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Tony Hoare, C. A. R. Hoare

IRL Name: 
Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare
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Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare is a British computer scientist best known for the development (in 1960, at age 26) of Quicksort, a well-known sorting algorithm. He also developed Hoare logic for verifying program correctness, and the formal language Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) to specify the interactions of concurrent processes (including the dining philosophers problem) and the inspiration for the occam programming language.

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Tom Duff

IRL Name: 
Thomas Douglas Selkirk Duff
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Thomas Douglas Selkirk Duff was born on December 8, 1952 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and grew up in Toronto and Leaside. He is a computer programmer and authored the well known "rc" shell for the Plan 9 operating system while working for 12 years at Bell Labs Computing Science Research Center, where he worked and focused on computer graphics, wireless networking, and Plan 9.

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Tim Farley

IRL Name: 
Tim Farley
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Tim Farley is a writer, researcher and computer security technologist from Greater Atlanta Area. Tim has been reverse engineering binary software since the 1980s for both security research and compatibility purposes. He has contributed material based on his compatibility reverse engineering work to the book "Undocumented DOS, 2nd Ed." as well as other books. In 1994 he served as witness on the topic of reverse engineering in the Stac v. Microsoft court case. He has also contributed compatibility code based on reverse engineering work to open source projects such as Wireshark.Tim has participated in computer industry standards committees, has presented at computer security conferences and has written articles for industry magazines.

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snagg

IRL Name: 
Vincenzo Iozzo
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Vincenzo Iozzo leads the collection and analysis of vulnerability intelligence at Trail of Bits. Prior to Trail of Bits, Vincenzo founded Tiqad, an information security consulting firm, worked as a penetration tester for Secure Network srl and was a reverse engineer for Zynamics GmbH. His specialized research in Mac OS X security, smartphone exploitation, and exploit payloads has been presented at information security conferences around the world including Black Hat, CanSecWest and Microsoft BlueHat. In 2008, he was selected to participate in the Google Summer of Code and developed a testing infrastructure for TrustedBSD, the Mandatory Access Control system that became the foundation for sandboxing technologies included in Mac OS X. Vincenzo serves as a committee member on the Black Hat Review Board and is a co-author of the "iOS Hacker's Handbook" (Wiley, 2012). He is perhaps best known for his participation in Pwn2Own, where he co-wrote the exploits for BlackBerryOS and iOS that won the contest in 2010 and 2011 and where he co-wrote exploits for Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari that placed second in 2012.

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