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Matt Neuburg

Matt Neuburg is steeped in Mac history, and remains an important part of the Mac landscape. After leaving a 14-year life of academic teaching, he started his professional Mac career here: in 1995 as Managing Editor for MacTech Magazine. In 1996, he left MacTech to pursue his interest in Frontier -- an early scripting language for the Mac for those of you who don't remember. This culminated in his first computer book, "Frontier: The Definitive Guide," and was the first Mac-based book published by O'Reilly & Associates.

Even while teaching, though, his interest in technology and the Macintosh rose to the surface. He became a regular Contributing Editor for the online journal TidBITS; he continues to hold that position to this day, and over the years has written over 100 software reviews and technical explanatory articles.

Matt continues to write for TidBITS; he has also written several online articles for oreillynet.com. His Take Control ebooks "Take Control of Customizing Tiger" and "Take Control of What's New in Word 2004" remain popular. His "Definitive Guide" books for O'Reilly have been acclaimed by readers as valuable instructional and reference tools. He programs, trains, writes documentation, and in general continues to enjoy learning, using, teaching, and writing about the Mac. - erm

Paul Kafasis

What a pleasure it is to see Paul Kafasis (and Alex Laugtin!) from Rogue Amoeba get community recognition. Paul cheerfully identifies himself as CEO/Lackey of his company, which was officially formed in 2002. Basically, it's his job to make sure the programmers can keep on programming -- meaning that he handles product management, business development, marketing, website content, some support, and more.

Paul has been involved with several startup development efforts, including one, Subband Software, which had most of the elements that went on to form Rogue Amoeba, his most successful effort to date.

Rogue Amoeba has certainly come up with more than their share of utilities that make you question how you got along without them, and we're convinced that they'll continue to do so in surprising ways. - erm