| Mark Andersen |
Principal Software Engineer, Walt Disney Imagineering
"Backstage Magic: A historical, behind-the-scenes look at the role computers play in Disney's theme park attractions" |
| David Anderson |
Project Director, SETI@home, University of California at Berkeley
"Public Distributed Computing with BOINC" |
| Owen Astrachan |
Professor of the Practice of Computer Science,
Duke University
"A Random Walk Through Computer Science" |
| Thomas Cormen |
Professor of Computer Science, Dartmouth College
"Edna St. Vincent Millay Was Right" |
| Richard "Levelord" Gray |
Veteran Level Designer, Owner, Ritual Entertainment
"Designing and Developing Games using Licensed Properties" |
| Christopher Horvath |
Visual Effects Supervisor / Co-Founder, Tweak Films
"How to use years of extensive training in engineering and the arts to sell popcorn and soft drinks" |
| Guy Kawasaki |
Former Apple Fellow, Chairman, Garage Technology Ventures
"Entrepreneurship" |
| Brad Kuhn |
Executive Director, Free Software Foundation
"Software Freedom After SCO: GPL and the Evolving Free Software Ecosystem" |
| Charles Leiserson |
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, MIT
"Programming Shared-Memory Multiprocessors Using the Cilk Multithreaded Language" |
| Sanjay Patel |
Architecture and Performance Group, Apple Computer, Inc.
"Optimizing for the G5 using Shark" |
| Andrea Pessino |
WarCraft III Designer, Software Developer, Ready At Dawn Studios
"A Real-Time Programmable Particle System Engine" |
| George Stathakopoulos |
Director of Security, Microsoft |
| Bruce Sterling |
Best-selling Cyberpunk author and Wired Magazine columnist, Sterling's Blog
"Shaping Things to Come" |
|
Chris Stockman |
Lead Designer, Volition, Inc.
"Designing and Developing Games using Licensed Properties" |
| Brian Swetland |
Senior Kernel Engineer, Danger, Inc.
"Behind the scenes of the development of the Danger hiptop" |
| Stephen Thaler |
President and CEO, Imagination Engines, Inc.
"The Last, Unanticipated, and Politically Incorrect Step Toward Genuine Machine Intelligence" |
| Nick Triantos |
Chief Software Architect, NVIDIA Corporation
"GPUs: They're Not Just For Your Grandma to Play Quake, Anymore" |
| Jimmy Wales |
Founder, Wikipedia
"Free Knowledge: The Practical Revolution" |
| Philip Zimmermann |
Creator of PGP, Zimmermann's Website
"A perfectly good hour wasted with Phil Zimmermann" |
