William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis at MIT. He is also co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, Applied Minds, Metaweb Technologies, and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work.

Dr. Johnsson's research interests include computational and data grids; high-performance scientific computation; parallel algorithms; adaptive, grid-aware, high-performance software and tools for the creation thereof; and middleware for grids and parallel computers, especially communications-related middleware, performance modeling, and problem-solving environments.

Stephen M. Omohundro (1959 -) is a computer scientist. He graduated from Stanford University with degrees in Physics and Mathematics. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley and published the book "Geometric Perturbation Theory in Physics" based on his thesis. At Thinking Machines Corporation, he developed the Star Lisp, the programming language for the Connection Machine, with Cliff Lasser.

Guy Steele is a Sun Fellow for Sun Microsystems Laboratories, working on the Programming Language Research project.

Bruce Walker Bruce has spent most of his career developing high-performance computing solutions for scientific and commercial applications. He worked at Thinking Machines Corporation for 11 years and was part of the core design team for their massively parallel Connection Machine supercomputers.

David L. Waltz has been Director of the Center for Computational Learning Systems (CCLS) at Columbia University since 2003. He was formerly President of the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, and from 1984-1993 was Director of Advanced Information Systems at Thinking Machines Corporation and Professor of Computer Science at Brandeis University. He had also been Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois for 11 years.

John Mucci John Mucci is a seasoned technology executive who has been involved in most aspects of technical computing in various roles for over 30 years. He has played an important role in DEC’s VAX computer penetration into the scientific markets, as well as a number of critical roles at Thinking Machines Corporation, whose Connection Machine family paved the way for massively parallel processing (MPP) applied to many important commercial and scientific challenges.

Hubert Delany is BackWeb's technology eyes and ears, responsible for ensuring that the company's technological vision is in step with customers' anticipated requirements. He joined BackWeb from the Gartner Group, a leading industry consulting firm, where he was research director for Internet strategies and advanced technologies. He helped launch Gartner's Internet Strategies (INET), the most successful service in the company's history.

Laird has been at the forefront of executive and technical decision making with the Internet for more than 15 years. He is the current chairman of the Information and Content Exchange (ICE) Authoring Group, founded by Sun, Microsoft, Adobe, Vignette and other industry leaders to establish open standards for content syndication.

Working at the interface of computation and philosophy. Contribute to the development of axiomatic ontologies. Publish poetry. Design and develop web sites. Contribute to automated reasoning research and development. Teach and tutor carefully selected private students. Continue to publish in refereed journals. Edit, copy edit, proofread, and index publications in philosophy, mathematics, computer science, physics, chemistry, and other disciplines.

Susan Maxwell - Vice President, Sales Operations and CQO Sue Maxwell leads sales operations and quality control for Cantata Technology. She has been pivotal in achieving excellence in quality assurance and customer support. Most recently, Ms. Maxwell worked in the Lucent Open Network Platforms group, where she was responsible for all aspects of quality management systems, customer support and satisfaction, and early field deployments of the Lucent Softswitch.

Hubert Delany Managing Director , Black Diamond Software Hubert Delany 's career as a technology executive, industry analyst, software engineer, and hardware architect spans over twenty years. Hubert has served as Chief Technology Officer of a number of successful software-related internet companies including G2X software, Backweb Technologies, and Onyx Sciences Corporation.

Diane Meirowitz Diane Meirowitz is a senior developer tools staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., working on x86 compilation and Fortran optimization. She has been in the compiler field for over 20 years, working on all aspects of compiler software, including front ends, middle ends, back ends, and compiler-compilers, for C, C++ and Fortran.

software jack-of-all trades. I like helping people get things done.

John Huffman , Senior Fellow John Huffman is one of our co-founders. Mr. Huffman has served as our Senior Fellow since December 1998. From July 1995 to October 1998, he served as Engineering Department Manager and Medical Market Manager of the Corporate Research and Development Group of Silicon Graphics, Inc., a provider of computing, storage and visualization technology.

Bob Supnik Vice President of Engineering SiCortex, Inc. Bob Supnik brings over 30 years of comprehensive technical leadership and managerial experience to SiCortex. Bob Supnik brings over 30 years of comprehensive technical leadership and managerial experience to SiCortex. Bob's special aptitude for managing large-scale, cutting-edge projects has been strikingly evident throughout his career.

Gordon Linoff is a founder and principal of Data Miners, Inc. He is an expert in the fields of data mining and data warehousing. His experience spans a number of industries, including e-commerce, newspapers and magazines, telecommunications, and banking. With his colleague, Michael Berry, Gordon has authored two of the most widely read and respected books on data mining, Data Mining Techniques and Mastering Data Mining (both published by John Wiley & Sons).

Hong Xia – Vice President of Worldwide Technical Services Hong Xia is responsible for delivering world class technical services in the pre and post sale process for Limelight's next generation content delivery network.

Gyan Bhanot got his PhD in Theoretical Physics from Cornell University in 1979 and has held research positions at IAS, Princeton, Brookhaven Lab, CERN and ITP Santa Barbara. After a few years as Associate Professor of Physics at Florida State University, he joined Thinking Machines Corporation to develop applications for the Connection Machine. He joined IBM in 1994 as a Research Staff Member and has been there since.

Shaw Yang , VP of Business Development, is responsible for business strategies and implementation. From 1994 to 2004, Mr. Yang has held various technical and management leadership positions at Sun MicroSystems Inc, including Hardware Engineering Director responsible for building and managing SUN's Enterprise Server ASIC organization and for developing all of SUN's Enterprise Server Platform ASICs in the Enterprise Server Products Business Group.

Dr. Mani has a Bachelor's degree in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering from Bangalore University, India, a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, and a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia.

Richard Solari VP Analytical Solutions Richard Solari joined InforSense in November of 2006. From 1999 to 2006, Mr. Solari was the Senior Practice Director of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, Oracle Corporation, a leading provider of database technologies and business intelligence solutions.

Lee Crawford Chief Technical Officer, Stadeon Lee Crawford is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Stadeon, a provider of multiplayer gaming infrastructure for the mobile entertainment marketplace. Prior to Stadeon, Crawford served as VP of Engineering and Operations at Shockwave.com, the flagship online entertainment site. At Segasoft Networks, Lee was the Principal Architect of the Dreamcast Network, a global gaming network for the Dreamcast console.

Dr. Anne Trefethen is Acting Director of the UK e-Science Core Programme. She has been the Deputy Director of the programme since July 2001. She is also the Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary e-Research Centre at the University of Oxford. She has been involved in many aspects of e-Science both nationally and internationally.

John Goodhue Vice President of Marketing SiCortex, Inc. John Goodhue brings more than 25 years of technical and managerial experience to SiCortex. John Goodhue brings more than 25 years of technical and managerial experience to SiCortex. His career has been characterized by a range of technology and business ventures that anticipate and meet the needs of an ever-changing marketplace.