Chief Technology Officer, Sendmail, Inc

Eric Allman was the original author of sendmail and continues to lead sendmail.org, the worldwide team of volunteers that maintains and supports the Open Sourceh product. He was the Chief Programmer on the INGRES database management project and an early contributor to Berkeley UNIX, authoring syslog, tset, the trof-me macros, and trek, in addition to Sendmail. He received a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley in 1980. He was a principal designer of the first commercial client/server implementation and of database user and application interfaces at Britton Lee, Inc. (later Sharebase). Mr. Allman developed a first-generation window system through beta-level production at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. He contributed to the Ring Array Processor Project for neural-network-based speech recognition at the International Computer Science Institute. Mr. Allman was also Chief Technical Officer at InReference, Inc., a web-based search engine start-up. He co-authored the "C Advisor" column for UNIX Review magazine for several years and is a former member of the Board of Directors of USENIX Association.