Patrick Powell  (M10, M13)  is CEO of AStArt Technologies, and has managed many of the student computing facilities as a professor in the department of electrical engineering at San Diego State University. He has taught courses in computer networks, operating systems, and real time systems, and is the developer of LPRng, an lpd compatible print spooler that was created in order to solve problems with existing lpd implementations. He is active in the IETF Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) working group, which is developing new standards for network printing.

Joseph Radin  (T13)  is a senior systems consultant at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Joseph (Microsoft Certified) has over fifteen years progressive software engineering experience in delivering state of the art systems and solutions. Among his accomplishments are the publication of several books: XWindow Inside and Out, UNIX System Administration Guide, Open Computing Guide to UNIXWare. He also co-authored part of the LAN Times Guide to Interoperability.

Marcus J. Ranum  (S7)  is CEO and founder of Network Flight Recorder, Inc. He is the principal author of several major Internet firewall products, including the DEC SEAL, the TIS Gauntlet, and the TIS Internet Firewall Toolkit. Marcus has been managing UNIX systems and network security for over 13 years, including configuring and managing whitehouse.gov. Marcus is a frequent lecturer and conference speaker on computer security topics.

Jon Rochlis  (S9)  is a senior consultant for SystemExperts, where he provides high level advice to businesses on network security, distributed systems design and management, high-availability, and electronic commerce. Before joining SystemExperts, Jon was engineering manager with BBN Planet, a major national Internet service provider.

Char Sample  (T3)  has installed over 150 firewalls, was one of the original five engineers on the FWTK/Gauntlet project, and has spent many a stressful day on the Gauntlet support lines. She has developed and delivered training for TIS, V-ONE, SGI, Booze-Allen and Price Waterhouse LLP.

Hal Stern  (S2, M2)  is a Distinguished Systems Engineer with Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he focuses on high-end server technology, operations management, networking, performance tuning, and information systems architecture. Hal has been a UNIX administrator and user for more than 10 years. Before joining Sun, he developed molecular modeling software for a Boston area start-up company and was on the research staff at Princeton University. He is the author of Managing NFS & NIS and the author of several articles on application performance and network design.

Paul Vixie  (T2)  is the current maintainer of the BIND software system. BIND is the Berkeley Internet Name Domain, and it includes the name server named, used everywhere on the Internet. Paul is also a coauthor of Sendmail: Theory and Practice, and the moderator of the "comp.sources.unix" newsgroup.

 
Alphabetical Listing of Tutorial Instructors:
[Allman-Christiansen]   [Cox-Galvin]   [Hein-Pomeranz]   [Powell-Vixie]