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* [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.-ksclarke
* [http://diveintoaccessibility.org/ Mark Pilgrim ] - He knows (real world, not necessarily library) standards about as well as anyone and advocates strongly for what's simple and practical (check out his work on Atom and HTML5), but he's also an advocate for doing what's right even when it's not necessarily easy. He's funny, writes well, and seems to be articulate in person (based on his short-lived video log)-ksclarke