Tutorial Instructors

Eric Allman (M5) 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 (later Sharebase), 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.	Matt Bishop (M7) began working on problems of computer security, including the security of the UNIX operating system, at Purdue, where he earned his doctorate in 1984. He worked in industry and at NASA before becoming a professor, teaching courses in computer security, cryptography, operating systems, and software engineering at both Dartmouth College and 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.
David N. Blank-Edelman (T5) is the Director of Technology at the Northeastern University College of Computer Science and the author of Perl for System Administration (O'Reilly). He has spent the last 15 years as a system/network administrator in large multi-platform environments and has served as Senior Technical Editor for the Perl Journal. He has also written many magazine articles on world music.	Gerald Carter (W5), a member of the Samba Team since 1998, is employed by Hewlett Packard as a Software Engineer, working on Samba-based print appliances. He is writing a guide to LDAP for system administrators to be published by O'Reilly. Jerry holds an M.S. in computer science from Auburn University, where he also served as a network and systems administrator. Gerald has published articles with Web-based magazines such as Linuxworld and has authored courses for companies such as Linuxcare. He recently completed the second edition of Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours (Sams Publishing).
Philip Cox (T6, W2) is a consultant with SystemExperts Corporation. Phil frequently writes and lectures on issues of UNIX and Windows NT integration and on information security. He is the lead author of Windows 2000 Security Handbook, 2nd Edition (Osborne McGraw-Hill), a contributing author of Windows NT/2000 Network Security (Macmillan Technical Publishing), and a featured columnist in ;login: The Magazine of USENIX & SAGE. He has served on numerous USENIX program committees. Phil holds a B.S. in computer science from the College of Charleston, South Carolina.	Lee Damon (T2) 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 developed several large-scale mixed environments. He is a member of the SAGE Ethics Working Group and was one of the commentators on the SAGE Ethics document. He has championed awareness of ethics in the system administration community, including writing ethics concerns into policy documents.
Peter Baer Galvin (M1) 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 a columnist for SunWorld, and is co-author of the Operating Systems Concepts and the Applied Operating Systems Concepts textbooks. Peter has taught tutorials on security and systems administration and has given talks at many conferences and institutions.	Trent Hein (T4, W4) 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 both the UNIX Systems Administration Handbook and the Linux Administration Handbook, and holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of Colorado. Email him at trent@atrust.com.
Craig Hunt (T7) is the author of the best-sellers TCP/IP Network Administration (O'Reilly) and Linux Network Servers 24seven (Sybex). Craig is also the series editor for the Craig Hunt Linux Library from Sybex, a library of advanced system administration books. 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, LinuxWorld, Networld+Interop, COMDEX, ComNet, and the Open Source Software Convention.	Brad C. Johnson (W2) is vice president of SystemExperts Corporation. He has participated in the Open Software Foundation, X/Open, and the IETF, and has often published about open systems. Brad has served as a security advisor to organizations such as Dateline NBC and CNN. He is a frequent tutorial instructor and conference speaker on network security, penetration analysis, middleware, and distributed systems. He holds a B.A. in computer science from Rutgers University and an M.S. in applied management from Lesley University.
Rasmus Lerdorf (W8) 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. Rasmus has contributed to a number of Apache-related projects and is a member of the Apache core team. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Christine. He can be reached at rasmus@php.net.	Evan Marcus (W1), who has 14 years of experience in UNIX systems administration, is now a Senior Systems Engineer and High Availability Specialist with VERITAS Software Corporation. At Fusion Systems and OpenVision Software, Evan worked to bring the first high-availability software application for SunOS and Solaris to market. He is the author of several articles and talks on the design of high availability systems and is the co-author, with Hal Stern, of Blueprints for High Availability: Designing Resilient Distributed Systems (John Wiley & Sons, 2000).
James Mauro (T3) is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Performance and Availability Engineering group at Sun Microsystems. Jim's current projects are focused on quantifying and improving enterprise platform availability, including minimizing recovery times for data services and Solaris. He co-developed a framework for system availability measurement and benchmarking and is working on implementing this framework within Sun. Jim co-authored Solaris Internals: Architecture Tips and Techniques (Sun Microsystems Press/Prentice Hall, 2000).	Ned McClain (T4, W4), 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 speaks regularly at international system administration and networking conferences and is contributing author to both the UNIX System Administration Handbook and the Linux Administration Handbook. Ned holds a B.S. in computer science from Cornell University.
Richard McDougall (T3), an Established Engineer in the Performance Application Engineering Group at Sun Microsystems, focuses on large systems performance and architecture. He has over twelve years of experience in UNIX performance tuning, application/kernel development, and capacity planning. Richard is the author of many papers and tools for measurement, monitoring, tracing, and sizing UNIX systems, including the memory-sizing methodology for Sun, the MemTool set for Solaris, the recent Priority Paging memory algorithms in Solaris, and many unbundled tools for Solaris, and is co-author of Solaris Internals: Architecture Tips and Techniques (Sun Microsystems Press/Prentice Hall, 2000).	Gary McGraw (T1) Cigital Inc.'s CTO, researches soft ware security and sets technical vision in the area of software risk management. Dr. McGraw is co-author of four popular books: Java Security (Wiley, 1996), Securing Java (Wiley, 1999), Software Fault Injection (Wiley 1998), and Building Secure Software (Addison-Wesley, 2001). He consults with major e-commerce vendors, including Visa, MasterCard, and the Federal Reserve, functions as principal investigator on several government grants, and serves on commercial and academic advisory boards. Dr. McGraw holds a dual Ph.D. in cognitive science and computer science from Indiana University and a B.A. in philosophy from UVa.
Marshall Kirk McKusick (M8, T8) writes books and articles, consults, and teaches classes on UNIX- and BSD-related subjects. While at the University of California at Berkeley, he implemented the 4.2BSD fast filesystem and oversaw the development and release of 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD. His particular areas of interest are the virtual-memory system and the filesystem. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. At the University of California at Berkeley, he received Master's degrees in computer science and business administration, and a doctoral degree in computer science. He is past president and a current member of the USENIX Board of Directors and is a member of AAAS, ACM, and IEEE.	Mark Mellis (T6) is a consultant with SystemExperts Corporation. Over the past two years, Mark has assisted several premier Internet companies in responding to major network attacks and has designed and implemented robust infrastructure to limit future exposure. Mark was the Principal of Mellis and Associates, where he provided network consulting services to various high-tech firms. Mark attended the University of Washington, where he studied physics.
Evi Nemeth (T4, W4), a faculty member in computer science at the University of Colorado, has managed UNIX systems for the past 25 years, both from the front lines and from the ivory tower. She is co-author of the UNIX System Administration Handbook. Evi is about to get out of the UNIX and networking worlds and explore the real world on a sailboat.	George Neville-Neil (M6) has worked on networking and embedded operating system software for the last five years, most recently as a Senior Member of Technical Staff and TCP/IP Architect at Wind River Systems. He presents seminars on advanced networking subjects regularly at the PerNet colloquia series at San Francisco State University. Currently he has a consulting company working on advanced frameworks for network protocol implementation.
Marcus Ranum (W3) is founder and CTO of NFR Security, Inc. He has been working in the computer/network security field for over 14 years and is credited with designing and implementing the first commercial Internet firewall product. Marcus also designed and implemented other significant security technologies, including the TIS firewall toolkit and the TIS Gauntlet firewall. As a researcher for ARPA, Marcus set up and managed the Whitehouse.gov email server. Widely known as a teacher and industry visionary, he has been the recipient of both the TISC Clue award and the ISSA lifetime achievement award. Marcus lives in Woodbine, Maryland, with his wife, Katrina, and a small herd of cats.	Avi Rubin (M2) is Principal Researcher at AT&T Labs and a member of the Board of Directors of USENIX. He has been researching 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 for circumventing censorship on the Internet, won the Index on Censorship's Freedom of Expression Award.
John Sellens (M4) 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 Certainty Solutions (formerly known as GNAC) in Toronto. Prior to joining Certainty, John was the Director of Network Engineering at UUNET Canada, and he was a staff member in computing and information technology at the University of Waterloo for 11 years.	Marc Staveley (W6) recently took a position with Soma Networks, where he is applying his 18 years of experience with UNIX development and administration in leading their IT group. Previously Marc has been an independent consultant and has held positions at Sun Microsystems, NCR, Princeton University, and the University of Waterloo. He is a frequent speaker on the topics of standards-based development, multi-threaded programming, system administration, and performance tuning.
John Stewart (W7) is the Chief Security Officer at Digital Island, Inc., a cable and wireless company. Prior to his work at Digital Island, he helped architect Cisco's Web site and worked on the security teams at Cisco and at NASA Ames Research Center. John, who is the co-author of the W3C's "WWW Security FAQ," has been teaching at the SANS and Network Security conferences since 1996 and serves on a number of technical advisory boards. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Syracuse University.	Theodore Ts'o (M3) has been a Linux kernel developer since almost the very beginnings of Linux--he implemented POSIX job control in the 0.10 Linux kernel. He is the maintainer and author for the Linux COM serial port driver and the Comtrol Rocketport driver. He architected and implemented Linux's tty layer. Outside of the kernel, he is the maintainer of the e2fsck filesystem consistency checker. Ted is a Senior Technical Staff Member of IBM's Linux Technology Center.