Mark Kriegsman

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Mark Kriegsman
Born 1966
Residence U.S.
Citizenship American
Alma mater Hampshire College
Employer Veracode, Inc

Mark Edwin Kriegsman (born 1966)[1] is an American entrepreneur, computer programmer, inventor, writer, and Director of Engineering at Veracode.[2] He lives in Arlington, MA along with his daughter, Eleanor, born in 2002.

Open Source, Web, and Software Security Work

At the Burning Man 2008 festival
Kriegsman has been writing[3][4][5] and porting [6] open-source software for 30 years. He founded and ran pioneering software companies, including Document.com,[1] later acquired by Merrill, and Clearway Technologies,[7] acquired by Mirror Image Internet. After college, Kriegsman worked for Cognitive Systems, Inc. (started by notable AI researcher Roger Schank), developing large scale rule-based, statistical, and text-processing AI systems. He later integrated those three technologies in a paper he wrote for IEEE.[8] Designing document management systems at Interleaf led him to found his first startup, Document.com. After founding Clearway, Kriegsman was a senior developer at @stake, which was later acquired by Symantec.[7]

Clearway created the FireSite[9] web accelerator and content delivery network, and the early WebArcher internet search tool.[10] In late 1998, Clearway was involved in an early ad-blocking controversy. Its release of the ad blocking web software AdScreen[11] angered its user base and spurred a lively discussion of the role of advertisements in web publishing. Based on user feedback, Clearway pulled AdScreen just two days later.[12]

Kriegsman is an active participant in several, often overlapping, areas of software development. He is one of the founders of Veracode, reflecting a long-standing interest in software security.[13] He is also, however, interested in both secure information sharing[14] and the open-access movement,[15] and has been an outspoken skeptic of what he sees as shady business practices in the computer industry.[16]

Background

Kriegsman's fascination with computers caught the attention of a local newspaper in 1979, when he was 13. Lucy Meyer of the New Jersey Summit Herald reported that "Mark... likes to make up programs, sometimes patterns and sometimes short programs 'that just pop into my head.'[17] He parlayed this skill and interest into writing computer games; at age 15 he released his first game, "StarBlaster", and later his second, "Panic Button."[18]

He graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst Massachusetts, where he studied cognitive science. After graduation, Kriegsman worked for Cognitive Systems, Inc., and later went on to found several successful technology companies, starting with Document.com and later including Clearway and Veracode.

Kriegsman is a descendant of William Bradford, leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, as well as of early Santa Fe merchants Willi and Flora Spiegelberg. Willi was the Mayor of Santa Fe from 1884-1886.[19][20]

Patents

Kriegsman holds the following patents:

Patents concerning Content Delivery Networks and Systems:

Patent concerning dynamic web page assembly and caching:

Publications

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wedding announcement, New York Times, 1995
  2. ↑ Veracode on LinkedIn
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kriegsman, Mark. "Two Fancy Tone Generators." Apple Assembly Line 1:9, June 1981.
  4. ↑ Kriegsman, Mark. "Continuous realtime background clock display (JCLOCK) for VT100+ terminals under VMS." Info-Vax Digest, 7 May 1987.
  5. ↑ Kriegsman, Mark and Alex Powers. "Parse CGI OSAX." InfoMotions, 26 September 1995.
  6. ↑ Doctorow, Cory. "Quake III for PocketPC, network play over GPRS." Boing Boing, 4 October 2005.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Kriegsman's resume
  8. ↑ Kriegsman, Mark and Ralph Barletta. "Building a Case-Based Help Desk Application." IEEE Expert 1993.
  9. ↑ "Clearway Ships FireSite 2.5, Delivers Bandwidth on Demand." MacTech, on 20 January 1999. Accessed 14 April 2011.
  10. ↑ "WebArcher 1.5." MacNews, 26 August 1998.
  11. ↑ "Clearway Releases New 'AdScreen' Filter", MacNews, December 1998.
  12. ↑ "Firm pulls ad blocking software", CNET News, December 1998.
  13. ↑ Davis, Jim. "Apple Checks Sherlock for Bugs." CNET News, 23 October 1998.
  14. ↑ Meyeroff, Wendy J. "Got It? Share it." Healthcare Informatics, November 1998.
  15. ↑ Suber, Peter. "A Verb for the Act of Providing Open Access." SPARC Open Access Newsletter, April 2010.
  16. ↑ Derk, James S. "Online Document: New Web Browsers from Microsoft, Netscape." Deseret News, 21 August 1996.
  17. ↑ Meyer, Lucy. "Are Computers Taking the Place of Yule Sleds and Bicycles?" Summit Herald, Summit, NJ, December 13, 1979, p.14.
  18. ↑ The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers, last accessed 14 April 2011.
  19. ↑ http://www.storiesuntold.org/women/flora_text.html
  20. ↑ "Floyd S. Fierman papers, ca. 1850-1997 (bulk: 1870 - 1970)," Arizona State University Archives. Last accessed 14 April 2011.

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