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* [http://blog.chrisfreeland.com/ Chris Freeland] - Technical Director of the [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ Biodiversity Heritage Library]. From his website: "Chris Freeland is the Director of the Center for Biodiversity Informatics at the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Technical Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Mr. Freeland has an M.S. in Biological Sciences from Eastern Illinois University and has worked as a technologist in scientific organizations for more than 10 years. He has been a project manager for several large informatics projects, including the development of the Tropicos botanical information system, online at www.tropicos.org, and the BHL, online at www.biodiversitylibrary.org." - Martin
* [http://www.hilarymason.com/ Hilary Mason] - A software engineer with [http://bit.ly http://bit.ly]. From her web site: "Hilary is a computer science professor with a background in machine learning, data mining, and web applications. She is currently on sabbatical to explore real-world implementations of these technologies. She is widely published and regularly speaks at academic and industry conferences, and recently realized her dream of delivering a talk on algorithms while drinking a dry ice martini. She is an enthusiastic developer and often releases code on her personal site, www.hilarymason.com." - Roy She has an awesome [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/reinventing-e-mail-one-message-at-a-time/ email classifier (NYTimes article)]. -Jodi
* [http://xkcd.com/ Randall Munroe ] - programmer/math geek/xkcd creator/all-around genius. His Authors@Google talk was pretty entertaining, and he seems like the kind of guy who would put some effort into surprising and engaging the crowd he's talking to.
