A man who has his fingers in far too many pies, but gets away with it. His
Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing was one of the first and still one of the most highly regarded texts on
web publishing. He is also a lecturer at
MIT, where his course on software development for the Web is highly regarded. His e-mail address has not changed since 1976: philg@mit.edu. He has recently founded
ArsDigita, which is a company that specialises in developing community-oriented web sites for
Fortune 500 companies. They offer the
ArsDigita Community Server as
open source, and it's gaining a lot of recognition (it runs on top of
AOLServer and
Oracle). He is an avid
photographer, and his site
photo.net is considered one of the best sources for information on photography on the Web. It also hosts
photo album services for thousands of people.
He's also quite an entertaining speaker and a genial guy, and obviously quite intelligent. Probably a multi-millionaire.
His home page: http://philip.greenspun.com/