Astrid Bragg Office Manger Before coming to the Internet Archive in May 2003, Astrid worked for Hostelling International (a non-profit organization with youth hostels worldwide) at two of their San Francisco hostels. Astrid graduated from San Francisco State University cum laude with a B.A. in English. In her spare time, Astrid studies philosophy with a committed reading group and plans to take up the cello again any day now.
	Beatrice Murch Executive Assistant / Development Coordinator Beatrice comes to the Internet Archive with five years of non-profit administration experience, working with both non-profits and foundations. She claims to understand technology and has had a web presence since 1996 in some form or another, which you can check out courtesy of the Wayback Machine. She enjoys working in the non-profit sector and making the world a better place. She believes that universal access to all knowledge is a worthy goal and enjoys creating that reality. In the late 1990s, Willamette University gave her a B.A. in art history and French literature with a minor in mathematics. Apart from work, Beatrice enjoys road biking, political activism and geeking out with her friends. www.murch-sitaker.org
	Bill Moyer Software Engineer Bill Moyer has been developing distributed technologies for five years, and commercial and open source software for ten years. Prior to working in the Data Repository and the Collections departments of the Internet Archive, Bill worked at The Sausalito Group and at Flying Crocodile, developing distributed demographic database and data analysis software for corporate intelligence applications. Prior to Flying Crocodile, Bill developed and maintained the GNU C Compiler and related applications in Cygnus Solutions' GNUPro toolchain (acquired by RedHat in Jan 2000) from 1996 to 1999. Prior to Cygnus, Bill developed embedded communications software for First Pacific Networks.
	Brad Tofel Data Archivist Brad Tofel has been working with Internet technologies for eight years. Prior to the Internet Archive, Brad worked at Alexa Internet, participating in the architectural design for several initiatives, including the Wayback Machine. While at Alexa Internet, Brad managed the storage of the Web collections, performed data mining and indexing of the web collections, and was the Lead Developer for the Toolbar group. Prior to Alexa Internet, Brad built a variety of web applications at Ephibian, a Tucson-based organization that outsourced software engineering and Network Operations Center services for military, research and Internet organizations. Brad received a B.S. in computer science at the University of Arizona in 1996.
	Brewster Kahle Digital Librarian, Director and Co-Founder Since the mid-1980s, Brewster has focused on developing transformational technologies for information discovery and digital libraries. In 1989 Brewster invented the Internet’s first publishing system, WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) system, and in 1989, founded WAIS Inc., a pioneering electronic publishing company that was sold to America Online in 1995. In 1996, Brewster founded the Internet Archive, the largest publicly accessible, privately funded digital archive in the world. At the same time, he co-founded Alexa Internet in April 1996, which was sold to Amazon.com in 1999. Alexa's services are bundled into more than 80% of Web browsers. Brewster earned a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1982. As a student, he studied artificial intelligence with Marvin Minsky and W. Daniel Hillis. In 1983, Brewster helped start Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker, serving there as lead engineer for six years. He is profiled in Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite (HardWired, 1996). He was selected as a member of the Upside 100 in 1997, Micro Times 100 in 1996 and 1997, and Computer Week 100 in 1995. APPOINTMENTS: Internet Archive, Digital Librarian, Director, Co-Founder 1996-present Electronic Frontier Foundation, Board Member Alexa Internet, President, CEO, Co-Founder (sold to Amazon.com) 1996-2002 The Library of Congress, National Digital Strategy Advisory Board April 2001 America Online, Internet Strategist 1995-1996 Wide Area Information Servers, Inc (WAIS), Founder, President (sold to AOL) 1992-1995 Thinking Machines with Apple, Dow Jones, KPMG, WAIS Inventor and Project Leader 1989-1992 Thinking Machines, Scientist 1983-1992. Helped start company, chips, boards, architected CPU of CM2
	Bruce Baumgart Research Engineer Baumgart is a hardware tinker, software hacker, and geezer geek who now serves the Internet Archive as a petabox cluster technical support engineer, computer scientist, and open source evangelist. He spent the 1980s as an entrepreneur -- founded, ran and sold Softix, Inc. which built computer ticket systems around the world, including BASS San Francisco and Ticketek Australia. His formal education included a Harvard 1968 B.A. in applied mathematics and a Stanford 1974 Ph.D. in computer science for work done at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab. His informal education includes work at institutions such as Xerox PARC, Foonly Inc., Yaskawa Robotics, and IBM Research at Almaden. The top two computer science questions he is pursuing for this year, 2005, concern characterizing disk data decay and tabulating lexical string frequencies on large corpora. Outside the I.A. Baumgart supports John Nagel's Team Overbot which is competing in the DARPA grand challenge robot race across the Mojave desert. Inside the I.A. Baumgart supports extending the computer science 'research access' part of the Archive's mission to provide 'universal access to all human knowledge'.
	Dan Avery Senior Crawl Engineer Prior to joining the Internet Archive, Dan worked as a fast food cashier, theme park ride attendant, university recycling coordinator, gopher developer, VP of a software company, graduate student in sociology, software engineer, and research scientist, but not all at the same time. He has a B.A. in interdisciplinary studies from the University of Virginia.
	Eric Volpe System Administrator Eric has been running unix systems since 1986, and has a particular interest in doing things on a large scale -- big archives, big mail servers, etc. Prior to joining the Internet Archive, he was chief Systems Architect at Critical Path, where as one of the first engineers, he designed and patented a scalable email infrastructure which served tens of millions of end-users. When not at the Internet Archive, Eric is a photographer specializing in semi-abstract large format work, and exhibits in the Bay Area and elsewhere. Eric has a B.A. in German literature from the University of Rochester, and also enjoys tinkering with old motorcycles.
	Gordon Mohr Chief Technologist, Web Group Gordon Mohr has been creating innovative applications for the Internet since 1995. Before joining the Internet Archive, Gordon founded and led Bitzi, a collaborative universal media catalog built by volunteers over the web. Previously, Gordon led the design and implementation of "Ding," an extensible all-Java peer-to-peer instant-messaging platform, for Activerse, an Austin-based startup acquired by CMGi in 1999. In 1995, Gordon helped create VisualWave, an early object-oriented web application server and development environment, for Sunnyvale-based ParcPlace Systems.
	Igor Ranitovic Crawl Engineer Igor has been working with the Internet Archive since June of 2002. He came to the Internet Archive as a Data Archivist intern and in January of 2003 he became a full time employee in the Web group. Igor has a B.S. in computer science/mathematics from Birmingham-Southern College, and a M.S. in computer science from the University of San Francisco. Igor is originally form Novi Sad, SCG. He enjoys music, art and geeeeek soccer.
	Jacques Cressaty Bookkeeper A long time transplant from France, Jacques' specialty is to organize businesses and keep their books straight. He joined the Internet Archive in 2001. Prior to that Jacques managed his wife's design firm. He has been a professional photographer since 1984 and is a published and exhibited artist. Most mornings, you will find him in his rowing shell in the middle of SF Bay.
	Jim Shankland System Administrator Jim Shankland started working with computers in Ithaca, New York when a job driving a school bus fell through. He has been writing code for UNIX, FreeBSD, and Linux for over 20 years, and loves open-source software, but is frustrated that for all the technical progress, everything involving computers remains ten times as hard and a tenth as reliable as it ought to be. Jim has a B.A. in English from Wesleyan University, and a M.E. in computer science from Cornell University.
	Joerg Bashir System Administrator Joerg Bashir has been supporting Internet operations for eight years. Prior to the Internet Archive, Joerg was a system administrator at Scale8 corporation. He oversaw four data centers located in the US, Europe and Asia. The sites consisted of large clusters of Linux servers providing Internet based large-scale storage and data delivery. Before Scale8, Joerg worked as an SA at Healtheon corporation, supporting Sun hardware and proprietary clustered healthcare applications software. By 1997, Joerg was working at GMAC, supporting their home lending division. Prior to GMAC, he worked at Bell Atlantic Business Systems Services. At BABSS, he was part of a new remote management initiative to outsource IT monitoring and administration for various large Fortune 500 corporations.
	John Berry VP of Operations John Berry is a veteran technology executive, having served as a CTO, VP of Engineering, and technology consultant for companies such as Planet U, Zatso, IBM, Rational, and AT&T. He has over 20 years experience building highly reliable distributed systems. He earned his B.S. from the University of Maryland.
	Michael Stack Software Engineer Michael works mostly on Heritrix, the Archive's open-source crawler. He has always had a fascination for postulates such as "information wants to be free" and "property is theft", so it's not surprising that he breaks out in goose bumps whenever he hears the Internet Archive motto "Universal Access to All Human Knowledge (for Free, for Ever)." In the past, Michael has been a sysadmin (once), stage manager, a not-very-good dishwasher, director of engineering (twice), laborer (demolition mostly), and software engineer (three or four times).
	Michele Kimpton Director of Web Archive Michele Kimpton has been a Director at the Internet Archive for three years. In her role, she works closely with national libraries, archives and universities to provide technical expertise and services in web archiving. She has developed partnerships with several of these institutions to collaborate on web archiving activities, including co-founding the International Internet Preservation Consortium. Prior to the Internet Archive, Michele worked in the high-tech-industry, mainly for-profit sector, for the last 20 years. Before coming to the Internet Archive she was one of the co-founders of an online digital imaging company, which was subsequently bought by one of the larger photo imaging companies. For the last ten years of her career she has worked primarily in technical management and business development. She has worked and lived in both Europe and Asia during her career. Michele has a Masters in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University, and a Masters of Business Administration from University of Santa Clara.
	Molly Davis Administrative Director As an experienced animator, Molly Davis ran her own animation business as well as a design collective in San Francisco for four years. She comes to the Internet Archive with a background in creating things for the Internet, as well as a strong record of running organizations. Molly received her B.F.A. from Florida State University and in her spare time djs on KALX Berkeley kalx.berkeley.edu and draws monsters www.rawr.net.
	Parker Thompson Data Archivist Parker has been working with the Internet Archive since May of 2003. He came to the Internet Archive as an intern in the Web group working on the Heritrix web crawler, and in May of 2004 became a full time employee in the collections group, where he builds systems for storing and distributing digital collections (audio, video, software, texts, etc), and works with owners of large collections to organize and include their data in the Internet Archive. Before coming to the Internet Archive, Parker worked for a small consulting company as a project manager/developer, and as a programmer for a large university developing CRM and knowledge management software. Parker holds a Master's degreee in information management and systems from the University of California, Berkeley as well as a B.A. (political science) and B.S. (informatics) from the University of Washington.
	Simon Carless Data Archivist Simon is an editor and writer when not helping out at the Archive, and currently acts as managing editor for videogame industry website Gamasutra, part of the CMP Game Group. As well as authoring the book Gaming Hacks for technical publishers O'Reilly, he has previously worked as one of the editors for popular tech website Slashdot as well as a videogame designer for companies including Eidos Interactive and Atari.
	Stewart Cheifet Director of Collections Stewart Cheifet has been an attorney, a media executive, and a technology journalist. He has worked in various capacities for ABC, CBS, NPR, and PBS in the United States, Europe, Asia and the South Pacific. He has managed broadcast radio and television stations and was CEO of several media production and distribution companies. He was former Executive Producer and host of the PBS series Computer Chronicles and Net Café. He has served as President of PCTV, a company focused on broadcast and new media production in the field of personal technology. He holds a B.S. in mathematics and psychology from the University of Southern California, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and he was a post-graduate fellow in technology journalism at the University of Chicago.
	Tracey Jaquith Web Engineer Tracey was a founding coder and the system architect for the Internet Archive in 1996, writing multi-threaded servers and crawlers, as well as parallel processing code. She continued on with the company and Alexa Internet. In 2000, she left for four years to follow her Cornell mentor, Dan Huttenlocher, and was a technical lead and founding engineer at a financial services software startup. She returned to the Internet Archive in October 2004 and is most excited about being at a non-profit and doing digital video. Tracey holds a Master's and Bachelor's degree in computer science from Cornell University where she focused on machine vision and robotics. Outside of work, she is a road biker, political webmaster and volunteer, DVD and VCD producer, and time-lapse digital photography enthusiast. homeserver.archive.org/~tracey (Note: link is blank in Safari browsers because site is XML)

Board of Directors

	Brewster Kahle Board Chair
	Kathy Burch Board Secretary Kathleen Burch has decades of experience in non-profit management, strategic thinking, and community activation, all to serve her passion and commitment to universal literacy and book publishing. After studies at Mills College in Oakland in English Literature and and graduate work in the Book Arts department, she founded a type & design studio and an independent publishing house, Burning Books, both of which thrived in San Francisco throughout the eighties. An understanding of the community's needs, along with her value for arts organizations, book arts and social entrepreneuring, drove Burch to go on to co-found the San Francisco Center for the Book in 1996. She now serves as its board vice-chair and on the executive committee in perpetuity. Besides sitting on several other community-based boards, she also chaired the board of Pro Arte Libri, an international arts organization devoted to the art of fine bookmaking. She has practiced symbolic communication through typographic languages since 1974, publishing the works of big thinkers such as John Cage, Robert Ashley, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, and her own work on game theory and the culture of card-playing, with recent studies in the Visual Criticism department at California College of Art in San Francisco. Her work with Burning Books was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at Mills College in 1996. She was a Xerox PARC artist-in-residence in 2000.
	Rick Prelinger Board President Rick Prelinger prelinger.com, an archivist, writer and filmmaker, founded Prelinger Archives, whose collection of 51,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002 after 20 years' operation. Rick has partnered with the Internet Archive to make 2,000 films from Prelinger Archives available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. With the Voyager Company, a pioneer new media publisher, he produced fourteen laserdiscs and CD-ROMs with material from his archives, including "Ephemeral Films," the "Our Secret Century" series and "Call It Home: The House That Private Enterprise Built," a laserdisc on the hostory of suburbia and suburban planning. Rick has taught in the MFA Design program at New York's School of Visual Arts and lectured widely on American cultural and social history and on issues of cultural and intellectual property access. He sits on the National Film Preservation Board as representative of the Association of Moving Image Archivists and is Board President of the Internet Archive and also the San Francisco Cinematheque. His feature-length film "Panorama Ephemera," depicting the conflicted landscapes of 20th-century America, opened in summer 2004. He is co-founder of the Prelinger Library, an appropriation-friendly reference library located in San Francisco.