- Scot Hacker
Scot Hacker is the webmaster for the Knight Digital Media Center at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where he also offers technical assistance in multimedia training courses and teaches a class in web development.
- Linus Torvalds
Linus Benedict Torvalds ; born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland, is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel. He now acts as the project's coordinator. Linus was inspired by Minix (an operating system developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum) to develop a capable Unix-like operating system that could be run on a PC. Linux now also runs on many other architectures.
- Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker (born 1942) is an American poet, critic, and reviewer. Her books of poetry include "Going Back to the River" (1990), "Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons" (1986), and "Presentation Piece" (1975), which won the National Book Award.
- Peter Hacker
Peter Michael Stephan Hacker (born 15 July1939 in London) is a British philosopher. His principal expertise is in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is well known for his detailed exegesis of the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and his outspoken criticism of neuroscience-based philosophy.
- Benjamin Thurman Hacker
Rear Admiral Benjamin Thurman Hacker (1935-2003) was a U.S. Navy officer, who became the first Naval Flight Officer (NFO) to achieve Flag rank.
- Arthur Hacker
Arthur Hacker (September 25, 1858 - November 12, 1919) was an English pre-Raphaelite painter. Born in London in 1858, Hacker was the son of a line engraver. In his art he was most known for painting religious scenes and portraits, and his art was also influenced by his extensive travels in Spain and North Africa. He studied at the Royal Academy between 1867 and 1880, and at the Atelier Bonnat in Paris. He was twice exhibited at the Royal Academy, in 1978 and 1910.
- George Hacker
US Lawyer George A. Hacker has headed the Alcohol Policies Project of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) for three decades. He is Co-Chair of the Coalition for the Prevention of Alcohol Problems, whose members include the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD) and many other public health and prevention groups. Between August 1989 and December 1992, Mr.
- Francis Hacker
Francis Hacker was an English soldier and one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England. Hacker was a Parliamentarian Army officer from Nottinghamshire. His family were Royalists — one of his brothers died fighting for the King, another lost a hand in his service. Colonel Hacker commanded the soldiers who guarded King Charles during his trial and controlled access to him.
- Peter Hacker
Peter Hacker (born July 16, 1952) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm medium-fast bowler. Hacker made his County Championship debut for Nottinghamshire in 1975, having played in a tour by the Pakistanis nearly a year previous. He had represented the Second XI since 1973. Hacker spent seven years as the number 11 batsman at Nottinghamshire, between 1975 and 1981, …
- Angela Hacker
Angela Hacker is a country music singer currently signed to Warner Bros. Records. Hacker came into the public eye during the 2007 season of television singing competition "Nashville Star", on which she was declared the winner by fan vote. She is the sister of Zac Hacker, who finished second in the same competition. Angela hails from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. She now lives just across the Tennessee River in Florence, Alabama with her son, Bay Simpson.
- Jeremiah Hacker
Jeremiah Hacker (1801-1895) was a reformer and journalist who lived and wrote in Portland, Maine from 1845 to 1866. Born in Brunswick, Maine to a large Quaker family, Hacker moved to Portland as a young adult where he worked as a penmanship instructor, a teacher, and a shopkeeper. Eventually he sold his shop in 1841 and took to the road as an itinerant preacher during the Second Great Awakening.
- Katharina Häcker
Katharina Häcker is a German figure skater. She is the 2002 German national champion.
- Andrew Hacker
Andrew Hacker (born 1929) is an American political scientist and public intellectual. He is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Queens College in New York. He did his undergraduate work at Amherst College. This was followed by graduate work at Oxford University, University of Michigan, and Princeton University where he received his Ph. D. degree. Hacker taught at Cornell before taking his current position at Queens.
- Zac Hacker
Zac Hacker is a country music singer who came into the public eye during the 2007 season of the televised singing competition "Nashville Star", on which he finished second behind his sister Angela. He is not currently signed to a record label. Zac is currently working on an album beginning in May 2007. He will be working with Billy Lawson on this project. He will be touring with the other three Nashville Star finalists in the Summer of 2007.
- Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American film actress, a former fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as the world's sexiest person and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. After appearing as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film "Lookin' to Get Out", …
- Kevin David Mitnick
Mr. Mitnick will also share specific guidance you can immediately put to use to raise the bar of organizational awareness and mitigate the risk that your wireless network will be the next stepping stone into sensitive corporate data and computing resources. "Mr. Mitnick's presentation was not only informative and entertaining; it also brought home some very relevant information security issues.
- Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation. Builder AU recently caught up with RMS about his achievements, the Free Software movement and his concerns with the US-Australian Free Trade Agreement. He will be in Australia on October 5 to speak at the Builder Conference in Sydney.
- Jennifer Granick
Jennifer Stisa Granick is a criminal defense attorney in San Francisco, California. She defends people charged with computer-related crimes, as well as other offenses. Jennifer has been published in Wired and the magazine for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
- Eric S. Raymond
Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is a computer programmer, author and advocate for the open source movement. His reputation within hacker culture was established when he became the maintainer of the "Jargon File". After the 1997 publication of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", Raymond became a high-profile representative of the open source movement, and is today one of its most recognized and controversial characters.
- Ed Skoudis
Ed Skoudis is a co-founder and Senior Security Analyst with InGuardians, a Washington DC based information security consulting firm. Ed teaches SANS Security 504, "Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling," and 517, "Cutting Edge Hacking Techniques," on a regular basis. Ed's expertise includes hacker attacks and defenses, the information security industry, and computer privacy issues.
- Gary McKinnon
Gary McKinnon, also known as Solo, (born in Glasgow in 1966) is a British hacker accused by the United States of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time." Following legal hearings in the UK it was decided in July 2006 that he should be extradited to the United States. In February 2007 his lawyers argued against ruling in an appeal to the High Court in London, …
- Larry Wall
Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, linguist, and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987. Wall earned his bachelor's degree from Seattle Pacific University in 1976. Wall is the author of the rn Usenet client and the nearly universally used patch program.
- John Markoff
John Markoff (born October 24, 1949) is a journalist best known for his work at the "The New York Times", and a book and series of articles about the 1990s pursuit and capture of hacker Kevin Mitnick.
- Ken Thompson
Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4 1943), commonly referred to as Ken Thompson (or simply Ken in hacker circles), is an American pioneer of computer science notable for his work with the B programming language and his shepherding the UNIX and Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating systems.
- Bruce Perens
Bruce Perens is a former Debian GNU/Linux Project Leader, the primary author of the Open Source Definition, a founder of Software in the Public Interest, founder and first project leader of the Linux Standard Base project, the initial author of BusyBox, a founder of the UserLinux project, and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Perens also has a book series with Prentice Hall PTR called the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series.
- Robert Love
Robert Matthew Love (born September 25, 1981) is an American author, speaker, and open source software developer. He is best known as a Linux kernel hacker, due to his contributions to the Linux kernel, with notable work including the preemptive kernel, process scheduler, kernel event layer, virtual memory subsystem, and inotify. Love is also active in the GNOME community, working on NetworkManager, GNOME Volume Manager, Project Utopia and Beagle.
- Theo de Raadt
Theo de Raadt,, born May 19, 1968 in Pretoria, South Africa, is a software engineer and hacker who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is the founder and leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects. He was also a founding member of the NetBSD project, but a dispute broke out with the NetBSD core team. This complication ultimately led to the creation of the OpenBSD project.
- 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.
- Harald Welte
Harald Welte (born in 1979) is a programmer, living in Berlin, Germany. Within the free software community, Welte is well known as a hacker of the Linux kernel and for his activities in enforcing the GNU General Public License (GPL), the license that governs the use of much of free software. Welte is also involved in Openmoko, a Linux version for low-cost, high-volume phones such as the Neo1973.
- Billy Hoffman
Billy Hoffman, also known as Acidus, is an American hacker, born in Atlanta, Georgia on October 15, 1980.
- 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.
- Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz (born 1969) is an American journalist who covers the cultural impact of science and technology, such as topics on open source software and hacker subcultures. She has written for many periodicals from "Popular Science" to "Wired", and since 1999 has had a syndicated weekly column called "Techsploitation". From 2004-2005 she was a policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- Tom Cross
Tom Cross, also known as Decius, is an American entrepreneur, computer security expert, and hacker. His pseudonym comes from Decius Wadsworth, not the Roman Emperor Decius.
- John Harris
John(athon) D. Harris is a well-known computer programmer, hacker, and author of some classical 1980s Atari computer games. He features in Steven Levy's book "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" as one of the young computer hackers working at Sierra On-Line.
- Rop Gonggrijp
Rop Gonggrijp (born February 14th 1968, Amsterdam) is a Dutch hacker and one of the founders of internet service provider XS4ALL.
- 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, …
- Brian Behlendorf
Brian Behlendorf founded CollabNet, with O'Reilly & Associates , in July 1999. The company provides tools and services based on open source methods. Before launching CollabNet, Behlendorf was co-founder and CTO of Organic Online , a Web design and engineering consultancy located in San Francisco. During his five years at Organic, Behlendorf helped create Internet strategies for dozens of Fortune 500 companies.
- Kim Schmitz
Kim Schmitz aka Kimble (* January 21 1974 in Kiel) is a German self-proclaimed hacker and businessman. In the late 90s Schmitz has gained publicity through his several high profile break-in claims. He was part of the German BBS scene and had his own BBS called "House of Coolness".
- Virgil Griffith
Virgil Griffith (b, 1983), also known as Romanpoet, is an American hacker, best known for his involvement with a 2003 lawsuit with the Blackboard Inc. company. He has also published papers on artificial life.
- Ben Collins
Ben Collins is a former NASA engineer and was the Debian Project Leader from April 2001 to April 2002. He was succeeded in that role by Bdale Garbee. He currently works for Canonical Ltd. as the Linux kernel team leader for Ubuntu. He is married with 3 sons.