Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as a "Benevolent Dictator for Life", meaning that he continues to oversee the Python development process, making decisions where necessary.

Shuman Ghosemajumder (born 1974) is a Canadian technologist, author, and businessman based in Silicon Valley. He is co-author of the book "CGI Programming Unleashed" (Macmillan Publishing, 1997, ISBN 1-57521-151-3) and has also written numerous works on digital distribution, including the Open Music Model (2003). He is currently the business product manager for Trust & Safety at Google, which he joined in 2003. He was previously co-founder and CEO of Anadas, …

Hal Ronald Varian is a central academic in the economics of information technology and the information economy. Varian's assertion that "Technology changes. Economic laws do not." introduces a series of efforts in applying general economic principles to the information economy. As a professor and former dean at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information, the author of many books and papers, a New York Times columnist, and a consultant to Google, Inc, …

Ellen Spertus is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Mills College and a part-time software engineer at Google. In 2001 she was named The Sexiest Geek Alive. She is the author of technical as well as social articles, often combining the two. She attended MIT, where she received her bachelor's degree (1990), master's degree (1992), and Ph.D. (1998).

Amit Singhal is a Google Fellow. According to the New York Times, "Mr. Singhal is the master of what Google calls its “ranking algorithm” — the formulas that decide which Web pages best answer each user’s question". A native of India, Amit got his bachelors degree in Computer Science from IIT Roorkee in 1989. Amit holds a MS in Computer Science from University of Minnesota, Duluth, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.

Dr. Steve Lawrence was among the group at NEC Research which was responsible for the creation of the Search Engine/Digital Library CiteSeer. He is currently an employee at Google. Lawrence received bachelor of science and bachelor of engineering degrees from Queensland University of Technology in Australia, and his PhD from the University of Queensland in Australia. He became a Senior Research Scientist at NEC Research Institute.

Daniel Reed is the main developer and programmer of the naim AOL Instant Messenger client using the C programming language. He is also an IRC Operator on EFnet. In 2003, he graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. Reed has worked as a software developer at Red Hat, Inc. and was previously enlisted in the United States Army. He currently works for Google Inc. as a software engineer.

Elliot Schrage is a lawyer and business advisor with 20 years of experience at the intersection of global business strategy and public policy. At Google he is responsible for corporate communications and public affairs, which encompass media relations, stakeholder outreach and policy strategy.