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Raph is the founder of Advogato, a community site for free software developers. The trust metric ideas are the basis for his PhD research at UC Berkeley. His day job is maintainer of Ghostscript.
Brandon is a well-known peer-to-peer researcher and co-founder of the Freenet project.
David is one of the founders of and Chief Technology Officer for Open Source Telecom Corporation. He is also the primary author of and active maintainer for a number of packages that are part of the GNU project, including GNU Common C++, GNU ccScript, GNU ccRTP, and GNU ccAudio, as well as the GNU telephony application server, GNU Bayonne. I Also serves as the volunteer chairman of the FSF's DotGNU steering committee, and has served as the community's elected representative to the International Softswitch Consortium.
Rich is a regular contributor to the Bayonne project, and the coordinator of the GNUComm and Voxilla projects. He worked as a software engineer at several silicon valley telephony companies, before founding Open Source Telecom Corporation (OST). OST has been deploying open-source telephony systems since 1999. He has most recently spoken at Defcon 10, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention and the Intel Communications Tech Summit. He organizes the bi-annual Free Telephony Summit.
Paul Lambert is currently in stealth mode and cannot tell anyone anything. However, rumors persist that he has once provided the architectural vision for innovative security products at Motorola, Oracle, Certicom and CoSine Communications. Active in standards, Paul founded the IPsec working group in the IETF and has been recently spotted attending wireless LAN security standards.
Michael has thirty-seven years in CS including: IBM Research staff member, VP Tymeshare Transactions, and VP Chief Scientist Xerox Imaging. Areas of specialization include database design, compiler design, A.I., machine learning, natural language processing, agent base systems
Eric Blossom is CTO of Blossom Research. He is the maintainer of GNU Radio, a toolkit that turns radio reception and transmission into software problems. Prior to his interest in software radio, he was the founder and CTO of Starium, where he was responsible for the design and development of a line of secure telephones.
Matt Ettus, N2MJI, has a Master's Degree in EE from Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied spread spectrum and ad-hoc networks, and both BSEE and BSCS degrees from Washington University in St. Louis. After a couple of years working on GPS systems at Integrinautics Corp., he now does DSP design for Zeevo, Inc, a leading Bluetooth semiconductor company. Matt is a licensed radio amateur (N2MJI) and lives in the Bay Area.
Jim Young is a co-founder of HOTorNOT.com. Jim is also a Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley, where he focuses on embedded system design. Entertainment Weekly named Jim as one of the most creative people in entertainment.
James Hong is a co-founder of HOTorNOT.com and XMethods. James holds an engineering degree and MBA from UC Berkeley. Entertainment Weekly named James as one of the most creative people in entertainment.
Rakan El-Khalil is currently a Computer Science student at Columbia University where he is finishing his Master's Degree. His previous research included applying machine learning techniques to real-time intrusion detection. He is currently interested in reverse engineering, code obfuscation, p2p networking, and improving OpenBSD kernel security. He is the author of the now discontinued KaZaA Linux client 'kza.' In his copious free time, he is an avid musician and plays rock/funk bass.
Andrew is a hacker with a long standing interest in distributed applications. Andrew has worked on systems for major telecommunications and financial institutions, was a Mojo Nation developer, and has contributed to the BitTorrent project. Andrew is also active in the recording of concerts by bands who seek promotion through the free distribution of their performances by their fans.
Nick started writing free software with the PolyJ language, developed as an undergraduate project to add parametric polymorphism to Java. He graduated from M.I.T. with an M.Eng in 2000, and has been working for a startup ever since. Outside of work, he's contributed a few minor patches to the Python language. Nick has been spending his free time on Mixminion since May of 2002.
Dr. Joseph received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1997 after finishing a Cognitive Science thesis entitled "Theory of Adaptive Neural Growth". He subsequently moved to Japan on a Toshiba Fellowship, working for two years on mobile software agents in a Toshiba research laboratory, contributing learning technology to the "Plangent" project. Continuing in Japan, he worked for the internet advertising company ValueCommerce, researching advert personalization and tracking systems. In 2000 he went freelance, starting "NeuroGrid Consulting" and worked with a variety of companies, with projects including Japanese Chat systems, Language Learning Support systems and a Movie Database project. During this period Dr. Joseph wrote a number of articles on Japanese technology for JapanInc magazine and started the NeuroGrid project. Most recently he has been taken on as a Research Associate at the University of Tokyo, Strategic Software Division.
J. Paul Reed started working on web applications in high school--before the Internet was cool--and hasn't stopped since. In addition to serving as project lead on OpenRatings, he is currently the email notification module owner for Bugzilla, the popular open source bug tracking system and the reverse engineer and creator of the Cal Poly Robot Assisted Scheduling Helper (CRASH), a (pirate) course wait-list application which is currently under consideration by Cal Poly's Office of Academic Records for integration into the official registration system. His musings on geek and technology topics have appeared in such publications as the Christian Science Monitor, Slashdot, and Freshmeat.net.
Brian Morris started programming in junior high and has since worked on all sorts of software projects, large and small, open and closed. Starting in high school as systems administrator and software developer, he has since written a scheduling table generator used by many Cal Poly students, worked on a Linux kernel module to prevent root-kit and similar attacks, and was a member of the Discreet Cleaner 5 and Cleaner Central teams. OpenRatings is the first open source project for which he has been a core team member.
Kennan is currently a sophomore studying computer science at Colorado State University. Since his junior year in high school, Kennan has worked for the USDA, assisting with implementing various water models for precision irrigation and water management. In his spare time he maintains ramratings.com. OpenRatings is his first opensource development project.
Dan Kaminsky, also known as Effugas, worked for two years, at Cisco Systems, designing security infrastructures for large-scale network monitoring systems. He recently wrote the Spoofing and tunnelling chapters for "Hack Proofing Your Network: Second Edition", and has delivered presentations at several major industry conferences, including Linuxworld, DefCon, and past Black Hat Briefings. Dan was responsible for the Dynamic Forwarding patch to OpenSSH, integrating the majority of VPN-style functionality into the widely deployed cryptographic toolkit. Finally, he founded the cross-disciplinary DoxPara Research in 1997, seeking to integrate psychological and technological theory to create more effective systems for non-ideal but very real environments in the field. He is based in Silicon Valley, presently studying Operation and Management of Information Systems at Santa Clara University.
Roberto is the project lead for YouServ and is responsible for most of its development, support, and maintenance. Roberto has been a member of the research staff at the IBM Almaden Research Center since 1997. Prior to joining IBM, he received a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Ausin, and M.S. and B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from M.I.T.. Roberto's current interests include p2p and decentralized systems, web services infrastructures, and privacy-preserving technologies.
Dr. Daniel Gruhl is a researcher at IBM's Almaden Research Center. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000, with thesis work on distributed text analytics systems. His interests include stegonography (visual, audio, text and database), machine understanding, user modeling and text analytics.
Currently Dr. Gruhl is the chief architect for IBM's Very Large Scale Text Analytics offering, with responsibility for overall hardware, software and systems design. He is also co-architect of IBM's Unstructured Information Management Architecture.
Len is a communication security consultant specializing in Internet privacy and anonymity technologies. Len has been a strong defender of personal rights through technology. As a volunteer, he has lent his expertise to human rights organizations, victim support groups, and civil liberties organizations. Len is an anonymous remailer operator, and is currently project manager for Mixmaster, the most advanced remailer software available. Previously, he was a software engineer for PGP Security, the provider of the world's best known personal cryptography software. Len is a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as NANOG, BlackHat and DEFCON.
Bram Cohen is author of the highly successful BitTorrent file distribution system, as well as some lesser projects such as Codeville. He is a highly regarded expert on a diverse range of software topics, including user interface design, trust metrics, and cryptography.
Larry McVoy is found of BitMover, creators of the BitKeeper version control system, currently in use for Linux kernel development.
Greg Stein is a Director at CollabNet, where is he in charge of their version control initiatives, which includes the Subversion project. He is also the author of ViewCVS.
Dr. Shapiro is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, where he is also a founding member of the Information Security Institute. His current research focuses on high performance secure operating systems (EROS), configuration management (OpenCM), information assurance, and (most recently) virtual machine technologies.
Dr. Shapiro also has over fifteen years of high-technology experience, primarily in standard-setting product design and competitive strategy definition. He is an experienced technologist and executive with a track record for building leading-edge products and organizations.