Terry Semel was born on February 24, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.. His father was a women's coat designer and his mother was a bus company executive. Terry was raised in Bay Terrace, a community in Bayside, Queens. He was the middle child and has two sisters. At the age of 23, he graduated from Long Island University in Brooklyn with a B.S. degree in accounting.

I was the chief information architect at Spock. I'd like to blaze new trails in the world of technology.

Digital Janitor (Emeritus) at Spock.

Doug Luu is an expert systems engineer in the IR department. A veteran Yahoo! Senior Engineer, Mr. Luu took the high road and joined Spock. He's passionate about building highly scalable systems, and mining mountainous volumes of data.He is the inventor of US Pending Patent 620494.When not working, he enjoys playing badminton with his kids Julie and Brian, and spending quality time with his lovely wife Lisa.

Paul J. O'Leary is a engineer at Spock focusing on information extraction, NLP, and data quality.

Sr Software Engineer at Spock.com.

I love to use my traditional “watchdog” instincts to serve communities. But also I have a deep desire to help them develop the power of social networks on the internet.

Here's part of my bio. The entire bio can be found at http://www.itsbeach.com/about.html; Tired of starving, in 1995 I co-founded LVL Interactive and designed and built Egghead.com, then later that year, Cisco's Internet Junction which was their first venture in e-commerce and digital software distribution. I became Chief Information Architect and then CCO of I-Storm Studios specializing in e-commerce development and online product marketing experiences. Our clients included . . .

Have worked with the Ads team & then the data research team at Yahoo. The first gave me a very good idea about Yahoo's core business - advertising. The 2nd (data research) has enabled me to develop a better understanding of user behaviour, products, marketing & competition. Lately I was building an always on, fault tolerant & distributed application platform for easily deploying mobile based applications, with India as the first market. My goal as of now is to do a startup or . . .

Background in software and internet technology product management. Experience spanning creating companies, working on innovative projects within fortune 500 companies and running large operational businesses.

Steven is an Associate and Kauffman Fellow at Clearstone Venture Partners. He joined Clearstone in June 2005.

I am enjoying the vibration of China's Internet industry. It is an amazing world where a few giant companies at Yahoo even Google's level will certainly emerge in the next decade.

Ray has been loitering at the intersection of marketing and the internet since 1994. His experience includes tenures at industry leaders including Microsoft (MSN) and DoubleClick. He was a co-founder of Lemontonic, a Canadian online dating service, and he also sits on the boards of several emerging technology companies. Most recently, Ray leads all business development and strategic alliance activity for Yahoo! in the Canadian market.

Experienced and goal-oriented award winning software engineering manager with a demonstrated track record of leading highly skillful engineering teams to deliver challenging products in time with high quality; Proven expertise in driving efficiency and productivity through motivating team members and using smaller incremental software life cycles; Highly experienced in search engine development, large scale distributed system and web-based application software; Also experienced with . . .