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A software engineer with 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, http://www.hilarymason.com. Hilary is also a co-founder of HACKNY-http://hackny.org"  ==John Kunze== John Kunze is a preservation technologist for the California Digital Library. With a background in computer science and mathematics, he wrote software that comes pre-installed on Linux and Apple operating systems. He has also contributed heavily to the standardization of URLs, Dublin Core metadata, and web archiving. John's recent work on "microservices" has brought a pragmatic and often light-mcdonaldhearted/humorous approach to the problems of digital preservation. There is also the off-chance that he might sport his grill while doing a presentation.

George is the lead for the Internet Archive Open Library and has worked on the web since 1996, in a variety of roles that normally revolve around front-end design and online community. She is entirely comfortable with "amateur" metadata creation and hopes to explore this within the context of Open Library. Prior to her work at IA George was a lead on the Flickr Commons Initiative. Currently George also serves as a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. You can see more on her at http://www.abitofgeorge.com/ and http://www.archive.org/about/bios.php. She has a great article about software community on A List Apart - http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fromlittlethings. --mcdonald

very exciting work on Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensicstools for digital archivists. He works witharchivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzingand preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existinghigh-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasetsand teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. 

His More info: http://www.digpres.com/