- Ray Ozzie
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- Erik Buell
Eric F. Buell (born April 2, 1950 in Pittsburgh, PA) is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of the Buell Motorcycle Company, which is owned by Harley-Davidson Corp. Buell is a pioneer of modern race motorcycle technology.
- Rael Dornfest
Rael Dornfest is Founder and CEO of Portland, Oregon-based Values of n. Rael leads the Values of n charge with passion, unearthly creativity, and a repertoire of puns and jokes - some of which are actually good.
- Farzad Nazem
Farzad Nazem (born in 1962) also known as Zod Nazem, was Yahoo!'s chief technology officer and one of its longest-serving executives. He announced that he would leave the company on June 8, 2007 after 11 years at Yahoo. He will receive a golden parachute worth about $6.9 million. He holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the California Polytechnic State University.
- Dan Geer
Dan Geer , co-author of this report , was CTO of @stake Inc. , a vendor that happened to work for Microsoft.
- 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.
- Greg Papadopoulos
Greg Papadopoulos, Ph.D. is the current Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Sun Microsystems. He is the creator and lead proponent for Redshift, a theory on whether technology markets are over or under-served by Moore's Law. Papadopoulos achieved a B.A. in systems science from the University of California, San Diego, …
- Steve Chen
Steve Chen (born 1944 in Taiwan) is a computer engineer and pioneer. Chen is the founder and CEO of Galactic Computing, a developer of supercomputing blade systems, based in Shenzhen, China. Chen holds a M.S. from Villanova University and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is best known as the principal designer of the Cray X-MP multiprocessor supercomputer. Chen left Cray Research in 1987.
- John Curran
John Curran is the Chairman of ARIN and Chief Technical Officer of ServerVault, as well as former Chief Technical Officer of XO Communications and Chief Technical Officer of BBN
- Min Zhu
Min Zhu is the co-founder and former president and chief technical officer of WebEx. Zhu holds an M.S. in Engineering from Stanford University. He developed his technology expertise at the IBM Scientific Center in Palo Alto, California. He was also the deputy to the chief technical officer of Price Waterhouse and the vice president of Expert Edge, a software design company.
- John Randall
John Neal Randall is an American Electrical Engineer and nanotechnologist. As of 2006, Chief Technical Officer of Zyvex Corporartion. Previously he worked at Texas Instruments from 1985 to 2001, and Lincoln Laboratory (part of the MIT Corporation from 1982 to 1985. He has BS, MS, and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston. John Randall has been a micro/nano fabricator for approximately 30 years. This could mean that he tells small lies, …
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- Curtis Priem
Curtis R. Priem co-founded Nvidia, Corp. -- a manufacturer of graphics and multimedia integrated circuits -- in 1993, and was its Chief Technical Officer from 1993 to 2003. From 1986 to January 1993, Mr. Priem was Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he architected the GX graphics products, including the world's first single chip GUI accelerator. From 1984 to 1986, Mr. Priem was a hardware engineer at GenRad, Inc., a supplier of diagnostic equipment for electronic products.
- 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.
- Michael Widenius
Ulf Michael Widenius, born March 3, 1962 in Helsinki, Finland is the main author of the original version of the open-source MySQL database and a founding member of the MySQL AB company. After studying at (although not graduating from) the Helsinki University of Technology, Widenius started working for Tapio Laakso Oy in 1981. In 1985 he founded TCX DataKonsult AB (a Swedish data warehousing company) with Allan Larsson.
- Daniel M. Lewin
Daniel "Danny" Mark Lewin (May 14, 1970 - September 11 2001) was a mathematician and entrepreneur, best known for co-founding internet company Akamai Technologies. Lewin was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in Jerusalem, where he served for four years in the Israel Defence Forces. He was an officer in Sayeret Matkal, an elite and secretive intelligence unit.
- Peter-Frans Pauwels
Peter-Frans Pauwels (born 1965) is a Dutch entrepreneur. In 1991, soon after he completed his studies in Business and Computer Science at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, he founded, with his former university mate Pieter Geelen, a company called "Palmtop Software", which was later renamed to TomTom. He is currently Chief Technical Officer of TomTom.
- 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.
- 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".
- 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.
- Amir Ansari
Amir Ansari is co-founder of venture capital firm Prodea. Along with his sister-in-law Anousheh Ansari, he made a multi-million dollar contribution to the X PRIZE foundation on May 5 2004, the 43rd anniversary of Alan Shepard's sub-orbital spaceflight. The X PRIZE was officially renamed the "Ansari X PRIZE" in honour of their donation. Born in 1970 in Tehran, Iran, Ansari immigrated to the United States before the Iranian Revolution.
- 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.
- Eric Traut
Eric Traut is an American software engineer and software emulation pioneer. Traut graduated from Stanford University in 1992. He created a new version of the Mac 68k emulator, to be used in Apple Computer's PCI PowerMac systems, a project in which he patented a form of dynamic recompilation. Traut went on to join Connectix, where he developed successful commercial emulators such as Virtual PC and Virtual Game Station.
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- Bert Amato
Bert Amato is an investor and consultant in the high-technology industry. He currently sits as an advisory board member of several firms, including XDL Intervest Management, Farelogix and Infotriever. Born in Zimbabwe, he emigrated to Canada where he received a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto. He helped co-found Delrina in 1988 along with South African expatriates Mark Skapinker and Dennis Bennie.
- 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.
- Chuck Mead
Chuck Mead (born in 1957) is a long time member and leader in the Linux and open source communities. He works for Red Hat in their Global Learning Services division. Mead was the former President, Treasurer, and Director of Information Technology for the Linux Professional Institute as well as the former Chief Technical Officer of LinuxMall.com, a dot-com era Linux vendor. He was also the founder and owner of MoonGroup.com, …
- 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.
- Erik Davis
Erik Davis (b. 1967 in Redwood City, California) is a North American social historian, cultural critic, essayist and lecturer. He is noted for his study of the history of technology and society and his essays about the fate of the individual in the dawning posthuman era. Although significants aspects of his work include media criticism and technology criticism, his works span across other disciplines to include a larger social history of art, religion, and science, …
- Gernot Heiser
Gernot Heiser (born 1957) is professor for operating systems at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He is also leader of the Embedded, Real-Time and Operating Systems (ERTOS) research program at NICTA. Recently he has founded a company called Open Kernel Labs (OK) where he serves as Chief Technology Officer. His research focuses on microkernels and microkernel-based systems as well as virtual machines.
- Tony Fadell
Tony Fadell is Apple Inc.'s Senior Vice President of the iPod Division, having succeeded Jon Rubinstein in 2006. Fadell graduated from University of Michigan with a BS in Computer Engineering in 1991. While still at Michigan, he was CEO of Constructive Instruments, which marketed MediaText, multimedia composition software for children. He worked for Apple spinoff General Magic for three years, …
- Paul Courbis
Paul Courbis, born on the 3rd of November 1967, is a French programmer, mostly known for reverse engineering the HP-28 and then the HP-48 series of calculator, and writing multiple articles and books disclosing his findings. These books had a surprising success in France. Very soon, a team of enthusiasts formed, gathering around Maubert Electronique, a small electronics shop in the Quartier latin, …
- 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).
- P T Poojary
Mr P T Poojary is the former Vice President and CTO (now retired) of Thai Baroda Industries and was one of the core member in the building and commissioning of this tyre cord plant in Rayong, Thailand. The plant is now very profitable and an example of Indian engineering success in Thailand. Mr Poojary was also recently a recipient of the Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award, …
- Rodney A. Brooks
Dr. Rodney Brooks is Director (until June 30, 2007) of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics at MIT. He is also CTO of iRobot Corp (Nasdaq: IRBT). He received degrees in pure mathematics from the Flinders University of South Australia and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1981.
- Bryan R. Martin
Bryan Martin , Chairman & CEO, 8x8 Bryan R. Martin is Chairman & CEO of 8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT) and has served as CEO and as a director since February 2002. From February 2001 to February 2002 he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of the company. He served as 8x8s Chief Technical Officer from August 1995 to August 2000. In addition, Mr. Martin served in various technical roles for 8x8 from April 1990 to August 1995.