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Lawrence G. Roberts

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Lawrence G. Roberts
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Lawrence G. Roberts (born 1937) is associated with the development of the early Internet. He was chairman and CTO of Caspian Networks, but left in early 2004. Caspian ceased operation in late 2006.Roberts is now chairman of Anagran Inc., which he founded. Anagran continues work in the same area as Caspian: IP flow management with improved QoS for the Internet.

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Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
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September 27, 1954) is a programmer and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987. Wall earned his bachelor's degree from Seattle Pacific University in 1976.

While in graduate school at UC Berkeley, Wall and his wife were studying linguistics with the intention afterwards of finding an unwritten language, perhaps in Africa, and creating a writing system for it. They would then use this new writing system to translate various texts into the language, among them the Bible. Due to health reasons these plans were canceled, and they remained in the U.S., where Larry instead joined the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory after he finished grad school.

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Larry McVoy

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Larry McVoy
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Larry McVoy (b. 1962 in Concord, Massachusetts) is the CEO of BitMover, the company that makes BitKeeper, a version control system that was used from February 2002 to early 2005 to manage the source code of the Linux kernel.

He earned BS and MS degrees in Computer Science in 1985 and 1987, respectively, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been employed by Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics and Google. His work generally included performance enhancements to the various Unix operating systems developed by his employers. While McVoy worked at Sun, he worked on a peer-to-peer SCM system named TeamWare that would form the basis of his later BitKeeper product.

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Lance Spitzner

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Lance Spitzner
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The Honeynet Project, led by Lance Spitzner, is a project to develop and analyze computer honeynet and honeypot data, and to further research into how malicious hackers act.

The project itself is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

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Ken Thompson

IRL Name: 
Kenneth Lane Thompson
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Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943), commonly referred to as Ken Thompson, is widely considered to be a pioneer in computer science. notable for his work with the B programming language and his shepherding the Unix and Plan 9 operating systems. Most recently, he was involved in the design of the Go programming language, which was introduced in 2009.

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Ken Williams

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Ken Williams
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Ken Williams (born October 1954) is an American game programmer and co-founder with his wife Roberta Williams of On-Line Systems, which later became Sierra On-Line. Roberta and Ken married at the age of 19 and have two children. The couple have been leading figures in the development of graphical adventure games.

Their contribution to gaming was partially chronicled in the book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Ken was the president of Sierra until the company was sold to CUC in 1996. Vivendi currently holds the Sierra name.

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Brian Behlendorf

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Brian Behlendorf
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Technologist, computer programmer, and an important figure in the open-source software movement. He was a primary developer of the Apache Web server.

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Bill Cheswick

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Bill Cheswick
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Interested in security that's too hard to ensure, passwords that are too hard to remember, graphs that are too hard to visualize, and VCRs that are too hard to program.

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Avi

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Aviel D. Rubin
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Professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University. Teaches courses in computer security and privacy. Primary research interest is the security of electronic voting, and is the director of the NSF ACCURATE Center. He is also an election judge in Baltimore County. Besides his faculty position, he is also the president and founder of a computer security consulting firm called Independent Security Evaluators. His hobbies are photography, soccer, tennis, sailing, golf, billiards, high tech gadgets, and playing with his kids.

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Kingpin

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Joseph Grand / Joe Grand
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Joe Grand is an American electrical engineer, inventor and hardware hacker known in the hacker community as Kingpin. He achieved mainstream popularity after his appearance on Prototype This!, a Discovery Channel television show. He specializes in, "finding security flaws in hardware devices and educating engineers on how to increase the security of their designs".

He was a member of L0pht until its merger with @stake. Along with the rest of L0pht, He testified before Congress on May 19th, 1998, that they could shut down the internet in 30 minutes.

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