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==Jason Scott==
Jason Scott is an American archivist and computer historian. He is maintains [http://textfiles.com textfiles.com], a web site which archives files from historic bulletin board systems. He is also the creator of a 2005 documentary film about BBSes, [http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/ BBS: The Documentary], and a 2010 documentary film about interactive fiction, [http://www.getlamp.com/ GET LAMP]. He is also one of the responsible folks behind [http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page Archive Team] (who are here to rescue your shit), and writes often in his weblog [http://ascii.textfiles.com/ ASCII by Jason Scott]. He [http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3024 recently started working for the Internet Archive], too.
==William Turkel==
From his page at http://history.uwo.ca/faculty/turkel/ - Project Director, Digital Infrastructure for the SSHRC Strategic Knowledge Cluster
NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment
"In my research and teaching I draw on, integrate and try to extend a number of different disciplines: environmental and public history, the histories of science and technology, 'big history', STS, computation, and studies of place and social memory."
Bill is an engaging and inspiring speaker who groks what we are trying to do with code4lib. I've seen him speak at THATCamp, Access 2009, and at code4lib north; his ability to bridge his interdisciplinary interests with what matters to us library hackers is unparalleled. He'd be a perfect fit and when I asked him this past spring if he'd consider speaking at code4lib he was willing and interested. --dchud
