- Dare Obasanjo
Dare Obasanjo is a Program Manager at Microsoft where he works on the Contacts team. The Contacts team provides back-end support for Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live Expo, and related services. Obasanjo is also known for RSS Bandit, a popular .NET-based RSS reader he wrote on a whim. He is the son of the former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo.
- David A. Wheeler
David A. Wheeler (born 1965) specializes in developing high-risk software systems, particularly large software systems and computer security. He has written a number of articles on open source software and free software.
- Adam Osborne
Adam Osborne (March 6, 1939 - March 18, 2003) was an American author, book and software publisher, and computer designer who founded several companies in the United States and elsewhere. Osborne's financial success legitimized, in the public mind (and more important, in the investor's mind) the image of the computer innovator as swashbuckling poet and visionary.
- Doug Cutting
Doug Cutting is an advocate and creator of open-source search technology. He originated the Lucene and, with Mike Cafarella, the Nutch open-source search technology projects, which are now managed through the Apache Software Foundation. Prior to developing Lucene, Doug held search technology positions at Excite and Xerox PARC. Lucene, a search indexer, and Nutch, a spider or crawler, are the two key components of an open-source general search platform, …
- Sam Ruby
Sam Ruby is a prominent software developer who has made significant contributions to many of the Apache Software Foundation's open source software projects, and to the standardization of web feeds via his involvement with the Atom web feed standard and the popular Feed Validator web service. He currently holds a Senior Technical Staff Member position in the Emerging Technologies Group of IBM. He resides in Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Daniel J. Bernstein
Daniel Julius Bernstein (sometimes known simply as djb; born October 29, 1971) is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a mathematician, a cryptologist, and a programmer. Bernstein is the author of the computer software qmail, publicfile and djbdns. He has a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from New York University (1991), and a PhD in Mathematics from University of California, Berkeley (1995), studying under Hendrik Lenstra.
- Andrew Filipowski
"'Andrew J. "Flip" Filipowski" a Polish American technology entrepreneur born in 1950 in Chicago IL. He is currently the Executive Chairman and CEO of SilkRoad Equity, a private investment firm, and founded Platinum Technology in 1987. He founded or cofounded Blue Rhino Corporation, Primo Water, SilkRoad technology, inc., DBMS, Inc., the House of Blues, SolidSpace, Inc., onramp Branding, MissionMode and InterAct 911 Corp. He was the COO of Cullinet
- Michael Lang
Michael Lang (born in Windsor,_Ontario in 1968) is a Canadian business executive and Country Manager with AXS-One Inc.. Lang has held several technical sales and management positions in the computer software industry, focusing most recently on the market for electronic records management and electronic discovery software. He was educated at Mohawk College (Business Administration) in Hamilton,_Ontario. Lang is married and has 3 children.
- David Axmark
David Axmark is one of the founders of MySQL AB and a developer of the Free Software database server, MySQL.
- David MacKenzie
David MacKenzie is a famous programmer of the Free Software Foundation and has written many utilities in the GNU operating system.
- Randy Farmer
F. Randall "Randy" Farmer has organized online communities. He is probably most famous for his role creating one of the first graphical online MMOG, Lucasfilm's "Habitat", with Chip Morningstar.
- Avadis Tevanian
Avadis "Avie" Tevanian was the Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Apple Computer from 1997 to 2003, and then the Chief Software Technology Officer from 2003 to 2006. He is also a member of the board of embedded software tools company Green Hills Software. Tevanian was responsible for setting company-wide software technology direction at Apple. Originally from Maine, Avie Tevanian received his B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Rochester, …
- Darksat
Darksat is the alias of a high profile computer software Hacker.
- Surajit Chaudhuri
Surajit Chaudhuri is a computer scientist best-known for his contributions to database management systems. He is currently a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, where he leads the Data Management, Exploration and Mining group. Chaudhuri is an ACM Fellow. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1991.
- Mark Robbins
Mark Robbins (b. Grand Rapids, Michigan 1947) is a computer software author, inventor, visionary, entrepreneur, and reporter. Robbins received a Bachelors Degree from California State University at Northridge in 1975. In 1971, Robbins co-founded the original Dial-A-Joke telephone service. He designed and built the equipment which answered the phone and delivered the jokes. He also designed and built the answering machine used for the Superfone service run by the writer, …
- Stuart Feldman
Stuart Feldman received an A.B. in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University and a Ph.D in Applied Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is best known as the creator of the make computer software for Unix systems. He was also an author of the first Fortran 77 compiler, and he was part of the original group at Bell Labs that created the Unix operating system. Until recently, he was the Vice President of Computer Science at IBM Research.
- Tom Brake
Thomas Anthony Brake, known as Tom Brake British politician. He is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Carshalton and Wallington. Tom Brake was born in Melton Mowbray and educated at the Lycée International School in Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris, and Imperial College London, where he obtained a degree in physics. He was a computer software consultant with Hoskyns from 1983 until his election to Westminster.
- Gary Frisch
Gary Frisch (22 January 1969 - 10 February 2007) was co-founder of the Gaydar website. He was one of the UK's leading gay businessmen. Frisch was born in South Africa. His father, Eric, worked in engineering, and his mother, Rona, was an accountant. He was educated at Boksburg High School and studied computer science at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg while working for De Beers' industrial diamond division.
- Mårten Gustaf Mickos
Mårten Gustaf Mickos is chief executive officer of MySQL AB. He has served as chief executive officer since January 2001. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Mickos was CEO at MatchON Sports. Mickos has a Master's degree in Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology in Finland.
- Anders Ilar
Anders Ilar (born December 1973) is a Swedish electronic musician and producer. Born in Ludvika, Ilar grew up in the little town that is surrounded by woods and lakes, and started playing the piano when he was six. However, he gradually lost interest after he started taking lessons. Instead, he became fascinated with electronic sounds and science fiction, and grew up listening to Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream.
- Luigi Villa
Luigi Villa is a backgammon player from Milan, Italy. In 1979, he was the winner of the first World Championship held in Monte Carlo. The same year, he was defeated in a 7-point match by Hans Berliner's computer program BKG 9.8, becoming the first world champion in any board game to be defeated by a software program. Although Villa's play in the match was stronger, the computer received more favorable dice rolls, winning the match 7-1. The match was played for US$5,000, …
- 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).
- Jay Bhatti
Jay Bhatti trabajó en Microsoft en la gestión de productos. Jay obtuvo su MBA de la Wharton School, y realizó sus estudios en Ingeniería de Sistemas de la Universidad de Rutgers.
- Jude Milhon
Jude Milhon (March 12, 1939 - July 19, 2003), in Anderson, Indiana, best known by her pseudonym St. Jude, was a hacker and author in the San Francisco Bay Area. Milhon coined the term cypherpunk and was a founding member of the cypherpunks. Another term she is credited with coining is hippie, in 1962 in Cleveland. She began programming in 1967, writing software for the Horn and Hardart company.
- Marc Stiegler
Marc Stiegler is a science fiction author and software developer. He co-authored "Valentina: Soul in Sapphire" with Joseph H. Delany. This is the one of the earliest examples of sentient computer software - as opposed to mainframe AI's such as HAL and Colossus.
- Paul Blackford
Paul Blackford is an electronica artist that uses keyboard synthesizers and computer software to create musical pieces. He currently resides in Surrey, London, UK (United Kingdom).
- Robert L. Cook
Robert L. Cook (December 10 1952) is a computer graphics researcher and developer, and the co-creator of the RenderMan rendering software. Cook was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and educated at Duke University and Cornell University. He is now Vice President of Software Engineering at Pixar Animation Studios.
- Fred Plimley
Fred Plimley is President of DK Malaysia Development, LLC and responsible for guiding the strategic direction of the company, business development and day-to-day operations. Fred has successfully created International business strategies affectively presenting Malaysia as the "Gateway" to Asia Pacific and Middle East markets.Other profiles: www.linkedin.com/in/fredplimley - http://www.naymz.com/search/fred/plimley/792293 - http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=113481
- Carlo Branca
I love networking and I have made it my living so feel free to connect with me here or in other social/business networks where you can find me.Do not hesitate to ask me if there is anything I can help you with.Besides networking itself I also love network marketing.I have more than 5 years experience in Europe and work with a fantastic team that cover more than 10 languages and with connections in more than 50 countries.
- Maurizio Taglioretti
- Cezar Maroti
Interested in international business, HR and IT. Born in Romania. Currently working in the Netherlands. Special interest in SAP and recruitment
- Adam Pedersen
Adam Pedersen is a video game programmer and the founder of Adept Software, a company that creates video games and software for other programmers to use. He was born around the 1970s and currently lives in Menlo Park, California in the US. He is married, and he and his wife have a daughter. Pedersen created "Squarez Deluxe" which was released in 1992, and "Jetpack" which was released in 1993.
- R. Brent Tully
R. Brent Tully is an astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu, Hawaii. Tully's specialty is astrophysics of galaxies. He, along with J. Richard Fisher, proposed the now-famous Tully-Fisher relation in a paper, "A New Method of Determining Distances to Galaxies", published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 54, No. 3, in February, 1977.
- Mark Scrimshire
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 . . .
- Sean Mulvihill
13 years sales management experience. Solid, top line performer with vigilant eye for process improvements. Expert communicator able to drive sales traffic to and through the intersection of technology and money. “Dot-com entrepreneur Sean Mulvihill has a salesman’s rapid-patter energy, but a post-bust sense of humility.” - San Jose Business Journal. Also profiled by Entrepreneur.com, NBC TechNow!, The Industry Standard, Silicon Valley Biz Ink (cover story) and Smart Business Magazine.
- Andrew Moffat
- Vittorio U Orefice
Appassionato di comunicazione elettronica in tutte le sue forme ama proporre la collaborazione tra le persone utilizzando reti, software e ... intelligenza umana.
- Gary Hoke PMP
Gary cofounded CubeShield, Inc. in 2002 to bring to market a new office workplace invention. Since inception the company has filed for a patent, partnered with a manufacturer in Hong Kong, licensed trademarks from NCSU, UNC and Duke for the product and has been selling the product online at CubeShield.com. In 2006, CubeShield grew revenues by 86% versus 2005 results. This was significantly due to adoption of the CubeShield product by corporate clients including a large California based . . .
- Steve Ballmer
Steven A. Ballmer is Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing. Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 and was the first business manager hired by Bill Gates . Since then, Ballmer's leadership and passion have become hallmarks of his tenure at the company.
- Domenico Bordiga
Project Manager