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Alexander Tereshkin

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Alexander Tereshkin
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Alexander Tereshkin is an experienced reverse engineer and an expert into Windows® kernel and hardware virtualization, specializing in rootkit technology and kernel exploitation. He is known for his research on sophisticated ideas for novel rootkit creation and personal firewall bypassing in the past years. Recently he has done significant work in the field of virtualization based malware and Microsoft® Vista™ kernel security. He is a co-author of "Understanding Stealth Malware" course. Alex holds the Russian equivalent of a Master's Degree in Applied Mathematics, and also the Russian equivalent of a PhD degree in Information Security from Taganrog State University Of Radioengineering (Southern Federal University).

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Bernd Ulmann
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Dr. Bernd Ulmann was born on July 19, 1970 in Ulm, Germany. He studied mathematics (and philosophy) at the University of Mainz and finished with a diploma thesis about bitstream encryption and pseudo randomnumber generators. He also completed his Ph.D. thesis about analog computing early in 2009 and had his disputation on July, 9th, 2009. His collection of (mostly electronic) analog computers can be seen at analogmuseum.org. He loves old digital computers, especially machines of the PDP11 and VAX series of which he have many models and is into collecting computing instruments and computers which has led to a rather big collection of machines occupying about 500 square meters.

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Tim Berners-Lee

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Tim Berners-Lee
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Born on June 8th, 1955, Berners-Lee is a English Engineer and Computer Scientist who in 1990 with the help of Robert Cailliau and student staff at CERN made the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server on the Internet. As a result, many view him as the creator of the World Wide Web.

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Daniel J. Bernstein
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Daniel Julius Bernstein (sometimes known simply as djb; born October 29, 1971) is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a mathematician, a cryptologist, and a programmer. Bernstein is the author of the computer software qmail, publicfile and djbdns. He has a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from New York University (1991), and a PhD in Mathematics from University of California, Berkeley (1995), studying under Hendrik Lenstra.

Bernstein brought the court case Bernstein v. United States. The ruling in the case declared software as protected speech under the First Amendment, and national restrictions on encryption software were overturned. Bernstein was originally represented by the EFF, but later represented himself despite having no formal training as a lawyer.

In the autumn of 2004, Bernstein taught a course about computer software security, titled "UNIX Security Holes". The 16 members of the class discovered 91 new UNIX security holes. Bernstein, long a promoter of the idea that full disclosure is the best method to promote software security and founder of the securesoftware mailing list, publicly announced 44 of them with sample exploit code. This received some press attention and rekindled a debate over full disclosure.

Bernstein has recently explained that he is pursuing a strategy to "produce invulnerable computer systems". Bernstein plans to achieve this by putting the vast majority of computer software into an "extreme sandbox" that only allows it to transform input into output, and by writing bugfree replacements (like qmail and djbdns) for the remaining components that need additional privileges. He concludes: "I won’t be satisfied until I've put the entire security industry out of work."

In spring 2005 Bernstein taught a course on "High Speed Cryptography". Bernstein demonstrated new results against implementations of AES (cache attacks) in the same time period.

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Martín Abadi

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Martín Abadi
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Martín Abadi is a computer scientist, currently working at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1987 as a student of Zohar Manna.

He is well-known for his work on computer security and on programming languages, including his paper (with Michael Burrows and Roger Needham) on the Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic for analyzing authentication protocols, and his book (with Luca Cardelli) A Theory of Objects, laying out formal calculi for the semantics of object-oriented programming languages.

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Bob Kahn

IRL Name: 
Robert E. Kahn
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Co-designer of the Internet TCP/IP networking protocol. One time director of DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). Dr. Kahn coined the term National Information Infrastructure (NII) in the mid 1980s which later became more widely known as the Information Super Highway. He's also considered one of the, 'Fathers of the Internet', along with Leonard Kleinrock, Vinton Cerf, Lawrence Roberts and Frank Heart.

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Vint Cerf

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Vinton Cerf
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Co-designer of the Internet TCP/IP networking protocol. He's also considered one of the, 'Fathers of the Internet', along with Leonard Kleinrock, Lawrence Roberts, Robert Kahn and Frank Heart.

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Steve Bellovin

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Steve Bellovin
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Bellovin is a researcher on computer networking and security. Currently a professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. He is one of the originators of USENET. He, along with Michael Merritt invented the encrypted key exchange authenticated key agreement methods.

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Michael Leonidas Dertouzos

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Michael Leonidas Dertouzos
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Mr. Dertouzos, a faculty member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1964, became the director of the institute's Laboratory for Computer Sciences in 1974. Under his leadership, the laboratory developed many of the technologies that underlie today's computers, including one of the best-known methods for scrambling data, the RSA encryption system, and innovations that helped bring the World Wide Web into popular use.

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Matt Blaze

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Matt Blaze
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Matt Blaze is a researcher in the areas of secure systems, cryptography, and trust management. He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania; he received his PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University.

In 1993, Blaze published (with John Ioannidis) a paper presenting a protocol ("swIPe") that was to be one of the forerunners of IPsec. In 1994, he found a means to circumvent the wiretapping mechanisms of the Clipper chip, contributing to the death of this government-sponsored initiative. In 2003, he independently rediscovered a serious vulnerability in "master key" security in physical locks that was an open secret among locksmiths; his decision to disclose it publicly provoked controversy.

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