- Kahn Process Networks
Kahn process networks ("KPNs") is a distributed "model of computation" ("MoC") where a group of processing units are connected by communication channels to form a network of processes. KPNs are also called "process networks". It was originally developed for modeling distributed systems but has proven its convenience for modeling signal processing systems. KPNs have found many applications in modeling embedded systems. - 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. - Douglas Engelbart
Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925 in Oregon) is an American inventor of Swedish and Norwegian descent. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse (in a joint effort with Bill English); as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, … - Frank Kelly
Professor Frank Kelly, FRS (born 28 December 1950) is professor of the Mathematics of Systems in the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge. His research interests are in random processes, networks and optimization, especially in very large-scale systems such as telecommunication or transportation networks. - Phil Hall
Phil Hall (1962-) is a former News and Features editor for the British comics magazine Comics International, as well as the creator and editor of the PDF comics magazine Borderline, which won the Best Comicbook Magazine award at the 2002 British Comicbook Awards. In addition to this he has done work for DC Comics, Marvel Comics and a number of small independent publishers in the UK and USA. Hall created a number of popular comics magazine columns, … - D. R. Fulkerson
Delbert Ray Fulkerson (August 14, 1924 - January 10, 1976) was a mathematician who co-developed the Ford-Fulkerson algorithm, one of the most used algorithms to compute maximal flows in networks. Fulkerson received his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1951. In 1956, he published his famous paper on the Ford-Fulkerson algorithm together with Lester Randolph Ford. - Norman MacRae
Norman Macrae is a British author, born in 1923. Considered one of the world's best forecasters when it came to economics and society, Macrae joined "The Economist" in 1949 and retired as its deputy chief editor in 1988. He foresaw the reversal of nationalization of enterprises, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the spread of the internet, which were all published in the newspaper during his time there. - Lee Leonard
Lee Leonard (born in New York City on April 3, 1929) is an American television personality who was involved in the launch of two of the most influential networks in TV history. - Hamid Jafarkhani
Hamid Jafarkhani, born in 1966 in Tehran, is a Professor in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on communications theory, particularly coding and wireless communications and networks. Prior to studying at the University of Tehran, he was ranked first in the nationwide entrance examination of Iranian universities in 1984. - Paul Jorion
Paul Jorion is by training an anthropologist and a sociologist, with a special interest in the cognitive sciences. Paul was born and raised in Belgium. In an article published in 1999, Jorion offered a new theory of consciousness which goes beyond the Freudian notion that some of our decisions have unconscious motives by suggesting that in fact all our decision-making has unconscious roots, revealing freewill to be an illusion. - Dermot Diamond
Professor Dermot Diamond is an author and academic at Dublin City University - Mark Bloch
Mark Bloch (born January 23, 1956), also known as Pan, P.A.N., Panman, Panpost and the Post Art Network, is an American multi-media artist from Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Since 1982 he has lived in New York City. He is a conceptual artist in the tradition of Dada, the Surrealists, Marcel Duchamp, the Fluxus group and Ray Johnson. Bloch has been interested in digital electronics since 1977 when he created his first computer-related artwork. - Gerard J. Foschini
Gerard J. Foschini, born in Jersey City, New Jersey is a telecommunications engineer who has worked for Bell Laboratories since 1961. His research has covered many kinds of data communications, particularly wireless communications and optical communications. Foschini has also worked on point-to-point systems and networks. Foschini received the B.S.E.E. degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, … - W. Wesley Peterson
W. Wesley Peterson, PhD, is an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is best known for inventing the Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC), for which research he was awarded the Japan Prize in 1999. Peterson is a professor of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has co-authored a number of books on the topic of error correcting codes, … - Ebon Fisher
Ebon Fisher is a transmedia artist working at the intersection of art, biology and digital media. Informed by his exposure to cybernetics and feedback systems at the MIT Media Lab in the mid-1980s, Fisher has approached his work as an evolving collaboration with the world, culminating recently in a nervelike system of ethics conveyed through a transmedia world called The Nervepool. - Jan de Vos
- Ross Dawson
Ross Dawson is an entertaining, engaging and highly interactive speaker who brings critical business topics to life, and leaves participants with practical take-aways on how to achieve success in our rapidly evolving economy. His broad industry and technology expertise allows him to adapt or create topics to match his clients' specific industry and concerns. ROSS DAWSON is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Human Technologies. - Dan Drylewicz
- Ahmed Abdel-Latif
.An Accomplished Manager; ..An Authoritative Team Player; ...An Avid Problem Solver; ....An Astute Communicator; .....An Acknowledged Leader; ......An Ambassadorial Character; .......An Auspicious Overachiever; Professional Profile: A track record of relentless pursuit of over achievement. Distinguished academic credentials in international management and IT perfectly complements professional expertise. Highly motivated, creative and versatile executive with nine years of . . . - John Cleghorn
John Edward Cleghorn, O.C. (born July 7, 1941) is a Canadian businessman and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Bank of Canada from 1994 until 2001. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he graduated from Westmount High School and received a B.Com from McGill University in 1962. While at McGill, he was a defensive lineman for the McGill Redmen football team that won the national championship. In 1964, he became a Chartered Accountant. - Jalynn Bennett
Jalynn H. Bennett, C.M. (born 1943) is a Canadian consultant and corporate director. She is or has been a member of the Board of Directors of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Nortel Networks, Teck Cominco, Sears Canada, Cadillac Fairview, Bombardier, Rexel Canada Electrical, CanWest Global Communications Corporation, Ontario Power Generation, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation, the Ontario government's Public Accountants Council, … - Charles K. Kao
Charles Kuen Kao, Ph.D is a pioneer in the use of fiber optics in telecommunications. He was born in Shanghai in 1933, left in electrical engineering from the University of London in 1957, and then worked as an engineer for Standard Telephones and Cables (STC) and their research centre Standard Telecommunications Laboratories in Harlow, England (now Nortel Networks). He was awarded a PhD in electrical engineering by the University of London in 1965, … - Molly Wood
Molly Wood (born May 23, 1975) is an executive editor at CNET.com and previously a writer for Associated Press, MacHome Journal magazine, and O'Reilly Media. Wood hosts Buzz Out Loud podcast with Tom Merritt and producer Veronica Belmont, and co-hosts the "Gadgettes" podcast with Kelly Morrison. She has an important role in both these podcasts. Wood also hosts video news show called "The Buzz Report" a technology video news column that is published late weekly, … - Ric Holt
Richard C. "Ric" Holt is a computer science professor. Ric Holt was one of the original developers of the Turing programming language, Grok programming language, Euclid programming language, SP/k, and of the S/SL programming language. He also did early research on deadlock theory, operating systems and transcontinental hitchhiking protocols during his pre-Cyber Mennonite youth. After a distinguished career at the University of Toronto, … - Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo (born in Lavia, Finland on July 13, 1953) is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Nokia Corporation and Chairman of Nokia Siemens Networks, a joint venture between Nokia and Siemens AG. - Will Kreth
William E. "Will" Kreth (born 1964 in Los Angeles, California) was the first "official" employee of WIRED magazine, hired by its two founders in 1992. He currently resides in New York City. Since 2005, he has been the Director of Product Management for Interactive TV at Time Warner Cable. With more than eight years working for Time Warner, he has project managed the launch of ITV applications such as eBay on TV, … - Fred Seibert
Fred Seibert (born 1951) is a television and movie producer, and an entertainment executive who has held leading positions with MTV Networks and Hanna-Barbera. Seibert was MTV's first creative director and helped develop its on-air visual identity, creating hundreds of station IDs for the channel. He also commissioned and approved the mutating MTV logo, despite network executives objections to a logo that did not remain constant. - Judy McGrath
Judy McGrath, (born 1952 in Scranton, Pennsylvania)) is the current CEO of MTV Networks. Channels she directs include, other than the music channels, MTV, MTV2, and VH-1, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, and TV Land. She Lives in a small house in New York City. She is working to broaden MTV's reach, with a planned MTV site in Africa. McGrath is a graduate of Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Judy lives in New York and has a daughter named Anna. - Sway Calloway
Sway Calloway, usually credited as Sway, is a reporter for MTV News. He is also the co-host of the internationally syndicated radio show, "The Wake Up Show". - Alan Goodman
Alan Goodman has played a key role in creating and launching many media brands over the past 26 years, first in cable television and now for the internet and other platforms. He began his career as part of the team that built MTV, and with his partner at the time, Fred Seibert, Goodman developed and popularized the world-famous MTV logo. He also produced the channel’s animated IDs and often the music that played behind them, forming the look and sound of the network. - Michael Patterson
Michael Patterson and his wife Candace Reckinger were driving forces behind the early days of MTV. Winners of an MTV award for the animation in a-ha's groundbreaking video for "Take on Me" and "Train of thought", they went on to animate and direct Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract". "Opposites" was nominated for 6 MTV awards and won the Grammy for best music video of the year. The couple also directed videos for Sting, Suzanne Vega, Roy Orbison, Wilson-Phillips, Ian Hunter, … - James Kim
James Kim (August 9, 1971 - December 3/4, 2006) was an American television personality and technology analyst for the former TechTV international cable television network, reviewing products for shows including "The Screen Savers", "Call for Help", and "Fresh Gear". He most recently worked as a senior editor of MP3 and Digital Audio for CNET, writing more than 400 product reviews. He also co-hosted a weekly podcast for CNET's gadget blog, Crave. - Tom Merritt
Tom Merritt (born June 28, 1970) in Greenville, Illinois is an Executive Editor for CNET and the developer and co-host of CNET networks' daily podcast Buzz Out Loud along with Molly Wood and Veronica Belmont. He is known as "The Segue King" for his renowned ability to craft clever transitions between news stories. He is also the author of CNET's "The Real Deal", a regular column & podcast dealing with consumer technology. - Michael Lynn
Michael Thomas Lynn, also known as Abaddon (after the biblical demon), was born in 1980 in Euless, Texas. He is an American computer security expert currently employed by Juniper Networks. Lynn was born on September 6, 1980, the youngest child of four. His parents are Thomas Lynn, a social worker and Baptist minister, and Nancy Taylor, an appeals lawyer. Lynn graduated from Trinity High School in Euless, Texas, … - Pradeep Sindhu
Pradeep Sindhu is the serving Chief Technical Officer of Juniper Networks Inc. Sindhu founded Juniper Networks along with Dennis Ferguson, and Bjorn Liencres in February 1996 in California. The company was subsequently reincorporated in Delaware on March 1998 in and went public on the 25th of June, 1999. Sindhu was instrumental in the architecture, design, and development of the Juniper M40 while running the company. Whilst at the Computer Science Lab of Xerox PARC, … - Frank Dunn
Frank A. Dunn is a Canadian business executive who was the Chief Executive Officer of Nortel Networks. In 2007, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil fraud charges against him, and three former senior executives, in a wide-ranging financial fraud scheme. - Courteney Cox Arquette
Courteney Bass Cox Arquette is an American actress and former fashion model, best known for her role as Monica Geller in the long-running television series "Friends". She now plays Lucy Spiller, an executive editor of a tabloid magazine, on the popular drama "Dirt" on FX Networks. - Greg Kasavin
Gregory A. Kasavin (born 1977 in Moscow) is the former site director and executive editor at the gaming website GameSpot. He attended University of California, Berkeley, where he considered becoming an English professor. Prior to working at GameSpot, he worked on "Newtype Gaming Magazine". He also ran a small website called "Arcadia Magazine", which reviewed video games and pop-culture movies, and eventually led to his internship at GameSpot. - Daniel Terdiman
Daniel Terdiman is a journalist, who has been published in both print and non-print media, including "Time Magazine, The New York Times, Wired Magazine, CNET News.com, Wired News, Martha Stewart Weddings, Salon.com, Business 2.0", and the "San Francisco Chronicle". He writes about a wide range of subjects from hi-tech to the web to sports. He has also made speaking appearances at hi-tech conferences as an expert on electronic game development, … - Jeff Gerstmann
Jeff Gerstmann (born August 1975) is the editorial director at popular gaming website GameSpot. He began working at GameSpot in the fall of 1996, around the launch of VideoGameSpot (back when GameSpot separated PC and console games into completely separate entities). He shares his thoughts on a variety of other subjects every Monday on his GameSpot blog. He has also been quoted by the New York Times as a video game expert, …
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