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Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, linguist, and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987. Wall earned his bachelor's degree from Seattle Pacific University in 1976. Wall is the author of the rn Usenet client and the nearly universally used patch program. - Danny Goodman
Danny Goodman is a computer programmer, technology consultant, and a well known award-winning author of over three dozen books and hundreds of magazine articles on computer-related topics. He is best known as the author of "The Complete Hypercard Handbook" (1987, Bantam Books, 650,000 copies in print), "The JavaScript Bible" (1996, IDG Books, 500,000 copies in print), and "Dynamic HTML" (1998, O'Reilly & Associates, 100,000 copies in print). - Tim O'Reilly
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Paul Graham (b. Weymouth, England, 1964) is a Lisp programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is the author of "On Lisp" (1993), "ANSI Common Lisp" (1995), and "Hackers & Painters" (2004). - Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is a self-described authority on emerging digital technology, and considered a founding member of the digerati. Esther Dyson is the daughter of Freeman Dyson, a physicist, and Verana Huber-Dyson, a mathematician, and the sister of the digital technology historian George Dyson. After graduating from Harvard in economics, she joined Forbes as a fact-checker and quickly rose to reporter. - Simon Cozens
Simon Cozens (b. 1978) is a British Perl programmer, author, blogger and missionary. He is a graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford (where he studied Japanese) and All Nations Christian College (where he studied theology and missiology). He is the author of over 100 modules on CPAN, and several books on Perl programming. For several years, he was the administrator of Perl.com, a Perl webzine run by O'Reilly Media, Inc. - Jeffrey Friedl
Jeffrey Friedl (born 1966, "Friedl" sounds like "free-dole") is a software engineer known for his book on regular expressions, "Mastering Regular Expressions" (O'Reilly 1997, 2002, 2006). - Dan Pilone
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Steven Feuerstein is considered one of the world's leading experts on the Oracle database PL/SQL language, having written ten books on PL/SQL, including Oracle PL/SQL Programming and Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices, all from O'Reilly Media. Steven has been developing software since 1980, spent five years with Oracle Corporation (1987-1992) and serves as a Senior Technology Advisor for Quest Software. - Bill Kennedy
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Anton Chuvakin is a computer security specialist, currently Director of Product Management with LogLogic, a U.S. Log Management and Intelligence company. His past positions included a role of a Security Strategist with netForensics, a U.S. Security Information Management company. A physicist by education (M.S. Moscow State University, Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook), … - David Mertz
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Frédéric Lepied is a French computer engineer, and was the CTO of Mandriva until January 2006. Lepied is a graduate of the ESIEE engineering school in France. Frédéric Lepied joined the Mandrakesoft Research and Development team in 1999. He is the author of rpmlint, an RPM packages checker (similar to Debian's lintian program). Lepied was the maintainer of several core packages, including XFree86 and the initscripts. - Simon Carless
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Quinn Norton (b. 1973) is a San Francisco-based journalist, photographer and blogger covering hacker culture, intellectual property and copyright issues, and the cool corners of the Internet. Her work has appeared in "Wired News", The Guardian, and O'Reilly Media publications such as "Make" magazine. She has also been a long-time fixture at O'Reilly's Foo Camp. Ms. - Scot Hacker
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Technology aware Management Consultant with over 25 years experience in multi-national environments. Recent experience has been in delivering programs in the Telecommunications Industry but experience also encompasses other industries that depend upon technology including: - Government; - Energy; - Financial Services; I specialize in rapid deployment of solutions to address business problems using Web 2.0 technologies and techniques. I am looking for project opportunities that will . . . - Tony Stubblebine
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James Reinders, Intel James Reinders will discuss current and future Intel software development tools for the Itanium processor. Reinders is a Senior Engineer who joined Intel Corporation in 1989 and has contributed to projects including the world's first TeraFLOP supercomputer (ASCI Red), compilers and architecture work for the iWarp, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Itanium, and Pentium 4 processors. - Brady Forrest
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Andy Oram looks at the states of copyright, fair use, patent law, and more, as seen through the eyes of attendees at the recent Symposium on Intellectual Property, Creativity, and the Innovation Process. The conference attracted the likes of Marybeth Peters--register of copyrights, IP law critic James Boyle, open source advocate Chris DiBona, and EFF rep Cory Doctorow, to name a few of the people there who've planted stakes in the ground of this seeming turf war. Nov. 10, 2005
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