- Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock. "Forbes" magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995, … - Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. He is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He and his wife, Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble , currently work at PodTech.net , a video-podcast startup. He is the co-author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers with Shel Israel . - Melinda Gates
Melinda French Gates (born Melinda Ann French on August 15, 1964) is a former unit manager for several Microsoft products: Publisher, Microsoft Bob, Encarta, and Expedia. In 1994, she married Bill Gates, founder, chairman, and former chief software architect of Microsoft. They have three children: Jennifer Katharine Gates (b. April 1996), Rory John Gates (b. 1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (b. 2002). Melinda was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, … - Dare Obasanjo
Dare Obasanjo is a Program Manager at Microsoft where he works on the Contacts team. The Contacts team provides back-end support for Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live Expo, and related services. Obasanjo is also known for RSS Bandit, a popular .NET-based RSS reader he wrote on a whim. He is the son of the former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo. - Bill Hilf
Bill Hilf is the general manager of Platform Strategy driving Microsoft's platform strategy efforts across the company. Bill's primary focus is to champion platform initiatives that cross these groups, while leading long-term strategy planning in the Windows Server and Tools organization. - Craig Mundie
Craig Mundie Image Gallery: A collection of images of Microsoft Chief … A collection of images of Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie . … Angeles: Microsoft Chief Research & Strategy Officer Craig Mundie … - Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi is a computer software executive who, as head of Microsoft's application software group, oversaw the creation of Microsoft's flagship office applications. He now heads his own company, "Intentional Software", with the aim of developing and marketing his concept of Intentional programming. In 2007, he became the fifth space tourist and the second Hungarian in space. His estimated net worth is $1 billion. - Darcy Burner
Darcy Gibbons Burner is a Democrat from Carnation, Washington. She was a candidate for in 2006, but lost to Republican Dave Reichert. In March 2007 she filed her intention to run in the 2008 race for the same district. She worked for a dozen years in high technology including five years at Microsoft as a Group Program Manager, working on .NET. Burner left Microsoft in 2004 to enter politics. - Rob Glaser
Rob Glaser (born ca. 1963), is the founder of RealNetworks (1994) which produced RealAudio, RealVideo, RealPlayer, Helix, among other products and services. Before RealNetworks, he became a millionaire by working for Microsoft for 10 years. Glaser is a graduate of Yale University with a BA and an MA degrees in Economics and a BS degree in Computer Science. Glaser was the 22nd largest individual donor to 527 groups in the 2004 US election, … - Reed Hastings
Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings, Jr.) is the founder of Netflix. He is currently Netflix's chief executive officer, president and chairman of the board, and was the founder of Pure Software. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Microsoft Corp. His father was a lawyer who once served in the Nixon administration, serving as general counsel in the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. - Michael Collins
Michael Collins (born 1964) is an Irish-born author of novels and short stories. The film rights to several of his books have been purchased, and he has also written a screenplay titled "Julia". He was born in Tipperary, Ireland and is a distant relative of the Irish patriot Michael Collins. He grew up in Ireland, where he was a distance runner. - 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. - 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. - Gary Kildall
Gary Arlen Kildall (May 19, 1942 - July 11, 1994) was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur who created the CP/M operating system and founded Digital Research, Inc.(DRI). Kildall was one of the first people to see microprocessors as fully capable computers rather than equipment controllers and to organize a company around this concept. He also co-hosted the PBS TV show "The Computer Chronicles". - Ken Auletta
Ken Auletta is a U.S. media critic for "The New Yorker" from Brooklyn, New York, who has written over 10 books, several of which have become "New York Times" best-sellers. Auletta has written about media empires, the George W. Bush administration, and Microsoft. - Bob Wallace
Bob Wallace (May 29, 1949 - September 20, 2002), was the ninth Microsoft employee, inventor of the term shareware, creator of the word processing program PC-Write, founder of the software company Quicksoft and an "online drug guru" who devoted much time and money into the research of psychedelic drugs. His home in Marin was the location of monthly invitation-only dinners ("Friday night dinners") that were attended by notable people involved in psychedelic drug research. - Ken Lobb
Ken Lobb is a video game designer. He worked for Nintendo in the early 1990s on such video games as "Donkey Kong Country" and "Great Greed", but his "masterpiece" was "GoldenEye 007" for the Nintendo 64, hailed as one of the best shooters of all time. The game included a gun (based on the Vz 61) named after him, the Klobb, short for Kenneth Lobb. This is widely considered the very worst gun in the game. He also worked on "Perfect Dark". - Tim Paterson
Tim Paterson (born 1956) is an American computer programmer, best known as the original author of the popular MS-DOS operating system. Educated at the University of Washington, Paterson worked as a repair technician for a computer store in Seattle, Washington. After he graduated "magna cum laude" in June 1978, he went to work for Seattle Computer Products as a designer and engineer. - 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. - James Allchin
James Edward Allchin (born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1951) is a former executive at Microsoft, where he was responsible for leading the development of a number of Microsoft's operating systems, streaming media products and Internet services. He worked for Microsoft for over 16 years before retiring in early 2007, on the day that Microsoft officially released the Windows Vista operating system to consumers. - Bill Gates
"Swiftwater" Bill Gates was an American frontiersman and fortune hunter, and a fixture in stories of the Klondike Gold Rush. He made and lost several fortunes, and died in Seattle in 1935. Despite the similarity in name and geography, there is no apparent family relationship between "Swiftwater Bill" and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. - Surajit Chaudhuri
Surajit Chaudhuri is a computer scientist best-known for his contributions to database management systems. He is currently a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, where he leads the Data Management, Exploration and Mining group. Chaudhuri is an ACM Fellow. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1991. - William H. Gates Sr.
William Henry Gates, Sr. (born William Henry Gates III on November 30, 1925) is a retired American attorney and philanthropist who is the father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. - 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". - Edward Felten
Edward Felten, a Princeton University computer scientist, hid and disabled the browser with a removal program he wrote while serving as a government witness during the antitrust trial in 1998. But in court, Microsoft adroitly demonstrated that, the way its software is written, Internet Explorer shows up unexpectedly now and then -- no matter how well the program is hidden -- backing its contention that the browser is integral to the operating system. - Mary Maxwell Gates
Mary Maxwell Gates served 18 years (1975-1993) on the University of Washington board of regents. She was the first female president of King County’s United Way, the first woman to chair the national United Way’s executive committee where she served most notably with IBM's CEO, John Akers, and the first woman on the First Interstate Bank of Washington's board of directors. Mary's son Bill Gates is the co-founder of Microsoft. - Richard Rashid
Richard 'Rick' Rashid currently oversees Microsoft Research's worldwide operations. Previously, he was the director of Microsoft Research. He joined Microsoft Research in 1991, and was promoted to vice president in 1994. In 2000, he became senior vice president. He has authored a number of patents in areas such as data compression, networking, and operating systems, and was a major developer of Microsoft's interactive TV system. - Brendan Sullivan
Brendan V. Sullivan, Jr., JD (born March 11, 1942, Providence, Rhode Island) is a Washington, D.C. based criminal defense attorney and a senior partner of the law firm Williams & Connolly. Sullivan is probably best-known for the role he served, in the late 1980s, as defense counsel for United States Marines Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver North in the wake of the Iran-Contra scandal. He also represented former Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Henry Cisneros, … - Linda Ellerbee
Linda Ellerbee , New York USA -- 25.0k to 30.0k Linda Ellerbee is an outspoken journalist, award-winning television producer, best-selling author, one of the most sought-after speakers in America, a breast cancer survivor and a mom. Ellerbee began at CBS, then moved to NBC News, where, after covering politics, she cultivated a diverse following in the '80's with the pioneering late-night news program NBC News Overnight, which she wrote and anchored. - 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). - Scott Oki
Scott Oki (born October 5, 1948 in Seattle, Washington) is a former senior vice-president of sales and marketing for Microsoft who conceived and built Microsoft's international operations. Oki also played a crucial role in Microsoft's rapid domestic growth during the 1980s. Born to a Japanese-American family, Oki attended the University of Washington, but left after 18 months to join the Air Force. While in the service he took courses at the University of Colorado. - Zack Hudgins
Zack Hudgins is the State Representative for Washington State's 11th Legislative District, Position 1. Hudgins worked at Amazon.com as a project manager and program manager with Microsoft, before coming to the Legislature. His background includes several years as a campaign manager for various Democratic Congressional candidates. His District includes Renton, Tukwila and South Seattle. - Larry Millett
Larry Millett (b. 1947 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) is an American journalist and author. He is the former (retired 2002) architectural critic for the "St. Paul Pioneer Press", a daily newspaper in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the author of several books on the history of architecture in Minnesota. He has also written a series of Sherlock Holmes mysteries set in the United States and Minnesota in the 1890s. - Gary Kimura
Gary Dean Kimura is a Professor for the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington and a software developer who worked for Microsoft. Born in 1956, he was brought up in Seattle, Washington. He graduated from University of Washington in 1984 with a doctorate in computing science. After graduating he went to work for DEC in Seattle for Dave Cutler. On 7 November 1988, he moved with the majority of Cutler's team to Microsoft, … - 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. - Kevin Desouza
Kevin C. Desouza, Ph.D, is an Assistant Professor at the Information School at the University of Washington and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington College of Engineering. He serves as the Director of the Institute for National Security Education and Research, … - 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. - Brady Forrest
Brady Forrest is Chair for O'Reilly's Where 2.0 and Emerging Technology conferences. Additionally, he co-Chairs Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Berlin and NYC. Brady writes for O'Reilly Radar tracking changes in technology. He previously worked at Microsoft on Live Search (he came to Microsoft when it acquired MongoMusic). Brady lives in Seattle, where he builds cars for Burning Man and runs Ignite . You can track his web travels at Truffle Honey . - 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. - David Groom
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