- Ann Rockley
Ann Rockley is the founder and president of The Rockley Group, a Toronto firm specializing in information design, single sourcing, and content management. She has twenty years' experience developing all kinds of online documentation, and has presented papers and workshops around the world. - Brewster Kahle
Aaron joined the Internet Archive in January 2008 to bring full-text search to the archives, as well as an elevated sense of sartorial excellence to the archivists. Previously, he has worked at various technology start-ups in San Francisco and outside of Washington D.C. Aaron graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a B.S in Computer Science. - Jack Vance
John Holbrook Vance (born August 28, 1916 in San Francisco, California) is generally described as an American fantasy and science fiction author, though Vance himself has reportedly objected to such labels. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen. Other pen names include Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, Jay Kavanse. - Roberta Kitto
Engineer and Specialist in Messaging and Collaborative Technologies. Expertise in Lotus Domino Architecture, Lotus Notes Administration and full-scale Collaborative and Workflow Solutions. - Patrick Naughton
Patrick Naughton is one of the original creators of the Java programming language at Sun Microsystems. He is also the original developer of the popular Unix screensaver "xlock". He authored the book The Java Handbook and co-authored the book Java: The Complete Reference. He was also the Chief Technology Officer and President of Starwave and CTO for Disney's Disney Internet Group and Executive Vice President of Products for Go.com and Infoseek. - Atul Chitnis
Atul Chitnis (1962-) is an Indian consulting technologist known for his work in the fields of data networks, internet and intranets, Linux and Free and Open Source Software and mobile computing in India. He is also the founder of FOSS.IN (formerly Linux Bangalore), one of Asia's largest FOSS conferences. - Chris Baldone
Information Technology Manager with broad technical experience and background relating to networking infrastructure, integrated systems, and support of enterprise solutions. Interested in companies seeking to expand with focus on people, technology, and process improvement. - Ericka Hanselman
I am a Recruiter. I am have experience sourcing for Healthcare Professionals, SSL Developers, JAVA Developers, WAP, Forensics and PCI Consultants, Strategy Consultants, SAP, Siebel, Oracle, Sales Executives, and Solution Architects. - Larry Ellison
Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software company. - Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer. The illegitimate son of a notary, Messer Piero, and a peasant girl, Caterina, Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense, "da Vinci" simply meaning "of Vinci": his full birth name was "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci", meaning "Leonardo, … - Paul Graham
Paul Graham (b. Weymouth, England, 1964) is a Lisp programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is the author of "On Lisp" (1993), "ANSI Common Lisp" (1995), and "Hackers & Painters" (2004). - Shiv Nadar
Shiv Nadar is the CEO of Hindustan Computers Limited (HCL), a large information technology company in India. In the 2000 Forbes List of billionaires, he was ranked the 126th richest person in the world, with an estimated personal net worth $3.7 billion. He is nicknamed "Magus", Persian for Wizard. Nadar is from Moolaipozhi Village, Trichendur, Tuticorin District, Tamil Nadu. - Domenico Bordiga
Project Manager - Azim Premji
Azim Hashim Premji (born July 24, 1945) is the Chairman & CEO of Wipro Technologies, which today is one of the largest software companies in India. It has its headquarters in the Indian Silicon City Bangalore. He was rated the richest person in the country from 1999 to 2005 by Forbes. His wealth today is estimated at 58,451 crores INR which places him as the fourth richest Indian; behind DLF Chairman Kushal Pal Singh and ahead of Sterlite Chairman [Anil Agarwal]. - Lakshmi Narayanan
Lakshmi Narayanan is the vice chairman and ex-CEO of Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS). He was the CEO and president of Cognizant till 2006. <sup>[1]</sup> Lakshmi has played a leading role in the global information technology industry for more than 25 years, managing divisions and business units in Europe, India and the United States. - Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay Carson Culkin (born August 26 1980) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Kevin McCallister in "Home Alone" and the title character of "Richie Rich". - Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs, OC, O.Ont (May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-born Canadian urbanist, writer and activist. She is best known for "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" (1961), a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States. The book has been credited with reaching beyond planning issues to influence the spirit of the times. "Jacobs came down firmly on the side of spontaneous inventiveness of individuals, … - Stuart Langridge
Stuart Langridge (also known as 'Aq') is a web and software developer based in the United Kingdom. Langridge is the author of two books, DHTML Utopia, and Run Your Own Web Server Using Linux & Apache (with Tony Steidler-Dennison) for technical publishers SitePoint. Also for SitePoint, he wrote the Stylish Scripting weblog during 2005. Langridge is a member of the Web Standards Project's DOM Scripting Task Force and is an acknowledged commentator on DOM Scripting techniques. - Marc Davis
Marc Davis is founding director of Yahoo! Research Berkeley, and leads Garage Cinema Research. Davis received his Bachelor's degree in 1984 from Wesleyan University, his Masters in Literary Science and Philosophy from University of Konstanz in 1987 and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. Davis was also Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Amova from 1999-2002. He is currently the Social Media Guru at Yahoo! Inc. - 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. - Subhash Kak
Subhash Kak (born March 26, 1947 in Srinagar, Kashmir) is an Indian American computer scientist. He has published material related to cryptography and quantum information. He is notable for publications outside of his field, from an India-centric "Indigenous Aryans" ideology, including history and philosophy of science, ancient astronomy, and history of mathematics. - Claudia Imhoff
Claudia Imhoff is a consultant in the Business Intelligence service. She has co-authored several books and many articles on the subject. Imhoff is also co-author of the "Corporate Information Factory" a methodology for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. Claudia is also a Business Intelligence Network partner. An industry expert and practitioner in the rapidly growing fields of business intelligence and customer focused-strategy – Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D., … - Bonnie Nardi
Bonnie Nardi is best known as the lead author of "Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart", Nardi & O'Day, (MIT Press, 1998). She is widely known among librarians - especially research, reference and digital librarians - for Chapter 7 of Information Ecologies, which focused on librarians as keystone species in information ecologies. - Donald Norman
Donald A. Norman is a professor emeritus of cognitive science at University of California, San Diego and a Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University, but nowadays works mostly with cognitive science in the domain of usability engineering. He also teaches at Stanford University and is a member of the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica. He currently splits his time between consulting and his teaching and research at Northwestern and Stanford. - Edward Tufte
Edward Rolf Tufte (born 1942 in Kansas City, Missouri, to Virginia and Edward E. Tufte), a professor emeritus of statistics, information design, interface design, and political economy at Yale University has been described by "The New York Times" as "the Leonardo da Vinci of Data". He is an expert in the presentation of informational graphics such as charts and diagrams, and is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. - Bhupen Hazarika
Bhupen Hazarika is a multi-faceted artist from Assam, a state in the north-eastern part of India. As a singer, he is known for his wonderfully crisp voice and flawless diction; as a lyricist, he is known for poetic compositions and parables that touch on a wide range of themes---ranging from the erotic to social and political commentary; and as a composer for his use of folk music with a touch of the contemporary. He also participated, first as a child artist, … - Harry Reasoner
Harry Reasoner was an American journalist known for his inventive use of language as a television commentator. Born in Dakota City, Iowa, Reasoner studied journalism at Stanford University and the University of Minnesota. He served in World War II and then resumed his journalism career with "The Minneapolis Times". After going into radio with CBS in 1948, Reasoner worked for the United States Information Agency in the Philippines. - Greg Hollingshead
Gregory "Greg" Hollingshead (born 1947) is a Canadian novelist. He is currently a professor of English at the University of Alberta. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto. - Julian Lombardi
Julian Lombardi (born November 11, 1956) is an American inventor, author, educator, and computer scientist known for his work in information architecture, user interface design and in the design of computer systems that support collaboration between large numbers of users. Lombardi currently serves as Duke University's Assistant Vice President of Academic Services and Technology Support. - 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, … - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (also "Leibnitz" or "von Leibniz" (July 1 (June 21 Old Style) 1646 – November 14 1716) was a German polymath who wrote mostly in Latin and French. Educated in law and philosophy, and serving as factotum to two major German noble houses (one becoming the British royal family while he served it), Leibniz played a major role in the European politics and diplomacy of his day. - Ken Sakamura
born July 25, 1951 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese professor in Information science at the University of Tokyo. He is the creator of the real-time operating system architecture TRON. In 2001, he shared the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Well-Being with Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds. As of 2006, Sakamura leads the ubiquitous networking laboratory (UNL), located in Gotanda, Tokyo as well as the T-Engine forum for consumer electronics. - Claude Shannon
Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 - February 24, 2001), an American electrical engineer and mathematician, has been called "the father of information theory", and was the founder of practical digital circuit design theory. - Theodore Ts'O
Theodore Y. "Ted" Ts'o (born 1968) is a software developer mainly known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, in particular his contributions to file systems. He graduated in 1990 from MIT with a degree in Computing science. After graduation he worked in the "Information Systems & Technology" (IS&T) department at MIT until 1999, where among other things he was project leader of the Kerberos V5 team. After IS&T he went to work for VA Linux Systems for two years. - Uwe Muegge
Uwe Muegge (pronounced ), (b. December 5, 1960) is an innovator and educator in the field of translation. Muegge has developed several controlled languages, a number of tools and processes for automatic terminology extraction and dictionary creation, and is a pioneer in the areas of implementing automated tools for writing source documents in a controlled environment, using machine translation tools, and automatically checking target documents. - Herbert Simon
Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 - February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, computer science, public administration, economics, management, and philosophy of science and a professor, most notably, at Carnegie Mellon University. With almost a thousand, often very highly cited publications, he is one of the most influential social scientists of the 20th century. - Myfanwy Ashmore
Myfanwy Ashmore (born 1970, North York, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian conceptual artist who has been involved in information art, new media art, gameart, video art, interactive art, internet art since 1995. She studied at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design, in 1990, graduated from the Sculpture-Installation department at the Ontario College of Art in 1996, and received her MFA from York University in 1998. As well as being an international exhibiting artist, … - Ken Nomura
is a drifting driver from Japan. He made his debut in the D1 Grand Prix in the 3rd round in 2001, driving the Blitz D1 Spec ER34 Skyline which he still drives. His nickname is Nomuken (のむけん) or Monkey Magic (as a reference to his company). In his youth, Nomura was a baseball player and was very well known within his region, but his career never progressed any further through injury and turned to property developing. - Gordon Parks
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchannan Parks (November 30, 1912 - March 7, 2006) was a groundbreaking African-American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director. He is best remembered for his photo essays for "Life" magazine and as the director of the 1971 film "Shaft".
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