Biographies

Alan Cox is a fellow at Red Hat. He is widely regarded as number two to Linus Torvalds in the heirarchy of Linux kernel developers. Alan maintains the 2.2 releases, and assists Marcelo Tosatti with the 2.4 kernel tree.

Alan is also an active member of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, and the author of many articles on the Linux system. Prior tojoining Red Hat Alan was the managing director of Bulding Number Three Ltd, a Linux consultancy, the technical director of CymruNet, and has also worked for companies including NTL and 3Com. Alan has a BSc (hons) in Computer Science from the Universt of Wales, Swansea.

URLS:
www.fipr.org - foundation for information policy research
www.redhat.com - red hat
www.swan.ac.uk - swansea university