Lynne Jolitz

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Lynne Greer Jolitz (B.S Physics, University of California at Berkeley) has been a founder of startups in Silicon Valley ranging from workstations to Internet multimedia. Lynne Jolitz is probably most famous for her work in pioneering open source operating systems with 386BSD with her husband William Jolitz. Lynne is also a noted author and authority on operating systems and networking issues. Her published works have been translated into German and Japanese. Lynne is an internet news media commentator discussing events in the computer industry and writes frequently for Byte. Lynne has received patents in internet technologies and semiconductor memory innovations and writes technical papers and articles. Lynne is presently Chief Technology Officer of ExecProducer, a company specializing in massive video production and deployment.

Lynne has appeared on the Oracle E-Business Network and was presented with their Geek of the Week award for her years of work in high-speed networking and operating systems design. Lynne has appeared on Dvorak’s RealComputing discussing Internet broadband’s impact on our lives. Lynne received an alumni award from the Physics Department at Berkeley for her work in alumni outreach with the department. Lynne is very active in the women’s entrepreneur and technology networking groups and mentoring girls in science and technology.