McNealy to Roberts

Scott McNealy
		Cofounder and CEO of Sun Microsystems.

Bob Metcalfe
		Xerox PARC researcher, coinventor of Ethernet

Ted Nelson
		Computer visionary, author of Computer Lib/Dream Machines, inventor of Xanadu

Ray Noorda
		Venture capitalist and company doctor, owner of a majority interest in Novell Data Systems in 1983; relaunched Novell was its president , CEO, and chairman from 1983-1994, chairman of the Canopy Group.

Severo Ornstein
		Software engineer, member of BBN ARPAnet team, researcher at Xerox PARC.

Jonathan Postel
		Editor of ARPAnet and Internet "Requests for Comments."

Howard Rheingold
		Whole Earth Catalog staff writer, author of "Tools for Thought," "Virtual Communities," etc.

Larry Roberts
		Director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office from 1969 to 1973, and CEO of Telenet, the first packet switching utility.

Schmidt to Walden

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