- Michael Arrington
I am the editor of TechCrunch and owner of the TechCrunch Network of blog and podcasting sites.
- Paul Thurrott
Paul Thurrott is the news editor for Windows IT Pro . He writes a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE (http://www.windowsitpro.com/email) and a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE (http://www.wininformant.com).
- Tony Hey
As Corporate Vice President of the External Research Division of Microsoft Research, Tony Hey is responsible for the worldwide external research and technical computing strategy across Microsoft Corp. He leads the company's efforts to build long-term public-private partnerships with global scientific and engineering communities, spanning broad reach and in-depth engagements with academic and research institutions, related government agencies and industry partners.
- 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.
- James Fallows
James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and has worked for the magazine for more than 25 years. He has written for the magazine on a wide range of topics, including national security policy, American politics, the development and impact of technology, economic trends and patterns, and U.S. relations with the Middle East, Asia, and other parts of the world.
- Dan Geer
Dan Geer , co-author of this report , was CTO of @stake Inc. , a vendor that happened to work for Microsoft.
- Jon Udell
Jon Udell is an author, information architect, software developer, and groupware evangelist. He has been an independent consultant, was BYTE Magazine's editor-at-large, executive editor, and Web maven, and once upon a time was a developer at Lotus. In June 2002 he joined InfoWorld as lead analyst, author of the weekly Strategic Developer column, and blogger-in-chief. He also writes a monthly column for the O'Reilly Network.
- David Sirota
David Sirota is the bestselling author of the books "Hostile Takeover" (2006) and "The Uprising" (2008). He is a fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network - both nonpartisan organizations. E-mail him at ds@davidsirota.com.
- 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.
- Ted Lewis
Ted Lewis is Professor of Computer Science and National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School. Prior to January 2002, Lewis was Director, Digital Business Development and Sr. VP of Eastman Kodak Company. Before joining Kodak, Lewis was President and CEO of DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology, North America, Inc., a subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler Corp. He next was Chairman of Computer Science (1993-1997) at NPS.
- John Flowers
John S. Flowers is a technology speaker, engineer, and reformed hacker. He has been involved in a number of technology-related start-up firms, both in Silicon Valley and Kansas, including the network security company nCircle (started in 1998 as Hiverworld.com and later renamed), and the search engine company Kozoru, which was sold to David Warthen, Co-Founder of Ask Jeeves on October 20, 2006.
- Jacob Weisberg
Jacob Weisberg (born 1964) is an American political journalist, currently serving as editor of "Slate" magazine and a columnist for the Financial Times. He is the son of Lois Weisberg, a Chicago social activist and connector celebrated in Malcolm Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point". Weisberg's father, Bernard Weisberg, was a prominent Chicago lawyer and, later, judge. His parents were introduced at a cocktail party by novelist Ralph Ellison.
- Eric Hahn
Eric Hahn is an American entrepreneur who started Collabra Software in 1992. Collabra was an early e-mail-based groupware company. Netscape acquired Collabra in 1995. In 1997 Eric became Netscape's CTO. According to SEC filings Hahn netted approximately $29 million from sales in Netscape stock. Hahn is also the creator of Lookout Software, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2004. Mr. Hahn currently lives in Palo Alto, California with his wife and two sons, …
- Helen Zia
Helen Zia (1952 -) is an American journalist and scholar who has covered Asian American communities and social and political movements for decades. She was born in New Jersey to first generation immigrants from Shanghai. She entered Princeton University in the early 1970s and was a member of its first graduating class of women. As a student, Zia was among the founders of the Asian American Students Association.
- Dahlia Lithwick
Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at "Slate". She writes "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" and has covered the Microsoft trial and other legal issues for "Slate". Before joining "Slate" as a freelancer in 1999, she worked for a family law firm in Reno, Nevada. Her work has appeared in "The New Republic", "ELLE", "The Ottawa Citizen", and "The Washington Post".
- Eileen Gunn
Eileen Gunn (b. June 23, 1945, Dorchester, Massachusetts) is a science fiction author and editor based in Seattle, Washington, who began publishing in 1978. Her story "Coming to Terms", inspired in part by a friendship with Avram Davidson, won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 2004. Two other stories were nominated for the Hugo Award: "Stable Strategies for Middle Management" (in 1989) and "Computer Friendly" (1990).
- Robert Hess
Robert Hess was an associate editor for the magazine MacWEEK and a notable Apple evangelist. He died on January 12, 1996 at age 29 from complications due to pneumonia. Hess published a list of post-expo parties for Macworld Conference & Expo each year. The list is now known as the "Hess Memorial Macworld Expo Events List" and handled by Ilene Hoffman.
- Sunni Brock
- Glenn Gutmacher
Glenn Gutmacher , President of Recruiting-Online.com , developed the Advanced Online Recruiting Techniques seminar in 1997. He can be reached at glenn@recruiting-online.com . This article was first published in Mass High Tech.
- Shirley Povich
Shirley Lewis Povich (July 15, 1905 - June 4, 1998) became a sports columnist and reporter for the Washington Post in 1923. His parents were Jewish migrants from Lithuania. Having grown up in coastal Bar Harbor, Maine, far from a major league team, the first game he ever saw was a game for which he wrote the game story. In 1975, he was recipient of the Baseball Writers Association of America's J.G. Taylor Spink Award, the Baseball Hall of Fame honor for sportswriters.
- Neil Cavuto
Neil Cavuto, Fox's "money guy" (his words) is at times, as regular readers of this site know, very adept at creating the illusion that his show is about "business news" while simultaneously beating the propaganda drums for the Bush administration. Today he was at the top of his game.
- Chris Economaki
Christopher "Chris" Constantine Economaki (born October 15 1920) is a legendary American motorsports commentator, pit road reporter, and journalist. Chris Economaki has been given the title "The Dean of American Motorsports." Microsoft chose Economaki to author the auto racing history portion of its Encarta Encyclopedia.
- Dirk Standen
Mr. Standen had started at CondéNet in 2003 as Deputy Editor, overseeing day-to-day editorial operations on Epicurious.com and Concierge.com. Prior to that, Mr. Standen was Editor-in-Chief of iTurf.com and a Senior Editor at Microsoft's sidewalk.com. Mr. Standen's journalism has appeared in numerous publications, including GQ , Details , Tatler , Food & Wine , and the New York Observer .
- Dr. Peter James
Dr. Peter James aka Boffin1157 born in the late 1950's in the United Kingdom. I currently live, work, and tutor in Northern Romania. I am engaged to Dr. Cristina Felea, teacher, translator and daughter of Romanian Poet & Writer: Victor Felea (1923-1993).Among my numerous qualifications to-date are a degree in Psychology and a 2nd in Forensic Psychology, the latter is my speciality.
- Jim Carr
James Edwin Carr (born December 20, 1965) is a technologist, lecturer, and writer. An advocate for digital literacy, Carr serves on the Board of Directors for the Digital Literacy Institute, a non-profit organization that promotes Technical education and access to Internet technologies for under-served populations. During the Tech boom of the 1990s Carr was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of TechTrain, …
- Angie Louise
ANGIE LOUISE received her BA in Rhetoric (Creative Writing) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, winning a Quinn Fellowship for her writing portfolio, an Academy of American Poets Prize for her poetry, high departmental distinction, a Pape Award for critical scholarship, and two Trelease Fiction Awards for her short fiction.
- Andy Beal
Andy Beal is an internet marketing consultant for MarketingPilgrim.com; specializing in SEO, business blogging, reputation monitoring and business coaching for search marketing firms. Considered one of the world�s most respected interactive and search engine marketing experts, Andy has worked with many Fortune 1000 companies such as Motorola, Lowes, Alaska Air, DeWALT, NBC and Experian.
- Scott Allen
PLEASE NOTE: I accept most contact/introduction requests, but I generally only accept connection requests from people I've actually done some sort of collaboration/work with someone or otherwise built up a professional relationship over time. If we haven't worked together on something, please request contact, not a connection. Let's get to know each other first. I have twenty years of experience as a technology executive, entrepreneur, and consultant. I am currently the Entrepreneurs . . .
- Ian McAllister
Ian McAllister is Professor of Political Science in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He was previously Director of the School (1997-2004) and has held chairs at the University of New South Wales and the University of Manchester. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Aberdeen.
- Don Towsley
Donald Towsley is an American computer scientist, currently Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, where he co-directs the Networking Research Laboratory. He received his B.A. degree in physics and his Ph.D. degree in computer science, both from the University of Texas. Professor Towsley has been a Visiting Scientist at AT&T Labs - Research, IBM Research, INRIA, Microsoft Research Cambridge, …
- Jonathan Grudin
Jonathan Grudin is a Senior Researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group at Microsoft Research. He was previously Professor of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, which he joined after teaching at Aarhus University in Denmark.
- Stan Rapp
Stan Rapp is the legendary direct marketing agency founder, keynote speaker and author of MaxiMarketing, the best-seller that first predicted the turnaround from mass marketing to the individualized marketing model. More than 500,000 copies of MaxiMarketing and the five books that followed have been sold with translations into a dozen languages.
- Tamar E. Granor
Tamar E. Granor , Ph.D. , has developed and enhanced numerous FoxPro and Visual FoxPro applications for businesses and other organizations. She served as Editor of FoxPro Advisor magazine from 1994 to 2000, and is co-author of the magazine’s popular Advisor Answers column. Tamar is a Microsoft Certified Professional and a Microsoft Support Most Valuable Professional. Tamar speaks frequently about Visual FoxPro at conferences and user groups in North America and Europe.
- Andy Oram
Andy Oram looks at the states of copyright, fair use, patent law, and more, as seen through the eyes of attendees at the recent Symposium on Intellectual Property, Creativity, and the Innovation Process. The conference attracted the likes of Marybeth Peters--register of copyrights, IP law critic James Boyle, open source advocate Chris DiBona, and EFF rep Cory Doctorow, to name a few of the people there who've planted stakes in the ground of this seeming turf war. Nov. 10, 2005
- Robert Faletra
Robert Faletra is president of CMP Channel, where he is responsible for all operations, including sales, editorial, marketing and other issues pertaining to the group's print, online, events and research-based products. Robert has had a long and impressive career at CMP. A professional journalist for more than 20 years, he joined the company in 1989 from PC Week . Prior to that, he was a daily newspaper reporter and also has worked on a high-tech start-up magazine.
- Molly
But I will always say: Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambition. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head. Cause some day you might find you're starving and eating all of the words you said. Ani Difranco.
- Foster D. Coburn III
Foster D. Coburn III Foster D. Coburn III is co-author of eight best-selling books on CorelDRAW with the latest being CorelDRAW X3 Unleashed . He is also a Contributing Editor of Recognition Review along with being a contributor to numerous other magazines. Foster has completed more than 45 training videotapes for Keystone Learning Systems on a number of graphics topics. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional, Premier Corel Certified Instructor for CorelDRAW!
- Ged Mead
Ged Mead offers an overview of this book.
- Joshua Hoffman
Joshua Hoffman , Contributing Editor , joined Microsoft in 2001 as an infrastructure consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services, where he advised large commercial, university, and government clients on server and desktop deployments. When he's not working on MSDN Magazine or TechNet Magazine , Joshua enjoys playing the guitar and piano, cooking, and squandering precious resources on new gadgets. He and his wife Jaclyn live in Manhattan.
- Katy
I'm engaged to Andrew, who is so awesome he should be gilt into statue form, like a Greek god. We're getting married in Vegas on January 12! I'm a UW graduate, class of 2006. I recently left my job at the Mercer Island Reporter to work for Amazon and possibly go to law school. If you knew me in high school, I've changed quite a bit -- I'm no longer the prom queen I once was.