About the Contributors

Lee Goldberg
Armed with a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Thomas Edison College, Lee spent 20 years deep in the bowels of the electronics industry before deciding to trade in his scope probe for a pen. In 1999, Lee become a senior technology editor for ChipCenter where his primary beat is communications technology. To read Lee's complete bio click here.

Frank Greenhalgh
Frank Greenhalgh has been working in power supplies and systems for 38 years. He has many impressive accomplishments and patents. Over the years he has made significant contributions to Trio Laboratories where he held the position of Chief Design Engineer and was then promoted to Vice President.

He co-founded CEAG Electric Corporation (now ABB CEAG) and developed the first mainframe power system using the droop paralleling concept. He has written numerous articles and columns, presented papers at the milestone PowerCon convention and consulted for ABB CEAG and other companies. Recently his accomplishments include the development of two Web sites, "http://i.cmpnet.com/chipcenter/eexpert/lgoldberg/www.fgl.com" with the Power Corner and "http://i.cmpnet.com/chipcenter/eexpert/lgoldberg/www.amityville.com". Frank is presently functioning as "Director of Technical Sales" for Toritsu Tsushin Kogoyo Corp.

Janet Kroenke
Janet is an artist, a freelance writer, and a member of the ChipCenter Irregulars—our stable of talented technophiles—who also love writing about technology on a part-time basis and is ChipCenter's resident techno-anthropologist. She lives and works in northern New Jersey, and plays in Cyberspace. Her interests include science, religion and the History of Ideas. She is part-time hacker and paranormal investigator. She also provides a list of the best URLs for those of us who do our junk hunting on the Web.

Tom Mahon
ChipCenter's own Tom Mahon is defying Andy Warhol and enjoying much more than his predicted 15 minutes of fame. To our surprise and delight, Tom, who recently became our spiritual issues correspondent, seems to have already attracted a following in the fast-paced world of Silicon Valley. In a recent profile on the author/entrepreneur/scholar, the East Bay Business Journal lauded his mission to bring human values back into the mainstream of our increasingly technological world. He's led numerous discussions, given many talks, and had his essays published in places like the New York Times.

Tom Mahon finds that harmony between his responsibilities as a father, a public relations consultant, and a global citizen is an ongoing balancing act. Over the years, he's come up with a few truisms that help him remember what's really important when he's eyeball-deep in the swirl of the Gigabit-enabled, IPO-driven culture we now live in. He also speaks at industry gatherings and interfaith assemblies about living humanely with the fruits of our ingenuity. Tom has been writing about technology for over 25 years, as publicist, journalist, novelist and dramatist, and he is the author of two published books about Silicon Valley. Since the early '90s, Mahon has spoken and written widely on the subject of being human in a high-tech culture. Visit www.reconnecting.com for more information.)

Brian McGinty
McGinty is an Electronics Technician with an AS Degree from Thief River Falls Area Vocational-Technical Institute, and has dabbled in satellite communications, high-power transmitters, microcontrollers, networking and an extensive list of obsolete computer equipment. He first went online with an Atari ST computer and 300 baud external modem in 1988. In the process of rigorously avoiding programming, he has picked up several flavors of assembly language, scripting, and BASIC, yet prefers the language known as 'solder'. He currently works at a major theme park in central Florida.

Dr. John Smallberries
Dr. John Smallberries is a shadowy, Mulderian construct of AcmeVaporware (AVW), Inc., a shadowy, revolutionary parodic monstrosity that doles out incomprehensible OSI-model mimetics, pseudo-lexiconographical logistics, and torpolinguistic supply-chain data wake-up calls to anyone caught touching their monkey within the tri-state area. Information on AcmeVaporware, its future secret projects, and its delicious, profligate amounts of finest-quality vapor are mostly classified. Regardless, it's all on www.acmevaporware.com anyway, so whatever.

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