developer for Red Hat Software. During his tenure with the company Erik was responsible for leading development for Red Hat Linux, RPM, and Anaconda.
- Andrei Broder
Andrei Broder is a Research Fellow and Vice President of Emerging Search Technology for Yahoo!. He previously has worked for AltaVista as the vice president of research, and for IBM Research as a Distinguished Engineer and CTO of IBM's Institute for Search and Text Analysis. Broder's research centers around the internet, and internet searching. He is credited with being one of the first people to develop a CAPTCHA, while working for AltaVista.
- Mr Phil Morle
Phil Morle (born 1968) was the Director of Technology for Sharman Networks, the owners since 2002 of Kazaa until 2006. Kazaa holds the record for being the most downloaded software program with over 60 million copies downloaded by 2003. Morle also designed the Kazaa website which was one of the top ten sites in terms of visits as of 2003. Morle was a theatre director in Perth for ten years and was working in information technology to subsidise his interests.
- Dan Farmer
Dan Farmer (born April 5, 1962) is a computer security researcher. In a summer course in 1989, in order to graduate from Purdue University he started the development of the COPS program for identifying security issues on Unix systems under Gene Spafford, first releasing it after leaving Purdue in late 1989. In 1995, he and Wietse Venema created Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN), one of the earliest network based vulnerability scanners.
- Chris Klaus
Chris Klaus (born 1973 in Sarasota, Florida) is the founder and current CEO of Kaneva, Inc. and founder and former CTO of Internet Security Systems (ISS). Klaus formed ISS in the early 1990s as a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, eventually dropping out to focus on the growing company. In 2004 Chris Klaus stepped down from his role of Chief Technology Officer of ISS to pursue other interests, …
- Kurt Akeley
Kurt Akeley is a computer graphics engineer.
- Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz (born May 22, 1984) co-founded the online social directory, Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Hughes. Together they have grown the site to be used by more than 25 million people. Dustin currently serves as the VP of Engineering of Facebook and works out of the company's Palo Alto office.
- Murugan Pal
Murugan Pal a serial entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley, Bay Area, USA. Murugan is currently an EIR with Foundation Capital. Being a social entrepreneur, he acts as a technology adviser for CK12. CK12 is a non-profit organization launched in 2006, that aims to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the US and worldwide. Previously, Murugan was the founder and CTO of SpikeSource.
- Benoit Schillings
Benoit joined Qt Software (originally Trolltech) in October 2005 serving as Chief Technologist responsible for leveraging Qt Software's existing technologies and services in addition to strengthening the company's ability to bring new technologies quickly to market. Mr. Schillings was a principal contributor to the launch of Be Incorporated, where he designed, developed and implemented the technically acclaimed BeOS.
- Burt Kaliski
Burton S. "Burt" Kaliski, Jr. is a cryptographer, currently chair of the office of the CTO and vice president of research at RSA Security, and chief scientist of its research center, RSA Laboratories. His notable work includes the development of such public key cryptography standards as PKCS and IEEE P1363, the extension of linear cryptanalysis to use multiple approximations, and the design of the block cipher Crab.
- Graham Spencer
Mr. Spencer was a co-founder of Excite.com, where he worked as chief technology officer until the company was sold to @Home in 1999. After leaving Excite, Graham founded DigitalConsumer, a non-profit political lobbying group dedicated to preserving
- Lance James
Lance James is an American computer scientist, considered an expert on computer security techniques such as anti-phishing. He has been quoted on the subject in multiple media outlets, including CBC, CNN, the BBC, the David Lawrence Show, ZDNet, "Wired News", CSO, "USA Today", "Fox News", and the "Washington Post". He was born in 1978 in Wenatchee, Washington.
- Atul Chitnis
Atul Chitnis (1962-) is an Indian consulting technologist known for his work in the fields of data networks, internet and intranets, Linux and Free and Open Source Software and mobile computing in India. He is also the founder of FOSS.IN (formerly Linux Bangalore), one of Asia's largest FOSS conferences.
- Andrey Golub
BSc- Applied Mathematics/ Software Engineering, PhD- Systems Analysis and Design. Who's Who in the World- 2008 (Marquis), . Prof: IT/TLC/Web Project- Product Manager, Sr.Systems/ Business Analyst and Team Leader. Web: Web 2.0 Evangelist and Researcher (Marketing 2.0/ PR 2.0/ Community Manager) with some broad experience in leading Open-Community (and Open-Source) projects.Co-founder, VP and IT/Web Manager of Business Club 2.0 Milan-IN (official LinkedIn Italia supporter Club).
- Jonathan Betts-Lacroix
Jonathan Betts-LaCroix is the CTO of OQO. Prior to founding OQO, Jonathan built Analog Design, an electronics design-and-build firm with clients such as IBM Corporation, Apple Computer, and Maxtor. In 1998, he was a founder and the primary technical contributor at Unilinear, where he developed a PC-card/wireless adapter for Palm PDA's. Jonathan previously worked as a researcher at IBM's Almaden Research Center.
- Bradley M. Kuhn
Bradley M. Kuhn (born in 1973) is a free software activist from the United States. Kuhn is currently the CTO of Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and president of the Software Freedom Conservancy. He previously served the Executive Director of Free Software Foundation (FSF) from 2001 until March 2005.
- Benjamin Trott
Benjamin Trott (born September 22, 1977) is a co-founder of Six Apart, creator of Movable Type and TypePad. The company name comes from the fact that Trott and co-founder/wife Mena G. Trott were born six days apart. Trott is chief technical officer of Six Apart. He is a regular contributor to CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network), and has written for Perl.com and contributed to "Essential Blogging".
- Steve Perlman
Steve Perlman is an entrepreneur and inventor with over 70 patents in an array of multimedia and communications technologies. Perlman initially attracted notice as a principal scientist of Apple Computer, Inc., where he led the development efforts for much of the underlying multimedia technology incorporated into the color Macintosh, including the underpinnings of QuickTime technology. Perlman left Apple with other employees to join General Magic, …
- Karl Lehenbauer
Karl Lehenbauer (born April 5, 1958) was the founder of NeoSoft in the early 1990s, which was the first Internet Service Provider in the southern United States as well as the first to offer cable modem service in Houston, Texas, among other technological milestones. NeoSoft was later sold to Internet America in 1998. Lehenbauer also wrote the Internet (socket) capabilities of the Tcl programming language.
- David Warthen
David Warthen (born December 10, 1957) was one of the founders of Ask.com, an Internet information retrieval company, in 1996. In 2004, Warthen joined streaming video technology company GlobalStreams, where he served as CTO. In 2004 he founded Eye Games, a webcam-based children's video game company. He currently serves on the board of directors for search technology site Kozoru, as well as is the CTO of InfoSearchMedia.
- Luca Turin
Luca Turin (1953 -) is a biophysicist with a long-standing interest in the sense of smell, the art of perfume, and the fragrance industry. Since 1996 Turin has been the leading proponent of the vibration theory of olfaction, which proposes that the vibrational spectroscopic properties of molecules can be an important determinant of their associated smells, rather than just the specific "lock and key" ligand binding proposed by the orthodox shape theory of olfaction.
- Gary Williams
I work in international IT and change management. See LinkedIn and ecademy for my professional profile, references and resume. I'm an Open Networker open to connect on gary.williams@runbox.com at ecademy.com, plaxo.com, linkedin.com, konnects.com, naymz.com and facebook.com. Email is best to contact me. I work hard, love friends and family, having fun, sport, cars, motorbikes and very loud music. Life is short, you get one shot and I figure I've had more than half of mine already! :-)
- David P. Anderson
David Pope Anderson (born 1955) is a scientist at the Space Sciences Laboratory, at the University of California, Berkeley, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Houston. Anderson leads the SETI@home and BOINC projects. SETI@home is a large volunteer computing project and BOINC is an open-source software system for creating volunteer computing projects. Anderson received a BA in Mathematics from Wesleyan University, …
- Rollo Carpenter
Rollo Carpenter is the British-born creator of Jabberwacky, a learning Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatterbot that models, in part, the way humans learn. Carpenter has worked as CTO of a business software startup in Silicon Valley, but returned to the UK to work at Icogno. As Managing Director of Icogno Ltd, Carpenter is developing AI for entertainment, companionship and communication. His AI entries George and Joan were #1 for Loebner Prize (2005) and (2006).