- Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek-American architect and computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of The One Laptop per Child association (OLPC). - John Edwards
John Edwards (born 21 November, 1954, in New York City) is an American technology writer. Edwards has written for various print and online publications, including "The New York Times, The Washington Post, MSNBC, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, CFO Magazine, CIO Magazine, Men's Health," and "American Way" (American Airlines' in-flight magazine). - Bill Thompson
Bill Thompson (born 1960) is a technology writer best known for his weekly column on BBC online and his appearances on Digital Planet, a radio show on the BBC World Service. Born in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, he grew up in Corby. He graduated from Cambridge University in philosophy and with a diploma in computing in 1984. He was a correspondent for the Big Byte on BBC Radio. He began to write for "The Guardian" in 1990, and in 1994 went to work there, … - Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Tim Berners-Lee Founder of the World Wide Web - Larry Magid
Larry Magid A syndicated technology columnist and broadcaster for more than two decades, Larry Magid is an on-air technology analyst for CBS News and frequent contributor to the New York Times, San Jose Mercury News , and other publications. He is the author of several books, including the critically acclaimed Little PC Book . He is coauthor of MySpace Unraveled: What it is and how to use it safely . You can read his blog and columns at www.pcanswer.com. - Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He teaches New Media as an adjunct professor at New York University's (NYU) graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology, how our networks shape culture and vice-versa. - Brad Stone
Brad Stone is an American journalist and writer. He is a technology correspondent for "The New York Times". Stone is an alumnus of Columbia University, having graduated in 1993. In 2003, he published his first book, "Gearheads" (ISBN 0-7432-2951-7), about the combat robot culture. Stone lives in San Francisco with his wife, Jennifer Granick. - Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman is a freelance journalist who edits Wi-Fi Networking News, a widely cited early news blog that covers wireless data networking. Fleishman founded one of the earliest Web development firms, Point of Presence Company, worked at Amazon.com from 1996 to 1997, and runs isbn.nu, a book price comparison service. Fleishman has a degree in art (graphic design) from Yale College, Yale University (1990), … - Andrew Orlowski
Andrew Orlowski (born 1966) is a British columnist for the online IT newspaper "The Register". - Don Tapscott
Don Tapscott is a speaker, author and consultant based in Toronto, specializing in business strategy and organizational transformation. Tapscott is Chief Executive of New Paradigm, which he founded in 1993, and Adjunct Professor of Management, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Tapscott holds a B.Sc. in Psychology and Statistics, and an M.Ed. specializing in Research Methodology. - Tara Calishain
Tara Calishain is an author of a number of technical books. She maintains the ResearchBuzz research and database newsblog. - Ben Hammersley
Ben Hammersley (born April 3, 1976), in Leicester, England) is a British journalist, broadcaster, and photographer, currently based in Florence, Italy. Currently a reporter for the BBC, he previously worked as the first Internet reporter for "The Times", where he was shortlisted for one of the British Press Awards, and as a reporter for The Guardian. During his early career, he specialised in technology journalism, but unlike many technology writers, … - Marc Saltzman
Marc Saltzman was a co-host for the TechTV show, Call For Help and has written a book called "The X-play Insider's Guide to Gaming : All You Ever Wanted to Know About Video Games From G4techTV's Brutally Honest Experts". - Glyn Moody
Glyn Moody is a technology writer. He is best known for his book "Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution" (2001). It describes the evolution and significance of the free software and open source movements with many interviews of all the notable hackers. - Scott Kelby
Scott Kelby (born 1960 in Lakeland, Florida) is an American author and publisher of periodicals dealing in Macintosh and Personal Computer software, specifically for design professionals, photographers, and artists. - Jesse Liberty
Jesse Liberty (born July 10, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York), now living in Massachusetts. Liberty is a best-selling author on Microsoft .NET and has written over a dozen books on .NET, web development and object oriented programming. He has also written dozens of articles for both computer journals and newspapers on both technical and non-technical topics. Currently: Senior Program Manager Microsoft Corporation. Silverlight Development Team. - Martin Fowler
Martin Fowler is a famous author and international speaker on software architecture, specializing in object-oriented analysis and design, UML, Patterns, and agile software development methodologies, including Extreme Programming. Martin Fowler started working with software in the early 80's and has written five popular books on the topic of software development (see "Publications"). In March 2000, he became Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks, … - Nicholas G. Carr
Nicholas G. Carr (born 1959) is an American "business writer and speaker whose work centers on strategy, innovation, and technology." Carr holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A. from Harvard University. Carr wrote the 2004 book "Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press) and the 2003 "Harvard Business Review" article "IT Doesn't Matter." In these works, … - Mark Norris
Mark Norris is a British consultant in the field of software engineering and telecommunications, particularly noted as a prolific writer on technology subjects. Norris has worked in Australia, Europe and Japan in the telecommunications industry (working for some years for BT Group and in academia (holding a position of Visiting Professor at the University of Ulster). - Dave Thomas
Dave Thomas is a computer programmer and author/editor. He has written about Ruby. Dave and partner Andy Hunt wrote the The Pragmatic Programmer and run The Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing company, publishing award-winning and critically acclaimed books for software developers. Dave Thomas lives in Dallas, Texas. He moved to the United States from England in 1994. Dave has also coined the phrase 'Code Kata'. - Tsutomu Shimomura
is a Japanese-American scientist and computer security expert based in the United States, who gained fame when he, together with computer journalist John Markoff, tracked down and helped the FBI arrest hacker Kevin Mitnick. "Takedown", his 1996 book on the subject, was later adapted for the screen in "Takedown" in 2000. - Molly Holzschlag
Molly Holzschlag Former Group Lead and Member Emerita Molly E. Holzschlag is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author. Molly is an invited expert to the Internationalization GEO and HTML working groups at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is the former Group Lead and member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP). Among her thirty-plus books is the recent The Zen of CSS Design, co-authored with Dave Shea. - 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. - Rael Dornfest
Rael Dornfest is Founder and CEO of Portland, Oregon-based Values of n. Rael leads the Values of n charge with passion, unearthly creativity, and a repertoire of puns and jokes - some of which are actually good. - Ross Anderson
Ross J. Anderson is a researcher, writer, and industry consultant in security engineering. He is a professor in security engineering at Cambridge University where he leads the computer security group. In cryptography, he, together with Eli Biham, designed the BEAR, LION and Tiger cryptographic primitives, the block cipher Serpent (with Biham and Lars Knudsen), and the stream cipher Pike. He has also discovered weaknesses in many algorithms (FISH) and security systems. - Richard Bartle
Richard Allan Bartle (born January 10, 1960, in England) is a British writer and game researcher, best known for being the co-author of MUD, the first multi-user dungeon. He is one of the pioneers of the massively multiplayer online game industry. Bartle received a PhD in artificial intelligence from the University of Essex, which is where he created MUD along with Roy Trubshaw, in 1978. - Adele Goldberg
Adele Goldberg (born July 22, 1945) is a computer scientist who wrote or co-wrote books on the programming language Smalltalk-80. She is currently working for Neometron, Inc., of Palo Alto, California. Goldberg was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. In 1994 she was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. - Andy Hunt
Andy Hunt (sometimes credited as Andrew Hunt) is a writer of books on software development. Hunt co-authored "The Pragmatic Programmer", five other books and many articles, and was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto and founders of the Agile Alliance. He and partner Dave Thomas founded the Pragmatic Bookshelf series of books for software developers. - Lynda Weinman
Lynda Weinman is a leading author on web design and web graphics. She first publicized the "web-safe" color palette first discovered by Bruce Heavin. Lynda.com's Online Training Library is the leading provider of online training for creative computer software. As president of Lynda.com, she also oversees the publishing of books, CD-ROM and DVD training materials. In addition, Lynda.com produces conference style events such as the FlashForward conference. - Eugene Kaspersky
Eugene Kaspersky graduated from the Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science. He began studying computer viruses in 1989 after the Cascade virus was detected on his computer. From 1991 to 1997 Eugene worked at the KAMI Information Technologies Center where he developed the AVP antivirus project with a group of associates (AVP was renamed Kaspersky Anti-Virus in November 2000). - Charles Lieber
Charles Lieber (born 1959) is a leading nanoscientist at Harvard University. He holds a joint position between the Department of Chemistry, Chemical Biology, and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Lieber has co-authored over 275 research publications and 25 US patents and is founder of the nanotechnology startup company NanoSys, Inc. - Hans Moravec
Hans Moravec (born November 30 1948 in Austria) is a research professor at the Robotics Institute (Carnegie Mellon) of Carnegie Mellon University. He is known for his work on robotics, artificial intelligence, and writings on the impact of technology. Moravec also is a futurist with many of his publications and predictions focusing on transhumanism. Moravec developed techniques in machine vision for determining the region of interest (ROI) in a scene. - Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world, and an activist for open standards. O'Reilly Media also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and the Web 2.0 Conference. - Jim Highsmith
James A. Highsmith III, commonly, Jim Highsmith (born 1945) is an author of multiple books in the field of software development methodology. He is the creator of a lightweight methodology known as Adaptive Software Development, described in his 1999 book "Adaptive Software Development" (Dorset House Publishing, 1999, ISBN 0-932633-40-4), winner of the 2000 Jolt Award. Working as a principal of Information Architects, Inc., … - Brendan Kehoe
Brendan Patrick Kehoe (born December 3, 1970 in Dublin, Ireland) is a software developer and author. He has written two books as well as technology articles in the specialist press (e.g., in "Boardwatch Magazine") on the topic of the Internet. His first book, "Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide" was the first mass-published user's guide to the Internet. On December 31, 1993, he and a friend, Sven Heinicke, … - Michael Dertouzos
Michael L Dertouzos (November 5, 1936 - August 27, 2001) was a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) from 1974 to 2001. During Dertouzos's term, LCS innovated in a variety of areas, including RSA encryption, the spreadsheet, the NuBus, the X Window System, and the Internet. Dertouzos was instrumental in defining the World Wide Web Consortium and bringing it to MIT. - Michael Abrash
Michael Abrash is a highly regarded technical writer, and one of the top optimization and 80x86 assembly language programmers, a reputation cemented by his 1990 book "Zen of Assembly Language Volume 1: Knowledge." Unfortunately, the original 8086 processor, the focus of the book, was several generations behind the state of the art by the time the book was published. The much anticipated second volume was never published, … - 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. - Stephen L. Nelson
Stephen L. Nelson (b. 1959) is the author of more than 160 books about using personal computers, including "Quicken for Dummies", "QuickBooks for Dummies", "MBA's Guide to Microsoft Excel", and "Excel Data Analysis for Dummies". The Wall Street Journal once called him the Louis L'Amour of computer books because at the time (December 2000), he had written more computer books than any other author. - Michael Morrison
Michael Wayne Morrison (born August 24, 1970) is an American author, software developer, and toy inventor. He is best known for his books on topics including Internet design and development, mobile device usage, and game programming. Morrison's writing career began in the early 1990's and coincided with the release of the Java programming language. He embraced the Java technology and wrote and contributed to numerous Java books, …
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