- Mark Klein
Mark Klein is a former AT&T technician who leaked knowledge of his company's alleged cooperation with the United States National Security Agency in installing network monitoring hardware to spy on American citizens. The subsequent media coverage became a major story in May 2006.
- Ryan Singel
Ryan Singel is a Wired.com staff writer and co-edits the Threat Level blog. He covers privacy, security, tech policy, internet freedom and civil liberties. His stories run the gamut, ranging from keeping a close eye on Google's privacy practices to keeping tabs on the latest government data-mining project.
- C. Michael Armstrong
C Michael Armstong (born 18 October, 1938, in Detroit, Michigan) is the former AT&T chairman and CEO, who tried to reestablish AT&T as an end-to-end carier. Unfortunately, due to the dot.com boom and various other issues, he was forced to break the group up in 2001. He resigned in 2002 and was succeeded by AT&T President David Dorman. He is also the former CEO of Hughes Electronics, Comcast Corporation & AT&T. Worked for IBM from 1961 to 1992.
- David Dorman
David W. Dorman (born 1954 in Georgia) is an American Telecommunications executive, currently serving on the board of Motorola. In 2000, he took on the task of rebuilding AT&T, whose total stock value had fallen from a high of $110 billion to a low of less than $11 billion. Prior to SBC Communications's acquisition of AT&T Corp. on 18 November, 2005, Dorman was chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T.
- Tom Evslin
Tom Evslin was co-founder (with wife Mary), Chairman, and CEO of ITXC Corp, the world's leading provider of wholesale VoIP. The company grew from startup in 1997 to one of the world's largest carriers of any kind by 2004 when it was acquired. Previously, Tom was responsible for the conception, launch, and operation of AT&T's first ISP, AT&T WorldNet Service which popularized flat rate, all you can eat dialup access.
- Joseph Nacchio
Joseph P. Nacchio (born June 22, 1949), in Brooklyn, New York, was chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Qwest Communications International from 1997 to 2002. He was convicted of 19 counts of insider trading in Qwest stock on April 19, 2007.
- Carrot Top
Carrot Top, born Scott Thompson on February 25, 1965 (though he has claimed in interviews to be born in 1967 and 1969) in Los Angeles, California is an American prop comedian famous for his red hair. According to his official site Carrot Top spends fifteen weeks a year doing live performances in Las Vegas (currently performing at the Luxor Hotel) and does over 100 shows a year on tour. His comedy routine is most known for his comedic use of props.
- Patricia Russo
Patricia Russo (born in 1953, in Trenton, New Jersey) is the current chief executive officer of Alcatel-Lucent, one of the world's largest manufacturing firms. Lucent was a spin-off from AT&T of its Systems and Technology units (AT&T Technologies, Inc., the former Western Electric), and the manufacturing and research and development operations, including Bell Laboratories.
- Jim Gray
James Nicholas "Jim" Gray (born 1944, lost at sea January 28, 2007) is an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998 "for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation."
- Hossein Eslambolchi
Hossein Eslambolchi is a prolific Iranian-American inventor and engineer, best known for his prominent role in AT&T. Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi is currently chairman and CEO of Divvio Inc., a Web portal that allows users to build personalized “channels” of digital multi-media content by leveraging the best and most advanced adaptive learning technologies and Web 2.0 community behavior. He is also chairman of 2020 Venture Partners, …
- Bill Campbell
Bill Campbell is the current Chairman of the Board and former CEO of Intuit Inc. He formerly worked for Apple Inc. (as VP of Marketing), Claris (as CEO), and GO Corporation (as CEO). Son of a local school official, Campbell was born and raised in Homestead, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. He attended Columbia University and starred in football. After graduation he coached Columbia's football team for two unremarkable seasons.
- Steven M. Bellovin
Steven M. Bellovin is a researcher on computer networking and security. He is currently a Professor in the Computer Science department at Columbia University, having previously been a long time employee at AT&T Labs Research in Florham Park, New Jersey. As a graduate student, Bellovin was one of the originators of USENET. He later suggested that Gene Spafford should create the Phage mailing list as a response to the Morris Worm.
- Edward Whitacre Jr.
Edward E. Whitacre, Jr., commonly known as Ed Whitacre, is the former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of AT&T Inc.. Whitacre began his career with Southwestern Bell in 1963 as a facility engineer. In October 1988, Whitacre was made president and chief operating officer of Regional Bell Operating Company, Southwestern Bell Corporation.
- Bobby Rush
Bobby Lee Rush (born November 23 1946) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the 1st District of Illinois, located principally on the south side of Chicago. His district has a higher percentage of African American residents (65%) than any other congressional district in the nation. Rush was born in Albany, Georgia, was educated at Roosevelt University, …
- Saul Bass
Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 - April 25, 1996) was a graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, but he is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences, which is thought of as the best such work ever seen. During his 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including most notably Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese.
- John Draper
John T. Draper (born 1944), also known as Captain Crunch, Crunch or Crunchman (after Cap'n Crunch, the mascot of a breakfast cereal), is a former phone phreak. Draper was the son of a U.S. Air Force engineer; he described his father as distant in an interview published on the front page of the Jan 13-14, 2007, issue of The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Draper himself entered the Air Force in 1964, …
- Andrew Koenig
Andrew Koenig is a former AT&T researcher and programmer known for his work with C++. He is the author of "C Traps and Pitfalls" and his name is associated with Argument dependent name lookup, also known as “Koenig lookup”.
- Chris O'Donnell
Christopher "Chris" Eugene O'Donnell (born on June 26, 1970 in Winnetka, Illinois, USA) is an Golden Globe Award Nominated American actor. O'Donnell is best known for playing Robin in the Batman films, "Batman Forever" and "Batman & Robin".
- Mark Kingdon
Mark E. Kingdon is a hedge fund manager and President of the 5 billion USD "Kingdon Capital Management", an investment management company which he founded in 1983. He previously worked for eight years at another investment firm, "Century Capital Associates". Mark began his career with AT&T as a pension fund administrator. Mark also serves on the Columbia University Board of Visitors.
- Peter Senge
Peter Senge received a B.S. in engineering from Stanford University, an M.S. in social systems modeling and Ph.D. in management from MIT. He lives with his wife and their two children in central Massachusetts. Peter M. Senge is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Henry Schacht
Henry Schacht is an American businessman, a former chairman and chief executive officer of Cummins Diesel (1973-1994), and later CEO of Lucent Technologies. He assumed the latter role in a transitory capacity upon Lucent's spinoff from AT&T, and served from 1995 to 1997. Mr. Schacht was brought back in 2001 to replace Richard McGinn, who had served as Lucent's CEO during the intervening years.
- F. Duane Ackerman
F. Duane Ackerman was the last chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Atlanta-based BellSouth Corporation. A native of Plant City, FL, Mr. Ackerman holds a B.S. in physics and an M.S. from Rollins College, and earned a Master's degree in Management (M.B.A.) from the Sloan Fellows program of the MIT Sloan School of Management. Latest estimates put his total annual compensation at approximately $11.3 million.
- Alex J. Mandl
Alex Mandl , Gemplus’ President and CEO said: “This transaction is an important development for Gemplus, Axalto and the digital security industry as a whole. This merger, with a sound industrial logic, is a win-win that will create value not only for our respective shareholders but also for our clients and employees. We are confident in our ability to deliver significant value to our shareholders.”
- 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.
- John Marks
John R. Marks, III is the Mayor of the City of Tallahassee, Florida. He received his B.S. degree in 1969 from the Florida State University School of Business and his Juris Doctor degree in 1972 from the Florida State University College of Law. Marks served eight years on the Florida Public Service Commission (FPSC) and spent the last two as its Chairman, after being appointed in 1979 by Governor Bob Graham.
- Kent Norman
Kent L. Norman is an American cognitive psychologist and an expert on Computer Rage. He graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1969 and earned a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Iowa in 1973. In 1983, Norman co-founded the Laboratory for Automation Psychology and Decision Processes (LAPDP) as an affiliate of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) and the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS).
- Stephen C. Johnson
Stephen Curtis Johnson spent nearly 20 years at Bell Labs and AT&T, where he wrote Yacc, Lint, and the Portable C Compiler. Steve earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics, but has spent his entire career in computing. He has worked on topics as diverse as computer music, psychometrics, and VLSI design, but he is best known for his work on Unix tools, and the first AT&T UNIX port. He also ran the UNIX System V language development department for several years in the mid-1980s.
- Charles F. Knight
Charles F. Knight is chairman emeritus of Emerson Electric Co., a manufacturer of electrical, electromechanical and electronic products and systems. He served as chairman of Emerson Electric from 1974 to 2004 and as chief executive officer from 1973 to 2000. He also served as president from 1986 to 1988 and from 1995 to 1997 and was a director of Emerson from 1972 to 2004. Mr. Knight is a director of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., AT&T Inc., BP plc and Morgan Stanley.
- John D. Zeglis
John D. Zeglis (1947-)served as the President of AT&T and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AT&T Wireless.
- Neil Gershenfeld
Let's start with the development of "personal fabrication." We've already had a digital revolution; we don't need to keep having it. The next big thing in computers will be literally outside the box, as we bring the programmability
- Vladimir Vapnik
Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik is one of the main developers of Vapnik-Chervonenkis theory. He was born in the Soviet Union; received a master's degree in mathematics from the Uzbek State University in Samarkand (now Uzbekistan), in 1958; and received a Ph.D in statistics from the Institute of Control Science in Moscow in 1964. He worked at this institute from 1961 until 1990, and became Head of the Computer Science Research Department.
- August Busch III
August Anheuser Busch III (born June 6, 1937) is the great-grandson of Anheuser-Busch founder Adolphus Busch and was the company's Chairman until November 30, 2006. He is father of President and CEO August Busch IV. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Busch has served as Chairman since 1977 and was Chief Executive Officer from 1975 until June 2002. He served as President from 1974 until June 2002. He has been a Director of AT&T Inc. since October 1983.
- Robert K. Greenleaf
Robert K. Greenleaf (1904-1990) was the founder of the modern Servant leadership movement. Greenleaf was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1904. After graduating from Carleton College in Minnesota, he went to work for AT&T. For the next forty years he researched management, development, and education. All along, he felt a growing suspicion that the power-centered authoritarian leadership style so prominent in U.S. institutions was not working, …
- Richard Lindner
Richard G. Lindner (born 1954 or 1955) is currently the chief financial officer and senior executive vice president of AT&T Inc.. He has served as CFO since 2004 when he was appointed to the position at the former SBC. He attended the University of Missouri-St. Louis where he graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree.
- Kenneth T. Derr
Kenneth T. Derr is a member of the board of directors of the Halliburton Company. He is a Retired Chairman of the Board, Chevron Corporation (international oil company). He served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chevron Corporation, 1989-1999. Derr is also a Director of AT&T Corporation, Calpine Corporation, Citigroup Inc., and Potlatch Corporation. He is also on the Council on Foreign Relations.
- Harold H. Greene
Harold H. Greene was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He was nominated by President Jimmy Carter in 1978. He presided over the antitrust suit that broke up the AT&T vertical market monopoly on the telecommunications industry in the United States. The case, one of Greene’s first after being named to the bench, resulted in the 1982 consent decree between AT&T and the Federal Trade Commission.
- Peter J. Weinberger
Peter J. Weinberger is a computer scientist who works at Google. He worked at AT&T Bell Labs and contributed to the design of the pioneering AWK programming language (he is the "W" in AWK). A detailed explanation of his contributions to AWK and other Unix tools can be found in an interview transcript at Princeton University. Another interview Laurianne McLaughlin, "From AWK to Google: Peter Weinberger Talks Search," IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 3, no.
- B. J. Thomas
B. J. Thomas (born Billy Joe Thomas, 7 August 1942, Hugo, Oklahoma) is a country and pop music/soft rock/easy listening singer.
- Jerry Martin
Jerry Martin is a Jazz and New Age composer, famous for composing songs for TV commercials and also for The Sims and Sim City series. Jerry Martin had music lessons at the age of 10 and played guitar and keyboards in various ensembles through his high school and college. Jerry Martin received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Composition from California State University at Hayward, California.
- Roel Pieper
Roland ("Roel") Pieper (1956 -) is a Dutch IT-entrepreneur. Pieper was born in Vlaardingen, son of an engineer at a car manufacturer. His father died when Pieper was 12, and on his 18th birthday he was subject to a motoring accident which destroyed his sporting career as a player of the Juventus Schiedam basketball team. According to himself, both of these experiences gave him a certain hardness. Pieper obtained his engineer's degree from the Delft University of Technology, …