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C.Eng., graduated from Trinity College Cambridge in 1980. After two years in industry, he spent seven years as a lecturer at University College London, and nine years as a professor at Glasgow University before moving to Microsoft Research in 1998. His main research interest is in functional programming languages, their implementation, and their application. He has led a succession of research projects focused on the design and implementation of production-quality functional-language systems for both uniprocessors and parallel machines. He was a key contributor to the design of the now-standard functional language Haskell, and is the lead designer of the widely used Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). He has written two textbooks about the implementation of functional languages.

Jim Kent is a research scientist at the Genome Bioinformatics Group at the University of California Santa Cruz. Jim has been programming professionally since 1983. During the first half of his career, he focused on paint and animation software, authoring among other works the award-winning programs Aegis Animator, Cyber Paint, and Autodesk Animator. In 1996, tired of keeping up with the Windows API treadmill, he decided to pursue his interest in biology, earning a Ph.D. in 2002. As a graduate student, he wrote GigAssembler—a program that produced the first assembly of the human genome—one day ahead of Celera's first genome assembly, helping assure that the bulk of the genome would remain free of patents and other legal entanglements. Jim is an author of 40 scientific papers. His work today is primarily in creating programs, databases, and web sites that help scientists analyze and understand the genome.

Brian Kernighan received his B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1964, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton in 1969. He was in the Computing Science Research center at Bell Labs until 2000, and is now in the Computer Science Department at Princeton. He is the author of eight books and a number of technical papers, and holds four patents. His research areas include programming languages, tools, and interfaces that make computers easier to use, often for nonspecialist users. He is also interested in technology education for nontechnical audiences.

Adam Kolawa is the co-founder and CEO of Parasoft, a leading provider of Automated Error Prevention (AEP) software solutions. Kolawa's years of experience with various software development processes has resulted in his unique insight into the high-tech industry and the uncanny ability to successfully identify technology trends. As a result, he has orchestrated the development of several successful commercial software products to meet growing industry needs to improve software quality—often before the trends have been widely accepted. Kolawa, co-author of Bulletproofing Web Applications (Hungry Minds), has contributed to and written more than 100 commentary pieces and technical articles for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, CIO, Computerworld, Dr. Dobb's Journal, and IEEE Computer; he has also authored numerous scientific papers on physics and parallel processing. His recent media engagements include CNN, CNBC, BBC, and NPR. Kolawa holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology, and has been granted 10 patents for his recent inventions. In 2001, Kolawa was awarded the Los Angeles Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the software category.

Greg Kroah-Hartman is the current Linux kernel maintainer for more driver subsystems than he wants to admit, along with the driver core, sysfs, kobject, kref, and debugfs code. He also helped start the linux-hotplug and udev projects, and is one half of the kernel stable maintainer team. He works for SuSE Labs/Novell and does various kernel-related things for them. He is the author of the book Linux Kernel in a Nutshell (O'Reilly) and the co-author of Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition (O'Reilly).

Andrew Kuchling has 11 years of experience as a software developer and is a longtime member of the