Hal Abelson
Hal Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and an IEEE Fellow. He has helped drive innovative educational technology initiatives such MIT OpenCourseWare, cofounded Creative Commons and Public Knowledge, and was founding director of the Free Software Foundation. Co-author of
Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion.
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BlackBerrys Be Damned: Can You Do Business Without Them?
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Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital
Explosion:
- Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3
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The Blown to Bits Interview: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness
After the Digital Explosion. Jono Bacon is an Open Source consultant, speaker, and writer who has been a part of the Linux community since 1998. He is now the Ubuntu Community Manager at Canonical, and one of the lead authors of
The Official Ubuntu Book, released in August 2006 by Prentice Hall. Learn why Ubuntu has rapidly become one of the most popular Linux distributions today, from one of the people making it happen.
Scott Bain is a thirty-year veteran in computer technology, with a background in development, engineering, and design. He has also designed, delivered, and managed training programs for certification and end-user skills, both in traditional classrooms and via distance learning. For the past eight years, Scott has been working for Net Objectives in Puget Sound, teaching courses and consulting on design patterns, refactoring, unit testing, and test-driven development. Along with Net Objectives CEO Alan Shalloway, he has contributed significantly to the integration of design patterns in Agile environments. Scott is a frequent speaker at developer conferences such as JavaOne and SDWest.
Author of
Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development.
Joe Casad is an engineer who has written widely on PC networking and system administration. He has written twelve books on computers and networking, including MCSE Windows NT Server and Workstation Study Guide, MCSE Networking Essentials Training Guide, Windows NT Server 4.0 Professional Reference and Windows 98 Professional Reference. He is the former managing editor of the Network Administrator magazine and currently the Senior Editor of UNIX Review and Technical Editor of SysAdmin magazine. Joe also has a gift of being able to present difficult topics in an understandable manner. Author of
Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours,
4th Edition.
Can you learn TCP/IP in 24 hours? Hear from Joe Casad on
Network World.
James Champy is one of the leading management and business thinkers of our time. His first best seller,
Reengineering the Corporation, remains the bible for executing process change. His second book,
Reengineering Management, another best seller, was recognized by
Business Week as one of the most important books of its time. But, Champy is also an experienced manager and advisor. He is the Chairman of Consulting for Perot Systems. He speaks and writes with the authority of real business experience and brings pragmatism to the world of business. Champy observes that there is not much new in management, but there is a lot new in business – and a lot to learn from what’s new.
Champy’s book,
Outsmart! How To Do What Your Competitors Can't, is a New York Times Best Seller. This concise, fast-paced book shows how you can achieve breakthrough growth by
consistently outsmarting your competition. Champy reveals the surprising, counterintuitive lessons learned by companies that have achieved super-high growth for at least three straight years. Drawing on the strategies of some of today-s best -high velocity- companies, he identifies eight powerful ways to compete in even the roughest marketplace. You'll discover how to find distinctive market positions and sustainable advantages in products, services, delivery methods, and unexpected customers with unexpected needs.
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In an age that's notorious for customer disloyalty, it is still possible to make your customers "stick" to you like glue and, in an era of relentless commoditization and price pressure, it's more crucial than ever that you do. In Inspire, legendary business guru James Champy reveals exactly how to do it.Â
CIO Insight named
Inspire!, published by FT Press
, one of its
15 essential spring books for IT leaders.
Inspire! reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Wesley J. Chun currently runs a consulting business specializing in
Python software engineering and technical corporate training. He has been programming, teaching, and writing since 1980, including more than a decade’s experience with Python. While at Yahoo!, he helped create Yahoo!Mail and Yahoo!People Search using Python. He holds degrees in computer science, mathematics, and music from the University of California.
Author of
Core Python Programming, Second Edition and
Python Web Development with Django®.
Eric Clayberg is Senior Vice President for Product Development for Instantiations, Inc. Eric is a seasoned software technologist, product developer, entrepreneur, and manager with more than 15 years of commercial software development experience, including seven years of experience with Java and four years with Eclipse. He is the primary author and architect of more than a dozen commercial Java and Smalltalk add-on products, including the popular WindowBuilder Pro, CodePro Studio, and the award-winning VA Assist Enterprise product lines. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from MIT, an MBA from Harvard, and has co-founded two successful software companies.
Co-author of
Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins, Second Edition.
Mike Cohn is the founder
Mountain Goat Software, a process and project management consultancy that specializes in helping companies adopt and improve their use of agile processes and techniques. He is the author of
Agile Estimating and Planning and
User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development.
Mike is a founding member of the Agile Alliance and serves on its board of directors. Author of
User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development and
Agile Estimating and Planning. You can reach Mike at
mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com.
Michael W. Covel is the founder and President of Trend Following™.
A researcher of the most successful Trend Following investment managers, he has been in the alternative investments industry consulting on Trend Following to individual traders, hedge funds and banks for ten years. His best selling book,
Trend Following: How Great Traders Make Millions in Up or Down Markets is a complete and concise guide to trend following.
It includes interviews with great trend followers who have won millions, if not billions, in the market. Covel also writes for numerous industry publications including TradingMarkets.com,
Your Trading Edge Magazine, Futures Japan Magazine and Stocks, and
Futures and Options magazine.
Podcast: Michael Covel
Author of Trend Following, on Warren Buffett vs Bill Dunn
Paul J. Deitel, Chief Technical Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management where he studied Information Technology. Through Deitel & Associates, Inc. he has delivered Internet and World Wide Web courses and programming language classes for industry clients including Sun Microsystems, EMC2, IBM, BEA Systems, Visa International, Progress Software, Boeing, Fidelity, Hitachi, Cap Gemini, Compaq, Art Technology, White Sands Missile Range, NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, the National Severe Storm Laboratory, Rogue Wave Software, Lucent Technologies, Computervision, Cambridge Technology Partners, Adra Systems, Entergy, CableData Systems, Banyan, Stratus, Concord Communications and many other organizations.
He has lectured on Java and C++ for the Boston Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, and has taught satellite-based courses through a cooperative venture of Deitel & Associates, Inc., Prentice Hall and the Technology Education Network. He and his father, Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, are the world's best-selling Computer Science textbook authors.
Java™ for Programmers: Deitel® Developer Series
By: Paul J. Deitel; Harvey M. Deitel
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Harvey M. Deitel, CEO of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has 40 years experience in the computing field including extensive industry and academic experience. He is one of the world's leading computer science instructors and seminar presenters. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He has 20 years of college teaching experience including earning tenure and serving as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel & Associates, Inc. with his son, Paul J. Deitel. He is author or co-author of dozens of books and multimedia packages and is currently writing many more.
With translations published in Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Basic Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, French, Polish and Portuguese, the Deitel's texts have earned international recognition. Dr. Deitel has delivered professional seminars internationally to major corporations, government organizations and various branches of the military.
C# 2008 for Programmers: Deitel® Developer Series, Third Edition
By: Paul J. Deitel; Harvey M. Deitel
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Paul Duvall is an independent consultant who helps clients create one-click deployments. He has worked in virtually every role on software projects: developer, project manager, architect and tester. He's been a featured speaker at many leading software conferences. He is the principal author of
Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk (Addison-Wesley, 2007; Jolt 2008 Award Winner). He contributed to the
UML 2 Toolkit (Wiley, 2003), authors a series for IBM developerWorks called
Automation for the people and authored a chapter in the
No Fluff Just Stuff Anthology: The 2007 Edition (Pragmatic Programmers, 2007). He is passionate about automating software development and release processes.
Co-author of
Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk.
Thomas Erl is the world’s top-selling SOA author, Series Editor of the Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl, and Editor of SOA Magazine. He is the founder of SOA Systems Inc., a company specializing in vendor-neutral SOA consulting and training services and is the founder of the internationally recognized SOASchool.com SOA Certified Professional program. His books have been formally endorsed by senior members of major software organizations, such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, BEA, Sun, Intel, SAP, CISCO, and HP.
SOA: Principles of Service Design
By: Thomas Erl
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Dr. Deborah J. Fisher, PhD is a Visiting Research Professor at the University of New Mexico. Dedicated to group productivity and human motivation, her career has included tenure and an endowed chair position at her current institution, and Directorship of the Engineering Management Program at the University of Houston. She has automated organizational learning for the construction industry, created employee development models for Sandia National Laboratories, and educated generations of professionals along the way. Co-author of
Four Secrets to Liking Your Work: You May Not Need to Quit to Get the Job You Want.
Listen to
Four Secrets to Liking Your Work by Ed Muzio, Deborah J. Fisher, & Erv Thomas.
Andrew Glover is the President of Stelligent Incorporated and an author for multiple online publications including IBM's developerWorks and Oreilly's ONJava and ONLamp portals.
Co-author of
Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk.
Preston Gralla is the author of
Windows Vista in a Nutshell, which was released in December 2006 by O'Reilly Media. Preston is a prolific writer on Windows topics. He's authored over 30 books and countless articles for publications ranging from PC Magazine to the Los Angeles Times. He's a frequent guest on TV and radio shows covering technology, and has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR. Preston is also the editor of the Windows DevCenter web site. Preston discusses the major improvements, as well as some of the potential pitfalls, of Microsoft's Windows Vista.
Curt Hibbs has spent most of his professional career consulting and now works as a Senior Software Engineer for The Boeing Company in St. Louis. Curt has founded several highly successful Ruby open source projects, including Instant Rails. Bruce and Curt explain why Ruby on Rails has taken the web development field by storm.
Bill Hunt is the CEO and Founder of
Global Strategies International (GSI) and one of the pioneers of search engine marketing, getting his start in 1994. Bill is an internationally recognized search marketing expert, conference speaker, and contributor to numerous marketing journals and books. In his first book,
Search Engine Marketing, Inc., Bill shares the tips and techniques he's learned working with numerous large search engine marketing (SEM) projects for clients such as AT&T, IBM, Intel, The Hartford, and Zurich Financial.
GSI specializes in helping Fortune 500 companies develop, implement, and manage their global enterprise search marketing programs. With offices in the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, GSI has the experience to help companies execute their search engine marketing programs "from the inside out."
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Scott Kelby has been the top-selling computer technology book author worldwide since 2004. He is President of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), the trade organization for Adobe Photoshop users. NAPP has more than 60,000 members in 106 countries worldwide. Additionally, Scott is Editor-in-Chief of both
Photoshop User and
Layers magazines. Scott serves as training director for the Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour and is the technical chair of the largest Photoshop gathering, Photoshop World Conference & Expo.
Scott is one of the leading seminar instructors in the country today, training thousands of Photoshop users across the country each year. He is also featured in a series of Photoshop training videos. In addition to
The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers,
Down & Dirty Tricks, and the
Killer Tips book series, Scott is the also author of
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers,
The iPod Book,
The Digital Photography Book, and
The iPhone Book.
Scott Kelby's
The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers was honored with Professional Photographer magazine's highly coveted
2008 Hot One Award. The award winners are featured in the February issue of the magazine.
Press Release: Scott Kelby Is Top-Selling U.S. Computer Book Author for 2007, According to Nielsen BookScan Data
Interview with Scott Kelby (audio).
Ken Ledeen, Chairman/CEO of Nevo Technologies, has served on the boards of numerous technology companies. Co-author of
Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion.
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BlackBerrys Be Damned: Can You Do Business Without Them?
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 Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion:
- Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3
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The Blown to Bits Interview: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness
After the Digital Explosion. Harry Lewis, former Dean of Harvard College, is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard. He is author of Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future? He teaches Quantitative Reasoning 48, an innovative Harvard course on information for non-technical, non-mathematically oriented students. Co-author of
Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion.
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BlackBerrys Be Damned: Can You Do Business Without Them?
Listen to the Podcast OnBizTech (Audio):
Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital
Explosion:
- Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3
Read the Article:
The Blown to Bits Interview: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness
After the Digital Explosion. Barry Libert is the CEO of Shared Insights and the co-author of
We are Smarter Than Me: How to Unleash the Power of Crowds in Your Business. Libert has worked at Arthur Anderson, John Hancock, and McKinsey & Company, and holds an MBA from Colombia University. A prolific author and speaker on the value of information and relationships in business, Libert partnered with fellow McKinsey alum and President and CEO of The Conference Board, Jon Spector, to write this ground-breaking new kind of book about business.
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Watch the Interview: ABC News Now - “Money Matters” Show Ben Long is a freelance writer who has extensive experience with digital media. Ben has written numerous articles and reviews for publications like
MacWEEK, Macworld, and
CreativePro.com, where he is a senior editor. Ben has also authored many books on digital photography and digital video, and is widely considered an expert in these fields.
Alan Lurie, author of Five Minutes on Mondays, has a unique background. He is currently a Managing Director at Grubb & Ellis, a national real estate service firm, following a twenty-five career as a licensed architect. He is also a non-denominational ordained Rabbi, teaching, leading prayer services, and writing on issues of faith and religion. This combination of meeting the demands of the business world while attending to the needs of the spirit gives Alan both insight into, and access to, a diverse community. His wife, Shirona, is a Jewish Cantor, singer, and accomplished songwriter. They live in Rye, New York.
Five Minutes on Mondays: Finding Unexpected Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work
By: Alan Lurie
Publisher: FT Press
New York Post feature article on Alan Lurie
Benjamin Mako Hill is one of the lead authors of
The Official Ubuntu Book, released in August 2006 by Prentice Hall. Mako is a longtime free software developer and advocate. He was part of the founding Ubuntu team and one of the first employees of Canonical, is a member of the Ubuntu Community Council governance board, and is now a graduate student researcher at MIT working on the One Laptop per Child Project. Learn why Ubuntu has rapidly become one of the most popular Linux distributions today, from one of the people who is making it happen.
Micah Martin works with Object Mentor as a developer, consultant, and mentor on topics ranging from object-oriented principles and patterns to agile software development practices. Micah is the co-creator and lead developer of the open source FitNesse project. He speaks regularly at technical conferences. Micah teamed up with his father Robert for their latest Agile book,
Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#, which brings these important development principles to the world of .NET programmers. We spoke recently with Micah and Robert about their experiences writing this book and about Agile programming in general.
Robert Martin is one of the primary founders of the methodology of Agile programming, and the author of the seminal book on the topic,
Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices. Robert instigated the famous meetings at Snowbird in 2001 where Agile programming was defined and the Agile Manifesto was born. Robert teamed up with his son Micah for their latest Agile book,
Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#, which bring these important development principles to the world of .NET programmers. We spoke recently to Robert and Micah about their experiences writing this book and Agile programming in general.
Raffael Marty: As chief security strategist and senior product manager, Raffy is customer advocate and guardian - expert on all things security and log analysis at Splunk. With customers, he uses his skills in data visualization, log management, intrusion detection, and compliance to solve problems and create solutions. Inside Splunk, he is the conduit for customer issues, new ideas and market requirements to the development team. Fully immersed in industry initiatives, standards efforts and activities, Raffy lives and breathes security and visualization. His passion for visualization is evident in the many presentations he gives at conferences around the world. Author of
Applied Security Visualization.
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Stephen M. Matyas III is vice president of AutomateIT, a service branch of 5AM Solutions. He has a varied background in applied software engineering, with much of his professional, hands-on experience being in the areas of enterprise Java and custom software development and services.
Co-author of
Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk.
Colin Moock is an independent Flash platform expert with a passion for networked creativity and expression. He has been researching, designing, and developing for the Web since 1995. Moock's career started at SoftQuad, Inc. (makers of HoTMetaL PRO), followed by a five-year term at Canadian interactive agency, ICE. Since then, Moock has focused on writing books, speaking at conferences, and researching emerging web technology. Moock's works include ActionScript: The Definitive Guide, ActionScript: The Definitive Guide for Flash MX, Essential ActionScript 2.0, and Essential ActionScript 3.0. He is also the co-creator of
Unity, a multiuser client/server development kit. Author of:
Mike Moran has worked on the Web since its earliest days, in both marketing and technical roles, including eight years at
ibm.com, IBM’s customer-facing Web site. In 2008, Mike retired from IBM to pursue speaking, writing, and consulting, including serving as Chief Strategist for the digital communications agency Converseon.
Mike is the author of
Do It Wrong Quickly and
Search Engine Marketing, Inc., Second Edition, and he writes regular columns on search marketing for Revenue magazine, WebProNews, and Search Engine Guide. He’s a member of the Search Engine Marketing Council of the Direct Marketing Association and a charter member of the DMA’s Interactive Marketing Advisory Board. Mike is a frequent keynote speaker on Internet marketing at events around the world, serves as a Visiting Lecturer to the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, and holds an Advanced Certificate in Market Management Practice from the Royal UK Charter Institute of Marketing.
Mike also has a broad technical background, with over 20 years experience in search technology working at IBM Research, Lotus, and other IBM software units. He led the product team that developed the first commercial linguistic search engine in 1989 and has been granted four patents in search and retrieval technology. He led the integration of ibm.com’s site search technologies as well as projects in content management, personalization, and web metrics. Mike led the adoption of search marketing at ibm.com back in 2001 and pioneered product search facilities that dramatically raised conversion rates. He was named an IBM Distinguished Engineer in 2005. Mike can be reached through his Website (
www.mikemoran.com), which is also the home of his Biznology newsletter and blog.
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Edward G. Muzio is President and CEO of Group Harmonics and a leader in the application of analytical models to enhance group effectiveness. He has started large organizations and small companies, led global initiatives in technology development and employee recruitment, and published papers ranging from manufacturing strategy to individual skills and productivity. As primary developer of his company’s educational suite, he serves as advisor and educator to workers at all levels in companies worldwide. Co-author of
Four Secrets to Liking Your Work: You May Not Need to Quit to Get the Job You Want.
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Four Secrets to Liking Your Work by Ed Muzio, Deborah J. Fisher, & Erv Thomas.
Adam Nathan is a senior software development engineer in Microsoft's Developer Division, and the author of many books and articles on .NET topics. His latest book is
Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed, one of the first titles to cover Microsoft's exciting new Silverlight technology, which has just been released in the Rough Cuts program.
Barrie North has over 15 years of experience with the Internet, as a user, designer, and teacher. He has spent over eight years in the education field, becoming steadily more involved in web technology and teaching web design classes to students and technology integration to teachers. Most recently he worked as an IT consultant for two new schools pioneering in the use of technology. As well as web design, he has provided web marketing/SEO, usability, and standards compliance expertise to his clients.
He is currently a partner of Joomlashack.com, providing templates and custom services. He also maintains a blog about all things Joomla at compassdesigns.net.
When not working he can frequently be found on the Joomla community boards, and he has written many free tutorials for using Joomla. His combination of Joomla expertise, educational skills, and engaging writing has produced a book accessible to everyone.
Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website
By: Barrie M. North
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Russ Olsen is the author of
Design Patterns in Ruby, which applies the concepts from the seminal Gang of Four book on design patterns to the popular Ruby programming language.
Design Patterns in Ruby also introduces some new patterns that are specific to Ruby. Russ currently leads a study group on Ruby and writes a popular technology blog,
Technology As If People Mattered.
Andy Oram is an editor at O'Reilly Media specializing in free software and open source technologies. His work for O'Reilly includes the first books ever published commercially in the United States on Linux, and the 2001 title Peer-to-Peer. Andy is also a member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and writes often for the O'Reilly Network and other publications on policy issues related to the Internet and trends affecting technical innovation and its effects on society.
Greg Wilson holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, and has worked on high-performance scientific computing, data visualization, and computer security. He is the author of Data Crunching (Pragmatic Press, 2005) and Practical Parallel Programming (MIT Press, 1995), and is a contributing editor at Doctor Dobb's Journal, and an assistant professor in Computer Science at the University of Toronto.
Lynn O'Shaughnessy has been a professional journalist for nearly three decades. She is a former LA Times reporter and syndicated columnist, and a financial journalist. Her previous books include
Unofficial Guide to Investing; Investing Bible; Retirement Bible; and
The College Solution: A Guide for Everyone Looking for the Right School at the Right Price.
She contributes regularly to such publications as BusinessWeek, Money Magazine, Chronicle of Philanthropy, AARP: The Magazine, Bloomberg Wealth Manager Magazine, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger's Retirement Report, and Consumer Reports Money Advisor.
If you missed our complimentary webcast, featuring Lynn O'Shaughnessy, you can
View an Archived Recording Here.
Patrick Park, author of
Voice over IP Security, has been working on product design, network architecture design, testing, and consulting for more than 10 years. Currently, Patrick works for Cisco as a VoIP test engineer focusing on the security and interoperability testing of rich media collaboration gateways. Before Patrick joined Cisco, he worked for Covad Communications (a VoIP service provider) as a VoIP security engineer focusing on the design and deployment of secure network architecture and lawful interception (under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act [CALEA]) with various tools and solutions.
Patrick graduated from Pusan National University in South Korea, where he majored in computer engineering. While attending graduate school, he wrote the book Web Server Programming with PHP. Patrick lives with his wife and children in Los Gatos, California.
Read Patrick’s response to this question:
What is the threat landscape like for VoIP?
Dev Patnaik is a principal of Jump Associates, a design strategy and product planning firm based in San Mateo, CA that helps visionary companies create lasting product directions to improve people’s lives. Patnaik is a designer and strategic planner with experience in engineering, art design, and business theory. He has worked with Fortune 500 firms and fledgling startups in the U.S., Asia, Europe, and Australia.
An assistant faculty member at Stanford University, Patnaik teaches design research methods to undergraduate and graduate students. He also speaks frequently at leading industry forums on product development, marketing, and innovation.
Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper when
they Create Widespread Empathy
By: Dev Patnaik
Publisher: FT Press
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Liz Pulliam Weston, author of
Your Credit Score: How to Fix, Improve, and Protect the 3-Digit Number That Shapes Your Financial Future, Second Edition, is one of the most-read columnists for MSN Money and author of the question-and-answer column
Money Talk, which appears in newspapers nationwide, including
The Los Angeles Times, The Newark Star-Ledger, The Cleveland Plain Dealer and
The Detroit News.
She appears weekly on CNBC's
Power Lunch and regularly on other television programs, including
NBC's Early Today, to discuss credit and other personal finance issues. She was part of the
Los Angeles Times reporting team that earned a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of alcoholism amongst Alaska natives. Pulliam Weston is a graduate of the certified financial planner training program at University of California, Irvine.
MSN (Associated Press) interview
with
Liz Pulliam Weston featuring
Your Credit Score, Your Money & What’s at Stake
David Rice is an accomplished information security professional, educator, and visionary. For more than a decade he has advised, counseled, and defended global IT networks for government and private industry. David is Director of The Monterey Group. His latest book,
Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software, is being widely hailed by the IT security community as an important and long overdue examination of the serious and growing dangers of insecure software.
Dan Rubel is Chief Technology Officer for Instantiations, Inc. He is an entrepreneur and an expert in the design and application of OO technologies with more than 15 years of commercial software development experience, including eight years of experience with Java and four years with Eclipse. He is the primary architect and product manager for several successful commercial products, including JFactor, jKit/GO, and jKit/Grid, and has played key design and leadership roles in other commercial products such as Window-Builder Pro, VA Assist, and CodePro Studio. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from Bucknell and has co-founded a successful company.
Instantiations is an Advanced IBM Business Partner and developer of many commercial add-ons for Eclipse and IBM’s VisualAge and WebSphere product lines. Instantiations is a member of the Eclipse Foundation and a contributor to the Eclipse open source effort with responsibility for the Eclipse Collaboration Tools project known as Koi and joint responsibility for the Eclipse Visual Editor project.
Co-author of
Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins, Second Edition.
Technology Group. She is an expert in online communications and presentation technologies, working with leading international technology firms for more than 10 years. Patrice is also a CeM-certified online marketing professional who specializes in teaching others how to tap the power of the latest social media technologies. You can reach Patrice at her website: www.patricerutledge.com.
Read the Article:
Should your boss be your Facebook friend?
The Truth About Profiting from Social Networking
By: Patrice-Anne Rutledge
Publisher: Que
Erica Sadun
Erica Sadun holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She has written, co-written, and contributed to almost two dozen books about technology, particularly in the areas of programming, digital video, and digital photography. An unrepentant geek, Sadun has never met a gadget she didn't need. Her checkered past includes run-ins with NeXT, Newton, and a vast myriad of both successful and unsuccessful technologies. When not writing, she and her geek husband parent three adorable geeks-in-training, who regard their parents with restrained bemusement.
The iPhone™ Developer's Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK
By: Erica Sadun
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Jim Stickley is CTO and Vice President of TraceSecurity Inc. He was one of the original founders of TraceSecurity and is a renowned security expert. He has been involved in thousands of security services for financial institutions, Fortune 100 corporations, healthcare facilities, legal firms, insurance companies and Government agencies. He has been a security consultant for
20/20, Network Associates, numerous magazines and newspapers and has been featured in
Time Magazine, Business Week, Fortune Magazine, New York Times and many other industry specific publications such as
PC Magazine and
Security Focus.
He also has been showcased on
NBC's Nightly News, CNN's NewsNight, several CNBC programs including
The Big Idea and numerous times on
NBC's Today Show. He has physically breeched the security of more than 1,000 facilities nationwide and had access to billions of stolen identities. When not on assignment, he continues to serve as a speaker and has delivered hundreds of speeches at security-related tradeshows, conventions, seminars and forums throughout the U.S. and other countries, covering topics ranging from identity theft to national cyber terrorism.
Read the Article
How to protect yourself from identity theft
The Truth About Identity Theft
By: Jim Stickley
Publisher: Que
Bruce Tate co-authored
Ruby on Rails: Up and Running, with Curt Hibbs, which was released in August of 2006 by O'Reilly Media. Bruce founded the RapidRed independent consultancy (previously J2Life LLC) where his primary focus is on training, implementation, and consulting for rapid software development using Ruby on Rails.
Erv Thomas, PE is a Program Manager at Intel Corporation. For the past several years he has been responsible for recruiting, mentoring, and developing the top engineering talent in the world. He has dedicated over 30,000 hours of his time to helping professionals and young adults live up to their full potential at work and in life. Additionally, he has been a design engineer, an educator, and the founding director of a non-profit organization where he has spent the majority of his “non-working” time mentoring teens at risk. Co-author of
Four Secrets to Liking Your Work: You May Not Need to Quit to Get the Job You Want.
Listen to
Four Secrets to Liking Your Work by Ed Muzio, Deborah J. Fisher, & Erv Thomas.
Marc Wandschneider has worked extensively with open source platforms, and has written an Outlook Express-style email client for Linux using Qt.
He travels the globe, consulting as a lead manager for software projects and teams. A graduate of the McGill University School of Computer Science, he spent five years working for Microsoft, where he developed and managed developers on the Visual Basic, Visual J++, and .NET Windows Forms teams.
Author of
Core Web Applications Development with PHP and MySQL.
Geertjan Wielenga has worked for NetBeans in Prague over the past three years and is one of the authors of Prentice Hall's recently released
Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans Platform, which released first as a Rough Cut in Safari. Geertjan has extensive experience helping developers learn how to use NetBeans, both as a trainer and a documentation writer for NetBeans. We discussed the value of providing readers with the ability to monitor a work in progress, along with the state of NetBeans in this interview.
Meri Williams is the author of
The Principles of Project Management. She spends her days managing projects at a large multimations, and her evenings writing and developing web sites. She writes at
Geek Manager, as well as on her personal blog
Meri Williams, and recently started
Make Me A Speaker!Author of
Financial Shock: A 360° Look at the Subprime Mortgage
Implosion, and
How to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis.
Dr. Mark Zandi is Chief Economist and co-founder of
Moody's Economy.com, an independent subsidiary of Moody's that provides economic research and consulting services to businesses, governments and other institutions. His recent research has included: studying determinants of mortgage foreclosure and personal bankruptcy; analyzing economic impacts of tax and government spending policies; and assessing policy responses to bubbles in asset markets. Zandi holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he did research with Gerard Adams and Nobel Laureate Lawrence Klein; and a B.S. from Wharton. He appears regularly on ABC News, Wall Street Week, CNN, and CNBC.
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Listen to Mark Zandi discuss the risky loans
behind the meltdown.
Podcast: Mark Zandi, author of Financial Shock on the
End of the Economic Downturn.
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