Dr. James A. Gosling was born on May 19, 1955 near Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is known as the father of the Java programming language. He received a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada in 1977. He received a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983. The title of his thesis was "The Algebraic Manipulation of Constraints". He spent many years as a VP & Fellow at Sun Microsystems. While working towards his doctorate, he wrote a version of Emacs (gosmacs), and before joining Sun Microsystems he built a multi-processor version of Unix while at Carnegie Mellon University, as well as several compilers and mail systems. He has been a contributor to the Real-Time Specification for Java, and a researcher at Sun labs where his primary interest was software development tools.
Paul Asadoorian is the founder of PaulDotCom, an organization centered around the award winning "PaulDotCom Security Weekly" podcast that brings listeners the latest in security news, vulnerabilities, research and interviews with the security industry's finest.
Chris Hadnagy a.k.a loganWHD focuses mainly on the “human” aspect of technology such as social engineering and physical security. Chris has spent time in providing training in many topics and also has had many articles published in local, national and international magazines and journals.
Chris Chavez is a Filipino EC-Council Instructor (CEI), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and Certified Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI) who is one of the EC-Council Lab Contributors. He is a regular consultant for various private and government companies in the Philippines in the areas of information security and computer forensics. He is also a part-time security Instructor and Computer Forensic consultant for various EC-Council training partners in the Philippines in the areas of E-Commerce, Network Security, Digital Forensics, Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures, Computer Hacking and Forensic Investigator, and Disaster Recovery.
Rasmus Lerdorf is a Danish programmer with Canadian citizenship and is most notable as the creator of the PHP scripting language. He started the PHP Project back in 1995 and has been actively involved in PHP development ever since. Also involved in a number of other Open Source projects, Rasmus is a longtime Apache contributor and foundation member. He is the author of the first edition of the PHP Pocket Reference, and the co-author of Programming PHP.
Jonathan Brossard is an Australian Security Researcher who is a speaker at international security conferences such as Blackhat US, CCC, Defcon, Hackito Ergo Sum and the CEO of Toucan System. He created a proof-of-concept backdoor which he called Rakshasa that replaces a computer's BIOS and can compromise the OS at boot time without leaving the traces on the hard drive.
Dr. Eric Cole is a cyber security professional, instructor, keynote speaker, expert witness, and senior fellow with SANS Institute. He has been involved with many startups and has been CTO for several companies that have been successfully acquired including TSGI ($400 million acquisition by Lockheed Martin) and McAfee ($8 billion acquisition by Intel). He has won numerous awards and has over 20 patents in technology and cyber security.
Matthieu Suiche is director and founder of MoonSols. He is a a French Security Researcher and reverse engineer especially know for his recent forensics researchs regarding the Microsoft undocumented hibernation file and his related project called SandMan Framework. He has been speaker in various talk in France, for PacSec in Japan, and Blackhat USA at Las Vegas.
Mickaël Schoentgen is from Metz Area, France who is an infosec enthusiast and the lead developer of Matriux OS (pentesting distro).
Linas Vepstas received a PhD in Physics from SUNY at Stonybrook in 1985. After a postdoc in France, Linas joined IBM as a graphics systems architect, helping build OpenGL 3D graphics hardware & software in the RS/6000 division. After nearly a decade of hands-on experience in business, marketing, and technology, Linas was bit by the dot-com bug and left IBM in 1995.
During a fit of boredom, Linas created the i370 port of gcc, gas and Linux for the IBM S/370 instruction set mainframes, shortly before IBM announced its own separate effort targeting the S/390.