• Stefan Agamanolis

    http://agamanolis.com http://distancelab.org

    Stefan Agamanolis heads Distance Lab, a creative research initiative bringing together technology, design and the arts to redefine and overcome distance.  Stefan has over 10 years of experience inside the MIT Media Lab, and his work and that of his researchers has won a number of awards and has been exhibited in diverse venues including Ars Electronica (Austria), the Osaka National Museum of Art (Japan), the Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), and the Wired NextFest (USA).


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  • Tony Chang

    http://ponderer.org

    Tony Chang is a software engineer and blogger on the Google Chrome team. After graduating with a Master's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004, he joined Google and has been working there since. He has also worked on a number of independent projects, including Webnote.


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  • Raymond Chen

    http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing

    Raymond Chen has been a developer at Microsoft since 1992 and maintains his popular blog The Old New Thing, which deals with Windows history and backwards compatibility. He authored the book The Old New Thing (named after his blog), and writes the Windows Confidential column for Microsoft's TechNet magazine.


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  • Ben Collins-Sussman

    http://red-bean.com/sussman

    Ben is a tech-lead and manager for Google Code's project hosting service. He was one of the founding developers of Subversion, and later helped port it to Google's Bigtable infrastructure. He also has a degree in mathematics, plays banjo, writes musicals, and takes lots of photos.


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  • Douglas Crockford

    http://crockford.com

    Douglas Crockford is a senior JavaScript architect at Yahoo best known for developing JSON. He founded and worked at Electric Communities and State Software until 2001. Since then, he has authored the book JavaScript: The Good Parts, written several articles on JavaScript and regularly talks at conferences.


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  • Brian Fitzpatrick

    http://red-bean.com/fitz/

    Brian Fitzpatrick started Google's Chicago engineering office in 2005. An open source contributor for over 10 years, Brian is the engineering manager for several Google products, a member of both the Apache Software Foundation and the Open Web Foundation, a former engineer at Apple and CollabNet, a Subversion developer, a co-author of "Version Control with Subversion", and a resident of Chicago.


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  • Eric Gregori

    http://emgware.com/

    Eric Gregori is an Embedded Firmware Product Specialist for Freescale Semiconductor. He specializes in robotics and computer vision, and he created the RobotVisionToolkit to provide a simple mechanism for non software types to experiment with advanced software technologies like computer vision, speech recognition, and artificial intelligence.


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  • Robert J. Lang

    http://langorigami.com

    Robert J. Lang is recognized as one of the foremost origami artists in the world as well as a pioneer in computational origami and the development of formal design algorithms for folding. He is a full-time artist and consultant on origami and its applications to engineering problems but moonlights as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics.


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  • Alex Martelli

    http://aleax.it

    Alex Martelli holds a Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica (MSEE) from Bologna University; his publications include books ("Python in a Nutshell", "Python Cookbook"), a chapter in "Beautiful Teams", and many articles, essays, presentations and keynotes, mostly on Python. Since 2005, he works for Google, Inc. in California. He won the 2002 Activators' Choice Award, the 2006 Frank Willison Award for contributions to the Python community, and three Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards from IBM.


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  • Bram Moolenaar

    http://moolenaar.net

    Bram Moolenaar is well known for his work on Vim, a text editor that is available for almost every system.  After studying electronics and working for Océ, a company that makes high volume copying machines, he decided that creating open source software was more useful and fun.  But this doesn't provide much income and he ended up working for Google, one of the few companies that embraces open source software.  In between he worked in Uganda and is still helping poor children there through the ICCF foundation (www.iccf.nl).


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  • Ryan North

    http://qwantz.com

    Ryan North is the author of the comic Dinosaur Comics! About 100,000 people read Dinosaur Comics each and every day! He's got a Master's degree in Computational Linguistics AND an amazing girlfriend, and each of these took about 2 years of hard work.


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  • Sean O'Brien

    http://ducttape.it

    Sean O'Brien is a software engineer at Yahoo! Inc. In mid-2007 he was tasked with developing internal tools to facilitate Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance testing. Along with the Brickhouse team, he was responsible for introducing a new unsupported platform (ruby/rails) into the Y! ecosystem and has been handling the long-lasting effects since. He currently lives near Pasadena, CA with his wife, daughter, and a son on the way.


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  • Alexis Ohanian

    http://alexisohanian.com http://reddit.com

    After graduating from the University of Virginia in June 2005, Alexis Ohanian started reddit.com with Steve Huffman. A history and business double major, he has found countless opportunities to use his knowledge of post-WWII German history while running an Internet startup. A "social" news website, reddit lets readers - not editors - decide what goes on the front page by simply voting content up or down. The model has proved popular thus far, as roughly seven million people visit reddit a month.


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  • Don Stewart

    http://cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons

    An experienced Haskell programmer working for the Research and Development team at Galois, Don Stewart has coauthored the book Real World Haskell and many research papers. Now, he spends his spare time blogging about Haskell and contributing to open source projects such as the xmonad window manager.


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  • Bart Trojanowski

    http://www.jukie.net/~bart/

    Bart Trojanowski is an embedded Linux consultant and driver developer from Ottawa, Canada. Bart has been hacking on big- and small-embedded devices running Linux for over a decade. Most recently his passion has been poured into the android platform. While working, or just hacking, Bart has always depended on source code management (SCM) software to keep his source safe. He's tried countless such tools and settled on Git, and today he wouldn't think of using anything else.


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  • Rob Tsuk

    Rob Tsuk is a Principle Architect at Palm working on current and future versions of webOS. Before Palm, Rob worked on other groundbreaking mobile devices, including the Apple iPod.


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