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Steve Acheson (S10) is currently a Computer
Security
Analyst at Cisco Systems, Inc. where he is a senior member of the Computer
Information Security Department, responsible for network and system security,
including designing internal security architecture and external/firewall access.
Prior to working for Cisco, Steve managed security for NASA's Numerical
Aerospace Simulations facility at Ames Research Center. He has worked in the
field as a System Administrator, Network Engineer and Security Analyst for over
10 years.
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Eric Allman (M4) is the original author of
sendmail. He
is the author of syslog, tset, the -me troff macros, and trek. He was the chief
programmer on the INGRES database management project, designed database user and
application interfaces at Britton Lee,and contributed to the Ring Array
Processor project at the International Computer Science Institute. He is a
former member of the USENIX Board of Directors.
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Matt Bishop (T6) began working on problems
of com
puter security, and the security ofthe UNIX operating system at Purdue where he
earned his doctorate in 1984. He has taught courses in computer security,
cryptography, operating systems, and software engineering at both Dartmouth
College and at the University of California at Davis, where he teaches now.
Matt's current research interests are analyzing vulnerabilities in operating
systems, protocols, and software in general; denial of service; intrusion
detection; and formal models of access control.
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David N. Blank-Edelman (S11, S15) is the Director of
Technology at the Northeastern University College of Computer Science and the
author of the new O'Reilly book Perl for System Administration. He has spent the
last 14 years as a system/network administrator in large multi-platform
environments including Brandeis University, Cambridge Technology Group, and the
MIT Media Laboratory. He has served as Senior Technical Editor for the Perl
Journal and has written many magazine articles on world music.
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Gerald Carter (M2) has been a member of the
Samba
Team since 1998 and is employed by VA Linux Systems. He is currently working
with O'Reilly Publishing on a guide to LDAP for system administrators. He holds
a master's degree in computer science from Auburn University, where he was also
previously employed as a network and systems administrator. Gerald has published
articles with various Web-based magazines such as Linuxworld and has authored
instructional course for companies such as Linuxcare. He acted as the lead
author of Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours (Sams Publishing.)
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Strata Rose Chalup (T17) began as a
fledgling sysad
min in 1983, and has been leading and managing complex IT projects for many
years, serving in roles ranging from Project Manager to Director of Network
Operations. She has authored several articles on management and working with
teams, and specializes in multi-vendor infrastructure rollouts. Another MIT
dropout, Strata is founder and CEO of VirtualNet Consulting, and applies her
management skills on various volunteer boards, including BayLISA and SAGE.
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Wesley J. Chun (T10, T14) holds computer science, mathematics, and music degrees from the University of California. He is currently a principal at CyberWeb Consulting, specializing in software engineering, Web site design and architecture, corporate training, and technical documentation. He has over a decade of programming and instructional experience, and currently is a coordinator for the Silicon Valley-San Francisco Bay Area Python users group (BayPIGgies), a volunteer moderator for the Python Tutor mailing list, and the author of Core Python Programming, the Python book in Prentice Hall's Core series.
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Mike Ciavarella (T13, T16) has been producing and editing technical
documentation since he naively agreed to write application manuals for his first
employer in the early 1980s. He has been a technical editor for MacMillan Press
and has been teaching system administrators about documentation for the past
four years. Mike has an Honours Degree in Science from the University of
Melbourne in Australia, and is currently a Senior Partner with Cybersource Pty
Ltd, where he heads Cybersource's Security Practice. In his spare time, Mike is
a caffeine addict and photographer.
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Phil Cox (S1, M6) is a consultant for SystemExperts
Corporation, a consulting firm that specializes in system security and
management. Phil frequently writes and lectures on issues bridging the gap
between UNIX and Windows NT. He is a featured columnist in ;login;, the
USENIX Association Magazine and has served on numerous USENIX program
committees. Phil holds a B.S. in computer science from the College of
Charleston, South Carolina.
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Lee Damon (S4) holds a B.S. in speech
communication
from Oregon State University. He has been a UNIX system administrator since 1985
and has been active in SAGE since its inception. He has been a UNIX system
administrator since 1985 and has been active in SAGE since its inception. He
co-developed departmental and company-wide UNIX environments for IBM, GulfStream
Aerospace and QUALCOMM. He is now working in the EE Department at the University
of Washington, and is helping to develop the Nikola UNIX infrastructure there.
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Aeleen Frisch (T7) has been a system
administrator for
over 15 years. She currently looks after a very heterogeneous network of UNIX
and Windows NT systems. She is the author of several books, including
Essential Windows NT System
Administration.
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Peter Baer Galvin (S2) is the chief
technologist for
Corporate Technologies, Inc., and was the systems manager for Brown University's
Computer Science Department. He has written articles for Byte and other
magazines, is systems admnistration columnist for SunWorld, and is
co-author of the Operating Systems Concepts and the Applied Operating
Systems Concepts textbooks. As a consultant and trainer, Peter has taught
tutorials on security and systems administration and has given talks at many
conferences.
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John R. Graham, (M1) is currently on the
faculty at
Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. His dissertation
"Real-time Scheduling in Distributed, Multi-Agent Systems" was an application of
highly threaded and distributed applications used to solve complex science and
business problems. He has worked professional for Sun Microsystems, NASA, Texas
Instruments and Eastman Kodak and as a consultant to clients world-wide. At the
Univesiry he teaches Systems programming, Opearting Systems Design and continues
research in development of
parallel applications.
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Trent R. Hein (S9) is co-founder of Applied Trust Engineering.
Previously,
he was the CTO at XOR Inc., where he focused on using UNIX and Linux
in production-grade commercial environments. Trent worked on the 4.4
BSD port to the MIPS architecture at Berkeley, is co-author of the UNIX
Systems Administration Handbook (and the Linix Administration Handbook,
due out soon), and holds a BS in Computer Science from the University
of Colorado. Email him as trent@atrust.com.
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Craig Hunt (T5) is the author of the
bestsellers "TCP/IP
NetworkAdministration" from O'Reilly and "Linux Network Servers 24seven" from
Sybex. Craig is also the series editor for the Craig Hunt Linux Libraryfrom
Sybex. This library of advanced system administration books includes his new
book "Linux Sendmail Administration". He has more than 20 years of computer
experience and more than 10 years experience in training computer science
professionals. He is a well-known lecturer, who speaks about networking and
Linux at USENIX, Networld+Interop, COMDEX, LinuxBusiness Expo, ComNet and the
Open Source Software
Convention.
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Joshua Jensen (S5) was the first Red Hat
instructor
and examiner, and has been with Red Hat for 3 years. In that time he has written
and maintained large parts of the Red Hat curriculum: Networking Services and
Security, System Administration, and the Red Hat Certified Engineer course and
exam. Joshua has worked with Linux for six years, and has been teaching Cisco
Internetworking and Linux courses since 1998.
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Brad Johnson (S7, M6) is a vice president of SystemEx
perts Corporation, a consulting firm that specializes in system security and
management. He is a well-known authority in the field of secure distributed
systems and has recently served as a technical advisor to both Dateline NBC and
CNN on network security matters. He has participated in seminal industry
initiatives, including the Open Software Foundation, X/Open, and the IETF, and
has often published about open systems.Brad was one of the original members of
the OSF DCE Evaluation Team. He has a B.A. in computer science from Rutgers
University and an M.S. from Lesley College.
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Stephen Johnson (M13, M17) has been a
technical manager on and off for nearly two decades, in both large and small
companies. At AT&T, he is best known for writing Yacc, Lint, and the
Portable C Compiler. He served as the head of the UNIX Languages Department at
AT&T's Summit Labs. He has also been involved in a number of Silicon Valley
startup companies. He served for ten years on the USENIX Board of Directors,
four of them as president. He presented an invited talk on management at LISA
three years ago, he has taught USENIX tutorials on technical subjects, and he
has led management training seminars at LISA and the USENIX Annual Conference,
as well as at Transmeta.
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Greg Kulosa (S16) has been a Unix Systems
Administra
tor for 10+ years. He is currently a Senior consultant, solving a myriad of host
and networking problems for a variety of clients. He has rolled out DHCP to
networks from 2 to 1500 machines (Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris
2.xclients).
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William LeFebvre (M11, M15) has been using UNIX
and Internet technologies since 1983. He has written many articles on UNIX,
networking, and systems administration issues. Currently he writes the monthly
"Daemons & Dragons" column for UNIX Review. William is the editor of
the SAGE series "Short Topics in System Administration." He has taught tutorials
since 1989 for such organizations as USENIX, the Sun User Group (SUG), MIS
Training Institute, IT Forum, and Great Circle Associates, and he is a certified
Cisco Systems Instructor. William is the primary programmer for the popular UNIX
utility top and has contributed to several widely used UNIX packages, including
Wietse Venema's logdaemon package. He can be reached at wnl@groupsys.com or via
https://www.groupsys.com/.
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Rasmus Lerdorf (T4) has been designing
large-scale
UNIX-based solutions since 1989.In the Open Source community, he is known mostly
as the creator of the PHP scripting language. He has also contributed to a
number of other Apache-related projects and is a member of the Apache-core team.
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Evan Marcus (S8) is a senior systems
engineer and
high availability specialist with VERITAS Software Corporation. Evan has more
than 12 years of experience in UNIX systems administration. While employed at
Fusion Systems and OpenVision Software, Evan worked to bring the first high
availability software application for SunOS and Solaris to market. Evan is the
author of several articles and talks on the design of high availability systems.
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Ned McClain (S9) co-founder and CTO of Applied Trust Engineering,
was formerly
director of Infrastructure Engineering at XOR Inc. In this role, McClain
was responsible for the security and performance of more than 200 client
network and server environments. Ned holds a BS in Computer Science from
Cornell University and is contributing author to the UNIX System
Administration
Handbook.
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Mark Mellis (S1) is a consultant with
SystemExperts
Corporation based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over the past two years, Mark
has distinguished himself by assisting several of the premier Internet companies
in responding to major network attacks, and in designing and implementing robust
infrastructure to limit future exposure. Mark has established a reputation over
the past seventeen years of achieving the highest level of customer satisfaction
in the areas of Unix, Windows & NT, Macintosh, DNS, Internet and intra-net
connectivity, SMTP email, and WAN technologies. Mark attended the University of
Washington, where he studied Physics.
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Evi Nemeth (S9), a faculty member in
computer science
at the University of Colorado, has managed UNIX systems for the past 20 years,
both from the front lines and from the ivory tower. She is co-author of the
UNIX System Administration Handbook.
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Patrick Powell (S12) is CEO of AStArt
Technologies,
and, as a Professor in theDept. of Electrical Engineering at San Diego State
University, he managed many of the student computing facilities. He has taught
courses in computer networks, operating systems, and real time systems, and is
the developer of LPRng, a LPD-compatible print spooler that was created in order
to solve problems with existing LPD implementations.
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W. Curtis Preston (M9, T11, T15) has
been specializing
in backup and recovery for over seven years and has designed, implemented, and
audited enterprisewide backup and recovery systems for many Fortune 500 and
e-commerce companies. His O'Reilly & Associates book, UNIX Backup &
Recovery, has sold over 20,000 copies, and he writes a regular column for
UnixReview online and SysAdmin magazine. Curtis's Web address is
https://www.backupcentral.com, and he can be reached at curtis@backupcentral.com.
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Jim Reid (M8) started using a PDP11/45 running
V7 Unix 21 years ago and has been working with Unix systems ever since. He
worked for three years at Origin on behalf of Philips Electronics where he wrote
a DNS management system and designed, built and ran the DNS infrastructure for
the corporate network, one of the biggest in the world. He has over a decade's
experience in writing and teaching training courses ranging from kernel
internals to system administration and network security to DNS administration.
He's a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops in Europe and the US. His
book on DNS Administration with BIND9 will be published in late 2001 or early
2002.
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Avi Rubin (M7) is Principal Researcher at
AT&T Labs and
a member of theboard of directors of USENIX. He has been researching security
issues in computer security since 1991. Rubin is the author of two books on
computer security: White-Hat Security Arsenal (Addison Wesley, 2001) and Web
Security Sourcebook (with Dan Geer and Marcus Ranum, John Wiley &Sons,
1997). He is the author of dozens of refereed conference and journal papers, and
co-authored two chapters of Peer-to-Peer (O'Reilly,2001). Rubin is also an
Associate Editor of Electronic Commerce Research Journal. His latest research
project, Publius, a system forcircumventing censorship on the Internet, won the
Index on Censorship's Freedom of Expression Award.
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Jan Säll (M10, M14) is a leading UNIX consultant
operating both in Sweden and internationally. He is currently operating his own
company, Irial which provides advanced UNIX and network consultancy. Mr. Saell
is currently the chairman of EurOpen.SE, and he has been working in the UNIX
environment since 1983.
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John Sellens (M16) has been involved in
system and
network administration since 1986 and is the author of several related USENIX
papers and a number of ;login: articles, including the "On Reliability"series
and SAGE booklet. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the
University of Waterloo, and is a Chartered Accountant. He is currently the
General Manager for CertaintySolutions (formerly known as GNAC) in Toronto.
Prior to joining Certainty, John was the Director of Network Engineering at
UUNET Canada, and was a staff member in computing and information technology at
the University of Waterloo for 11 years.
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Willem A. (Vlakkies) Schreuder (T1) holds a
Ph.D. in
Computational Fluid Mechanics and is currently working on a second Ph.D. in
Parallel Systems. He has been solving practical problems in mathematical
modeling in academia and private industry for about 20 years, and has been a
UNIX sysadmin for more than 15 years. He uses his personal Beowulf to solve
problems in software development, computational fluid dynamics, data
analysis,scientific visualization and animation.
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Gregory Neil Shapiro (M12) began his
professional
career as a system administrator for Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) after
graduating from WPI in 1992. During his tenure as senior UNIX system
administrator, he became involved with beta testing the BIND name server, the
sendmail mail transfer agent, and other UNIX utilities such as emacs and screen.
He contributed the secure zones functionality included in BIND 4.9.X. When
presented with the opportunity to join Sendmail, Inc., he packed his bags and
headed west. As lead engineer at Sendmail, Inc., he has continued to support the
open source version while working on Sendmail Pro and Sendmail Switch, the
commercial versions.
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Marc Staveley (T8) recently left Sun
Microsystems
Enterprise Services to join a start-up, where he is applying his 16 years of
experience with UNIX development and administration. Previously Marc was an
independent consultant and has held positions at NCR, Princeton University, and
the University of Waterloo. He is a frequent speaker on the topics of
standards-based development, multi-threaded programming, systems administration,
and performance tuning.
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Dusty White (M13, M17) was an early
employee of Adobe, where she served in a variety of managerial positions. She
now works as a management consultant in Silicon Valley, where she acts as a
trainer, coach, and troubleshooter for technical companies. She has presented
tutorials at LISA and the USENIX Annual Technical Conferences.
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