 GORDON
STITT (Chair) is President and Chief Executive Officer of Extreme Networks.
One of the co-founders of Extreme Networks, Stitt has served as president
and CEO since the company's inception in 1996, and was named Ernst &
Young's Entrepreneur of the Year for 2001 for Technology and Communication,
Northern California. Prior to Extreme Networks, Stitt co-founded Network
Peripherals and served as vice president of marketing and vice president
and general manager of the OEM Business Unit. He also held executive positions
in corporate marketing at Sun Microsystems and was director of marketing
and sales at Ven-Tel. Stitt holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business,
U.C. Berkeley and a BSEECS degree from Santa Clara University. |
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 JEFF
ULLMAN is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science (Emeritus)
at Stanford University. His interests include database theory, database
integration, data mining, and education using the information infrastructure.
Ullman is the author or coauthor of 16 books and 170 technical publications.
He has served as chair of the computer science program at Stanford, on the
editorial boards of several journals, the National Academy of Engineering,
the NSF advisory panel on Computer Science, the NSF advisory panel on Information,
Robotics, and Intelligent Systems, the Computing Research Association Board,
and numerous technical advisory boards of companies and research institutes
around the world. |
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 DOUG
TERRY is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley.
Terry is currently working on new technology in support of mobile users
and architectures for accessing web services from intermittently connected
devices. Prior to joining Microsoft, Doug was the founder and CTO
of Cogenia, a start-up company that provided a replication platform for
delivering contextually relevant information to mobile devices. Before
Cogenia, Doug was chief scientist of Xerox PARC’s Computer Science Laboratory,
where he helped pioneer the notion of ubiquitous computing and led a number
of research projects on weakly-consistent distributed systems. He
is especially known for his work on epidemic algorithms, collaborative filtering,
the Etherphone system, and the Bayou replicated database. Doug has
a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where he worked on Berkeley
UNIX, developed the first version of the BIND DNS server, and later taught
courses for many years as an adjunct faculty member. |
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 VICTORIA
STAVRIDOU-COLEMAN has recently joined Intel Corporation as a Principal
Research Scientist with a charter to drive the company's trust research
agenda in current and future product lines. She is participating in Intel's
manageability initiatives from a trust perspective and she is driving towards
a cross platform trust strategy across Intel desktop, enterprise and mobile
platforms. Before coming to Intel, she was with SRI International. She joined
SRI in 1998 to head up the dependable systems architecture program after
10 years as a tenured professor in the University of London. She became
the founding Director of SRI's System Design Laboratory (SDL) in the Information
and Computing Sciences Division in 1999. SDL carries out research in dependable
system architectures, intrusion detection, enterprise security management,
adaptable network systems and information interoperability. Formerly, Stavridou-Coleman
served for 10 years as a tenured professor at the University of London,
with visiting and research appointments at Stanford, Oxford, and the University
of Manchester. She is the author of numerous technical papers in the fields
of formal methods, information security, software engineering, safety, avionics,
and hardware verification. |
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 PHIL
ZIMMERMANN is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) which has become
the most widely used email encryption software in the world. Zimmermann
founded PGP Inc. He has received numerous technical and humanitarian awards
for his pioneering work in cryptography. In 2001 Zimmermann was inducted
into the CRN Industry Hall of Fame. In 2000 InfoWorld named him one of the
Top 10 Innovators in E-business. In 1999 he received the Louis Brandeis
Award from Privacy International, in 1998 a Lifetime Achievement Award from
Secure Computing Magazine, and in 1996 the Norbert Wiener Award from Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility for promoting the responsible use
of technology. He also received the 1995 Chrysler Award for Innovation in
Design, the 1995 Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
the 1996 PC Week IT Excellence Award, and the 1996 Network Computing Well-Connected
Award for "Best Security Product." Newsweek also named Zimmermann
one of the "Net 50", the 50 most influential people on the Internet
in 1995. |
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 WESLEY
HIGAKI is Director for University Research at Symantec Corporation.
His responsibilities include developing and supporting university research
and education programs in the area of computer security. Higaki has over
25 years of technical and managerial experience in the software industry
including research and product development experience. He has been with
Symantec since the December 2000 acquisition of Axent Technologies where
he was an engineering director. Prior to Axent, Higaki worked for various
divisions at Hewlett-Packard Company including 7 years at HP Labs. His technical
experience includes development in computer networking, analytical chemistry,
manufacturing applications and computer security. Higaki received a BS in
mathematics from the University of California, Davis and an MSCS degree
from Santa Clara University. |
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 DAN
O'NEILL is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Trusonic, Inc.
the leader in networked music and message delivery to business locations
around the world. Prior to founding Trusonic, O'Neill was the CTO of VU
Net USA, a division of Vivendi Universal responsible for the technical direction
of MP3.com, MP4.com, Pressplay (now Roxio/Napster), Rollingstone.com and
eMusic. From 1999 to 2003 O'Neill was the VP of Engineering at MP3.com where
he assisted in a $370m IPO and lead the engineering effort to design scaleable
systems for media delivery and data management. The Santa Clara University
Leavey School of Business named O'Neill to its IPO Hall of Fame in 2000.
Previously O'Neill was a senior member of the consulting staff at Cadence
Design Systems, Inc. O'Neill holds both a BSME and an MSCS degree from Santa
Clara University. |
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 JEFF
KRENEK is a Senior Consultant at Hewlett-Packard. He has 16 years of
experience in software engineering and engineering management, having held
positions in manufacturing, customer support, software product development,
and partner management. Krenek is currently responsible for managing the
technical relationships with some of HP's key Unix partners, who develop
software products for HP's server product line. Previously, Krenek was a
senior technical contributor in HP's Unix operating system lab, where he
managed the development of new products and features. He also volunteers
as HP's recruiting manager at Santa Clara University, where his team has
successfully mentored and hired a number of students and helped HP become
a preferred industry partner. Krenek holds a BSCSE degree from Santa Clara
University and an MSCS from California State University, Chico. |
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 ROBIN
JEFFRIES is a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer and is currently
the User Experience Architect in Sun's Chief Technologist's Office, where
she works on company-wide issues in product design and usability. Her charter
is to significantly improve Sun's ability to provide products that delight
customers. Dr. Jeffries spent 15 years as a researcher at the University
of Colorado, Carnegie-Mellon University, and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
before coming to Sun. She is the author of over 30 papers in the areas of
human-computer interaction and cognitive science and holds 4 user interface
patents. Dr. Jeffries is also Sun's representative to the Anita Borg Institute
for Women and Technology, where she moderates systers, an international
electronic community of 2500 women in IT. |
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 DARRELL
D. E. LONG is a Professor of Computer Science and Kumar Malavalli Endowed
Professor of Storage Systems Research at the University of California, Santa
Cruz. He is also Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, and Director
of the Storage Systems Research Center in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering.
Dr. Long is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE) and a member of the Computer Society, and at one time served as Chair
of the Technical Committee on Operating Systems, where he now serves on
the Executive Committee. He is a member of the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM), and the Usenix Association, where he served as the Chair
of the Scholars Committee.
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 PATRICK
MANTEY is the Jack Baskin Professor of Computer Engineering, and was
founding Dean of the Baskin School of Engineering, at the University of
California, Santa Cruz. He is one of the founders of CITRIS, and is director
of CITRIS at UC Santa Cruz. His education is in electrical engineering,
and he received his BS (magna cum laude) from the University of Notre Dame,
was a Bacon fellow at the University of Wisconsin, where he received his
MS, and an NSF fellow at Stanford University, where he received his Ph.D.
Dr. Mantey has several patents and numerous publications in his areas of
research. In addition, he has extensive experience in the applications of
computers in advanced applications in space-craft instrumentation, medicine,
transportation, government, utilities, education, and science. He received
awards from IBM for his pioneering work on Geographic Information Systems,
Computer Applications in Power System Control, Image Processing Workstations,
and Image and Record Management.
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DAVID
PATTERSON (Member: 2003-2005) holds the Pardee Chair of Computer
Science at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the
National Academy of Engineering, President of the ACM, a member of the President's
Information Technology Advisory Committee, and a fellow of both the ACM
and the IEEE. He led the design and implementation of RISC I, likely the
first VLSI Reduced Instruction Set Computer. This research became the foundation
of the SPARC architecture, used by Sun Microsystems and others. He was a
leader, along with Randy Katz, of the RAID project, which led to reliable
storage systems from many companies. He is co-author of five books, including
two with John Hennessy, who is now President of Stanford University. Patterson
has been chair of the CS division at Berkeley, the ACM SIG in computer architecture,
and the Computing Research Association. His teaching has been honored by
the ACM, the IEEE, and the University of California. Patterson shared the
1999 IEEE Reynold Johnson Information Storage Award with Randy Katz for
the development of RAID and shared the 2000 IEEE von Neumann medal with
John Hennessy for "creating a revolution in computer architecture through
their exploration, popularization, and commercialization of architectural
innovations."
MIKE
DAVIS is Director of Engineering of General Dynamics Advanced Information
Systems. Recent internal mergers have increased the scope of this engineering
directorate to approximately 900 engineers across multiple locations in
the United States. Prior to General Dynamics, Davis served as a Naval Cryptologic
officer for 12 years, remaining in the Naval reserves and retiring as a
Navy Captain. He began work for GTE Government Systems in 1986 as an electrical
engineer with a focus on digital signal processing and communications, and
accepted his current position after GTE Government Systems was acquired
by General Dynamics. Davis holds a BSEE degree from the University of Florida,
and an MSEE from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey.