- Kim Komando
Currently America's most popular computer/digital lifestyle expert, her weekly talk radio show is heard (via her own network) on over 450 stations. In addition, she does a daily "tip of the day" radio feature heard five days a week; has written seven successful books about life in the digital age; and still authors a widely syndicated newspaper column. Some 4.6 million people receive her tips by e-mail weekly.
- Jonathan Cohen
Jonathan Cohen (born 1970) is a British radio presenter and computer specialist. He should not be confused with Jonathan Cohen the musician and TV presenter.
- Danese Cooper
Danese Cooper is an advocate of open-source software. She is on the board of the Open Source Initiative. She came to public attention for her work at Sun Microsystems on promoting open source, and presently works at Intel. Her father named her after his Alfa Romeo. In her twenties, Cooper was in the Peace Corps and involved in management of the Renaissance Faire in California. She worked on the Options Trading Floor at the Pacific Exchange, …
- Peter Bauer
Peter Bauer (born October 29 1957) is perhaps best known as the Help Desk Director for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). he is the author of a number of books on Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, digital photography, and computer graphics. He also contributes to a number of graphics-related magazines and Internet sites.
- Eric Thomas
Eric Thomas is the founder and CEO of L-Soft. He developed LISTSERV, the electronic mailing list management software, in 1986. LISTSERV was the first software to automate email list management. Before its invention, all email lists had to be administered manually. In 1994, Eric Thomas founded L-Soft to continue developing and marketing LISTSERV. Today, he continues to serve as CEO of L-Soft.
- Gary Price
Gary Price is a librarian, best known for founding ResourceShelf.com and originating Price's List of Lists, "a database of ranked listings of companies, people and resources freely available on the Internet", which is now maintained by others. Currently employed by the search engine Ask.com as Director of Online Information Resources. Price also started DocuTicker a daily updated of new full text reports and documents from government, non-government organizations, …
- Wayne Bell
Wayne Bell was the creator of the WWIV BBS system. The First WWIV BBS went online in St. Louis, MO in December of 1984. His own BBS came to be named Amber, node 1 of the WWIVNet BBS network. Wayne continued to own and develop WWIV software for over a decade, moving to California and becoming an iconic figure in the online world, before the privatization and subsequent expansion off the Internet caused the BBS world to fade in the mid to late nineties.
- Herb Sutter
Herb Sutter is one of the most prominent C++ experts. He is also a book author and a columnist for Dr. Dobb's Journal. His books include: * "Exceptional C++" (Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0-201-61562-2) * "More Exceptional C++" (Addison-Wesley, 2002, ISBN 0-201-70434-X) * "Exceptional C++ Style" (Addison-Wesley, 2005, ISBN 0-201-76042-8) * "C++ Coding Standards" (together with Andrei Alexandrescu, Addison-Wesley, 2005, …
- Bruce Eckel
Bruce Eckel (born July 8, 1957) is the author of numerous books and articles about computer programming. He also gives frequent lectures and seminars for computer programmers. His best known works are "Thinking in Java" and "Thinking in C++", aimed at programmers wanting to learn the Java or C++ programming languages, particularly those with little experience of object-oriented programming.
- Ben Forta
Ben Forta is Adobe's Senior Product Evangelist, and has over two decades of experience in the computer industry in product development, support, training, and marketing. Ben is the author of the best-selling ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit.
- Yakov Rekhter
Dr. Yakov Rekhter joined Juniper Networks in Dec 2000, where he is a Juniper Fellow. Prior to joining Juniper, Yakov worked at Cisco Systems, where he was a Cisco Fellow. Prior to joining Cisco in 1995, he worked at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Yakov Rekhter was one of the leading architects and a major software developer of the NSFNET Backbone Phase II. He co-designed the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). He was also one of the lead designers of Tag Switching, …
- Hakon Haugnes
Hakon Haugnes is one of the founders of the .name top-level domain and is currently the President of The Global Name Registry (GNR). Previously Mr Haugnes was a co-founder of Nameplanet.com.
- George Williams
George Williams (also known as, "George Walton Williams") (b. 1959 in Durham, NC) is a renowned computer programmer and font developer. He is famous for his font editor, converter and creator software FontForge, which was previously called "PfaEdit". Many notable fonts were edited and developed with this versatile cross-platform software. He is also a type designer (font developer) of various fonts since 1987, …
- Watts Humphrey
Watts S. Humphrey is a key thinker in the discipline of the management of software development, often called the father of software quality. His contribution to the software engineering processes resides in the creation of the Software Process Program, which includes the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), the Personal Software Process (PSP) and the Team Software Process (TSP), …
- Bill Inmon
Bill Inmon , world-renowned expert, speaker and author on data warehousing, is widely recognized as the "father of data warehousing." He is creator of the Corporate Information Factory and more recently, creator of the Government Information Factory. He has over 35 years of experience in database technology management and data warehouse design, and he is known globally for his seminars on developing data warehouses.
- Dan Aloni
Dan Aloni (born November 1, 1982) is a software engineer best known for the creation and initial development of the Cooperative Linux OSS project. He now works in XIV. As a self-taught software engineer interested in the software virtualiztion field, back in 2001 he had attempted to port User Mode Linux to Windows using the Cygwin project. Although this attempt has spawned the UML-Win32 project, it didn't manage to take off, …
- Robert Cecil Martin
Known colloquially as "Uncle Bob", Robert Cecil Martin has been a software professional since 1970 and an international software consultant since 1990. He is founder and president of Object Mentor Inc., a team of consultants who mentor their clients in C++, Java, OOP, Patterns, UML, Agile Methodologies, and Extreme Programming. From 1996 to 1999 he was the editor-in-chief of the C++ Report. In 2002 he wrote the "Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, …
- Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (born 1975) is an Open Source Initiative board member. Amongst other things, he is Founding International and Managing Editor of peer-reviewed journal First Monday, and Programme Leader of FLOSS at UNU-MERIT. He has undertaken several global, high-profile studies on Free/Libre/Open-Source Software (FLOSS). His work helps reshape the global understanding of FLOSS, including in the academic world.
- Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Harald Tveit Alvestrand (born 29 June 1959) was the chairman of the Internet Engineering Task Force from 2001 until 2005, and is an author of several important RFCs, many in the general area of Internationalization and localization. He was born in Namsos, Norway, received his education from Bergen Katedralskole and the Norwegian Institute of Technology, and has worked for Norsk Data, UNINETT, EDB Maxware and Cisco Systems, Inc.. He currently (2006) lives in Trondheim, …
- John R. Levine
John R. Levine is an Internet consultant specializing in email infrastructure, spam filtering, and software patents. He chairs the Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG) of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), is a board member of CAUCE (the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email), was a member of the ICANN (Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers) At-Large Advisory Committee, and runs Taughannock Networks.
- Fred Moore
Fred Moore was a political activist who was central to the early history of the personal computer. He was an active member of the People's Computer Company and one of the founders of the Homebrew Computer Club, urging its members to "bring back more than you take". Moore is prominently featured in the book "What the Dormouse Said..." that highlights Fred's contribution to the democratic use of the Internet and computer technology.
- Cliff Shaw
J.C. (Cliff) Shaw was a systems programmer at the RAND Corporation. He was one of the developers of Information Processing Language, a programming language of the 1950s.
- Wei Yen
Dr. Wei Yen and his brother David Yen published the paper "Data Coherence Problem in a Multicache System" along with King-sun Fu which describes a practical cache coherence protocol.
- Fred Baker
Fred Baker was IETF chair from 1996 to 2001, when he was succeeded by Harald Tveit Alvestrand. He has been active in the networking and communications industry since the late seventies, working successively for CDC, Vitalink, ACC, and Cisco Systems. He is currently a Fellow at Cisco, which is to say a senior technologist. He has chaired a number of IETF working groups, including Bridge MIB, DS1/DS3 MIB, ISDN MIB, PPP Extensions, IEPREP, and IPv6 Operations, …
- Rajiv Gupta
Rajiv Gupta is a software pioneer in web services. He was co-inventor and general manager of Hewlett Packard's E-speak project in 1999, and was one of the developers of the IA-64 architecture. He founded Confluent Software (now owned by Oracle Corporation), developing what became an industry-leading CoreSV product. He also founded Securent and supports Bodhtree (based in Hyderabad) as a technology adviser.
- Jeff Prosise
Jeff Prosise is a technical author on Microsoft Windows applications. He is very experienced in Microsoft Windows technologies like MFC, .NET framework, C# and others.
- Christopher Yates
Christopher Yates (born c.1974) was a computer data inputter from Barking, East London who was murdered in November 2004 by a gang of three British Asian Muslims- Sajid Zulfiqar, 25, Zahid Bashir, 23, and Imran Maqsood, 21- all of whom travelled from Ilford. Yates had not long left a musical event, and had seen a friend to her bus. Sometime afterwards, he was set upon outside of the Barking campus of the University of East London and kicked to death.
- 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, …
- Garrett Gruener
Garrett Gruener is founder of Ask.com. He was also a candidate for the 2003 California recall special election from the Democratic Party, finishing 28th in a field of 135 candidates with 2,562 votes. He was one of the candidates to aggressively use the Internet to push his message, and also ran campaign ads in selected television markets.
- Craig Reynolds
Craig Reynolds (born March 15, 1953), is an artificial life and computer graphics expert, who created the Boids artificial life simulation in 1986. Reynolds worked on the film "Tron" (1982) as a scene programmer, and on "Batman Returns" (1992) as part of the video image crew. He is the author of the "OpenSteer" library.
- Joshua Schachter
Joshua Schachter (born 1974) (pronounced) is the creator of del.icio.us, creator of geoURL and co-creator of Memepool. On March 29 2005, he announced he would work full-time on the del.icio.us project. Joshua's popular del.icio.us website helped to popularize the use of tags on the web, particularly within the blogging community. On December 9 2005, del.icio.us was acquired by Yahoo!, Inc. for an undisclosed sum.
- Susan Dumais
Susan Dumais is a Principal Researcher in the Adaptive Systems & Interaction Group of Microsoft Research. Before working at Microsoft, she was one of the pioneers of Latent semantic analysis. In 2006 she was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
- Greg Pfountz
Greg Pfountz is an American computer programmer who created the Color64 BBS system. Color64 was a popular BBS system for Commodore 64 computers.
- Cedric Gore
Cédric Gore is an African American businessman, web developer, musician and early pioneer in the field of Enhanced CD & Interactive CD-ROM technologies. He has founded several software companies focusing on Internet-driven or Web-Connected CD & CD-ROM software products. Javakitty Media, formed in Atlanta in 1999 with his brother James, developed and launched two key Enhanced CD technologies, Bandlink and BlinkCard.
- Cary Karp
Cary Karp, a museum curator based in Sweden, has been instrumental in developing online facilities for museums in the context of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). In particular, he was central in promoting and establishing the ".museum" top-level domain as President of the international Museum Domain Management Association (MuseDoma). He has also been a principal contributor to establishment of standards for registration of internationalized domain names
- John Garmany
John Garmany is a graduate of West Point, an Airborne Ranger and a retired Lt. Colonel with 20+ years of IT experience and an active SECRET security clearance. John is an OCP Certified Oracle DBA with a Master Degree in Information Systems, a Graduate Certificate in Software Engineering, and a BS degree (Electrical Engineering) from West Point.
- Florian Balmer
Florian Balmer (born January 16, 1979) is an independent software developer living in Switzerland. He has created a number of utilities under the GPL, the best known of which is Notepad2
- Robert Madge
Robert Madge is an entrepreneur and technologist. In the 1980s, he founded Madge Networks, a pioneer of high speed networking technology. He is currently the President of IDTrack, a European Association for identification and traceability of goods based on technologies such as RFID. He is also the founder of Olzet, a provider of services associated with the implementation of RFID solutions in the food industry.
- Jack Bicer
Jack Bicer, "Father of Uninstall", created the uninstall concept and wrote the first uninstaller in 1992. He later became a CTO and was the founder of TechBiz Connection, a non-profit technology management association.
- Luke Moloney
Luke Moloney is a new media artist and engineer based in Vancouver, Canada. Since leaving Relic, Luke has gone on to work in the media arts where he applies his technical development, project management and design skills to a diverse range of projects.