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Alphabetical Listing of Tutorial Instructors:
Allman-Buus | Christiansen-Farrow | Nemeth-Rieger | Sample-Vixie

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Peter Galvin is the chief technologist for Corporate Technologies, Inc. and is on the Board of Directors for the Sun User Group. He has used, programmed, and managed computer systems for 16 years, including nine years with Sun equipment. As a consultant and trainer, Mr. Galvin has taught tutorials on security and systems administration and given talks at many conferences.

Geer

Daniel E. Geer, Jr . is vice president of CertCo, LLC, a market leader in digital certification for electronic commerce. He has a long history in network security and distributed computing management as an entrepreneur, consultant, teacher, and architect. He is co-author of the Web Security Sourcebook. He earned a BS from MIT and a PhD from Harvard.

Hein

Trent Hein is chief network architect at XOR Network Engineering. He worked on the 4.4 BSD port to the MIPS architecture at Berkeley, and is co-author of the UNIX Systems Administration Handbook.

Hickstein

Jim Hickstein started in UNIX systems administration at a company with 5000 hosts and 200 TCP/IP networks. He was hired as a software engineer but started doing systems administration in self-defense. He now leads the systems administration team at CUC Internet Engineering.

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Brad Johnson is an authority in the field of distributed systems. He has participated in seminal industry initiatives such as the Open Software Foundation, X/Open, and the IETF, and has published often about open systems. Brad works at SystemExperts where he has led numerous security probes for major companies.

Lawrence_David

David Lawrence is one of the current maintainers of INN and has been a highly visible member of the Usenet community for over a decade. His contributions include involvement in many news software projects and service as the moderator of news.announce newgroups for the past six years. Co-author of the recently released book, Managing Usenet, David is a member of the technical staff at Vixie Laboratories and the Internet Software Consortium.

LeFebvre

Bill LeFebure has been banging on UNIX systems since 1981 and has been poking around with Internet technology since 1983. He currently runs Group sys Consulting. He has been a regular tutorial instructor at USENIX conferences since 1992 and is also a columnist for UNIX Review.

Lirov

Yuval Lirov is a senior vice president of UNIX Support at Lehman Brothers. He manages administration of systems, databases, and parallel batch processing for 3,200 UNIX workstations in sales,trading, research, and development. He is an author of Mission Critical Systems Management and over 100 technical publications and patents in distributed systems management, troubleshooting, and resource allocation.

Alphabetical Listing of Tutorial Instructors:
Allman-Buus | Christiansen-Farrow | Nemeth-Rieger | Sample-Vixie

 
 


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