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CodeCon 2009 Presenters In alphabetical order: Ben Adida is a member of the Research Faculty at Harvard Medical School and a Research Fellow with Harvard University's Center for Research on Computation and Society. His work applies cryptography and web technology to policy problems, including health data privacy and voting security. His work on voting has been featured in the Economist, MIT's Tech Review, and Salon.com. Ben enjoys coding real-world solutions to complex problems, in particular solutions that push the limit of established technology, e.g. teaching web browsers new tricks. Erick Armbrust Distributed Transaction Layer for Google App Engine DIY
Synthetic Biology
Kay Aull graduated from MIT in 2008, with the first undergraduate class in Biological Engineering. Since then, she has worked as a synthetic biologist at the startup Codon Devices, and gotten involved with the DIYbio community. Kay has maintained a home lab since childhood, and wants to show the world that life is hackable. Bram is one of the founders of CodeCon and the creator of BitTorrent, which he presented at the first CodeCon. Ryan Barrett Distributed Transaction Layer for Google App Engine Mackenzie Cowell DIY
Synthetic Biology
I am passionate about amateur biotechnology and more generally what is called Citizen Science. After graduating with a degree in Biology from Davidson College, I worked at MIT coordinating the International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (igem.org). Since then I've founded diybio.org - an institution for the amateur biotechnologist. I am interested in Synthetic Biology and making biological systems easier to understand and engineer. Lets make the engineering cycle faster, cheaper, easier, simpler, and more reliable. And lets do it with cheap off-the-shelf tools. And in a sexy, fun way. Why isn't scientific research more fun than the average video game? I believe it can and should be. Some of my favorite groups are: http://igem.org, http://biobricks.org, and http://openwetware.org. Peter Eckersley is a Staff Technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His research interests include digital copyright and alternatives to digital copyright, privacy, and network neutrality. Simon Fredrick-Vicente Goldsmith Distributed Transaction Layer
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Tomas Isdal is a graduate student in computer science at the University of Washington. His interests include peer-to-peer and distributed systems, internet measurements, and network security and privacy. "Do you dream of engineering biofuels, creating new species as pets, and exploring your genome? I do." Tito Jankowski is a DIYbiologist from Sacramento. He studied synthetic biology at Brown University, where he worked to design lead-detecting bacteria as a summer iGEM project. Nick Mathewson Nick Mathewson is a systems architect, security researcher, and software engineer. His research at MIT concentrated in verifying privacy properties in Java bytecodes; he received an M.Eng in 2000. Since 2002, he has worked on traffic analysis resistant networks, as lead developer on Mixminion, the successor to current anonymous remailer networks; and as a core developer on the Tor anonymity network project. His research focuses on attacking and strengthening anonymity networks; his papers have appeared in many prominent privacy- and security-related conferences and workshops. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mike Leahy founded EGR Software in 2003 to pursue the state of the art of audio and graphic development with an emphasis on 3D audio spatialization. His first public presentation of EGR Software technology was at the 2004 Codecon event. This presentation provides a look at the last 5 years of development and the brand new facility created for forward looking 3D audio research and development. Mike Leahy has been involved as the first US hired software developer and an active software architect for the successful startup DeviceAnywhere/Mobile Complete and is once again focusing intently on EGR Software development activities. Leo is a web researcher with a background in programming language theory. He previously was the lead developer for a functional reactive web programming framework ( http://www.flapjax-lang.org), worked in verifying and analyzing secure systems ( http://www.cs.brown.edu/research/plt/software/margrave/), and wreaked havoc at a commercial radio station. Nowadays, he's working on rethinking the architecture of browsers and their languages: how to make them faster (this talk), more usably secure (new membranes from http://code.google.com/p/google-caja, to be released soon), and a richer environment for extensions (web application model extractor to be released soon). Software developer by day, amateur biologist by night. Arvid Norberg Arvid is the author of libtorrent, and currently works at BitTorrent Inc. Mike Perry is a cypherpunk hacker, reverse engineer, and privacy fanatic. He currently works for the Tor Project on improving network usability, performance and reliability, but also has interests in security, binary instrumentation, and attempting the impossible. Michael Piatek is a graduate student in computer science at the University of Washington. After spending his undergraduate years working on differential geometry, his research interests now include incentive design in distributed systems, network measurement, and large-scale systems building. Niels Provos Niels Provos joined Google in 2003 and is currently working as Senior Staff Software Engineer in the Infrastructure group. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2003 where he studied experimental and theoretical aspects of computer and network security at the Center of Information Technology Integration. He is serving on the USENIX Board of Directors. He is a member of the Honeynet project and an active contributor to open source projects. Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem Distributed Transaction Layer
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