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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

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

==Gordon DunsireJohn Price Wilkin==

Gordon Dunsire is a freelance consultantJohn P. His previous position was Head of Wilkin is the Centre Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Research at Information Technology (LIT) and is the University Executive Director of Strathclyde, Glasgow, ScotlandHathiTrust. He has a background in cataloguing The Library Information Technology (LIT) Division supports the Library's online catalog and systems librarianshiprelated technologies, provides the infrastructure to both digitize and is a member of access digital library collections, supports the FRBR Review Group Library's web presence, and ISBD/XML Study Group which are developing Semantic Web representations of IFLA standardsprovides frameworks and systems to coordinate Library technology activities (e. He is also a member of the MODS Editorial Committeeg. He is a member of the W3C , authentication and authorization). Reporting units include Core Services, Digital Library Linked Data Incubator Group Production Service, Library Systems, and co-Chair of the DCMI RDA Task GroupWeb Services.

Wilkin previously served as the Head of the Digital Library Production Service at the University of Michigan, a position he held from its inception in 1996. DLPS was originally conceived as a federated organization, drawing on resources from the University of Michigan's major information and technology organizations, including the University of Michigan Library. Although this particular aspect of DLPS has changed, now with all of the department's activities situated within the University Library, and nearly all of its funding on the Library's base budget, DLPS continues to have strong campus and national relations. Among the units in the DLPS is the University of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative, an organization responsible for SGML document creation and online systems that Wilkin founded in 1994. Wilkin earned graduate degrees in English from the University of Virginia (Bio cribbed '80) and Library Science from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville ('86). In 1988 he assumed responsibility for the University of Michigan's English and American language and literature collection development, as well as library research support for English faculty and graduate students. Soon after, he implemented a campus-wide service for the analysis of electronic text and encoding text in SGML. In 1992, he began work at the University of Virginia as the Systems Librarian for Information Services, where he shaped the Library's plan for establishing a group of electronic centers, led and provided technical support for those centers, and consulted for the University's Insitute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) in textual issues. ==Kam Woods==Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools 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. http://connect.aladigitalcorpora.org/nodeMore info: http:/142320)/www.digpres.com/ ==Steve Yegge==Staff Software Engineer, Google "Steve started high school at age 11 and graduated at 14. He then made the only logical choice, which was to play guitar in garage bands until he was 18, when he joined the U.S. Navy as a nuclear reactor operator. Steve went on to earn his B.S. in computer science from the University of Washington, then spent five years at Geoworks developing operating systems software in 8086 assembly language. He worked at various startups, then spent just under seven years at Amazon.com as a senior software development manager. In his spare time Steve built a massively multiplayer RPG that garnered him a grand prize at Comdex in 2002. Steve has been a Googler since 2005 and plans to stay there forever." -- http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/e_spkr/3489 Yegge recently delivered a keynote at OSCON Data 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmQW_Nkfk8 [[Category: Code4Lib2012]][[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]