Netsurfer Staff

Publisher & Executive Editor

Arthur Bebak

Vice President and Publisher

Sun Ming Lieu

Editor, Netsurfer Science

Judith David

Contributing Editor, Netsurfer Science

Lawrence Nyveen

Production Manager and Netmaster

Bill Woodcock

Staff Writers

Jason Alderman

Adam Kent

Craig Kott

Davide Di Lazzaro

Michael Luke

Bruce Rappaport

Elizabeth Rollins

Jim Tsitanidis

Richard Wagner

Roy Winkler

Longer ago than he cares to remember Arthur was educated at the University of Illinois where he picked up a degree in Computer Engineering on a fencing scholarship (go figure). Fleeing Illinois topography for more vertically challenging terrain, he wound up in California designing mainframes and doing critical project management for Amdahl Corporation. He studied business administration at Golden Gate University and has worked with large Internet companies, such as Netscape, Doubleclick, SCO, ShopEaze and others. Today he helms Netsurfer Communications and uses his considerable and hard won experience to consult on matters of cyberspace. Arthur is the co-author of Creating Web Pages for Dummies, part of a popular series of technical guide books for beginners. In his voluminous spare time Arthur hallucinates in Perl.

Sun Ming Lieu - Vice President and Publisher

Sun Ming drifts through life catching fun and interesting projects. These include, in no particular order, being Chief Cat Herder at Cygnus Solutions, the first and largest Open Source Software company, capacity planning for Charles Schwab's web trading servers, a Ph.D. in Theoretic Plant (the little green ones) Morphology, judging the Global Information Infrastructure Awards, daytrading through the meltdown of summer 98, and remodeling fixer-upper houses, companies, and friends. Currently her eclectic outlook is behind the erratically-published Netsurfer Focus.

Bill Woodcock - Production Manager and Netmaster

Bill Woodcock is a TCP/IP and AppleTalk networking consultant in Berkeley, California. He's the one who maintains the hosts that bring Netsurfer publications to you. Being an engineer by trade and an artist by education, Bill likes to think of himself as a dabbler in each, by turns. He's the author of McGraw-Hill's Networking the Macintosh, and writes regularly for Network World and Connections, and occasionally for MacWorld and MacWEEK. He sits on the board of the Apple Network Managers Association, and sits on standards bodies of the AppleTalk Networking Forum.

Judith David - Editor, Netsurfer Science

Judith David adds to the disproportionately represented Canadian contingent at NSD. She never did settle on a major, but of what she learned in postsecondary institutions, propaganda studies and the philosophy and history of Western law seem to have stuck best. This, of course, didn't stop her from being editor for four years of the Canadian Medical Association's monthly publication on medical politics and economics. (It's Canada, folks. Remember health care as a social good and all that stuff.) She now freelances as a writer and small publications designer and - wouldn't you know it - works mostly with health care organizations. Judith's Irish wolfhound and Doberman do not share her interest in archery and Delta blues.

Lawrence Nyveen - Contributing Editor, Netsurfer Science

Lawrence (usually known as Laurie), was a writer and copy editor with Netsurfer Digest until tapped for everlasting fame and of all free time as editor of that publication. He grew up in Montreal, attended Rice University in Houston (B.A. in biology and anthropology), and soon found himself studying ornithiscian dinosaurs at Yale.

One thing led to another, and soon Laurie was walking across the stage, receiving his grad diploma in journalism from Concordia University in Montreal. After a short stint at a real job with Reader's Digest (Canada), he eventually hooked up with Arthur, who was looking for something he had to offer. It was probably the glamour of Reader's Digest. Either that or his tie.

Besides editing NSD, Laurie takes care of his two little girls, Elisabeth and Ilana; serves as DNRC Minister of Adding "ue" to Words That End in "log; sends people around the world to virtual flaming deaths in WarBirds; writes for Netsurfer Science; and does some freelancy stuff. He's responsible for hiring Barnes (q.v.), proof that the judicious purchase of beer for others can at times be a career-opening opportunity.

Staff Writers

Jason Alderman

Jason Alderman graduated in 1998 with a BS degree in physics with a focus on astronomy. He's since moved to Florida, where he works in an office with a window overlooking the space launches down the coast. Jason likes writing for NSS so much, he does it for free. In his spare time, he likes to run, draw, and make web pages.

Adam Kent

Adam is about to embark on a combined Bachelor of Information Technology / Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Queensland (that's in Australia). He's written a few HTML tutorials for an Australian internet magazine but hasn't done anything else really exciting with his life as yet. An avid web surfer, Adam also fills in waking moments by swimming, and playing basketball and cricket. He aspires to do web design work one day, and might even get around to redoing his homepage soon.

Craig Kott

Craig A. Kott is a senior consultant at the Syntel Corporation, with 15 years of experience performing analysis, design, and development work for a number of Fortune 500 companies in the health, automotive, entertainment, electronics, and manufacturing fields. He currently lives near (but not too near) Detroit, Michigan with his wife and daughter. His interest in science, though assaulted during those college years (by the likes of that Portuguese physics professor and her "party girls" travelling at 32m/s), has grown, and now encompasses many different areas; current projects include the construction of an AI system, the study of chaos theory as applied to carnivals, the petrification of his house and the fusing of atomic nuclei with common garden tools. He also spends too much time on the Web. If you knew him in the past, and found his name, here, as the result of some tireless and demented search, then you should be ashamed of yourself! You know who you are!

Davide Di Lazzaro

My name is Davide Di Lazzaro, born in Rome the 11th of march, 1966. After high school, I graduated in Medicine, and I have just ended my five year residency in Cardiac Surgery. This is the dream of a child becoming reality! Now I am working as cardiac surgeon in Perugia, a little city one hour and half from Rome (and very close to Assisi, which perhaps somebody could recognize better than Perugia), but I like to span my knowledge and curiosity toward many directions. So, I go wandering with my motor bike as much as possible, write reviews of shareware programs for the website SharewareJunkies.com, play tennis, soccer, write little essays (in italian...), play role-playing games, mess with PC. Where do I find all the time do do everything? I don't know, perhaps it is because I am not married...

Michael Luke

Michael Luke lives in a small Manitoba town on the banks of the Winnipeg River where he spends most of the (short) summer swimming and most of the (long) winter in hockey arenas watching his youngest daughter play for the Whiteshell Wolverines. After growing up in Montreal, he obtained a B.Sc in Chemistry from Dalhousie University, then returned to Montreal to do research for a pharmaceutical company, get married and start a family. Following a move to Manitoba, for twenty-five years he was a technical editor, information retrieval expert and senior manager for a nuclear research organisation. He has four children, three of them successfully spun off as independent entities. A major nuclear downsizing has now cast him up on early retirements' challenging shores where he is establishing a home-based information retrieval business when other activities don't interfere. These other activities include model railways, local history, reading, classical music, walking, bicycling, swimming, gardening (and its attendant endless figuring out of ways, usually futile, to keep white-tailed deer from eating everything except weeds), computer games, and fleeing winter, in ratios which vary in complex ways requiring several supercomputers to unravel.

Bruce Rappaport

Bruce is one of those people who wanted to be a nuclear physicist when he was a kid. In seventh grade, he won the science fair and was asked to share his explanation of "relativity" with other classes. Now his explanation made no sense at all, but no one knew any better. Sadly, his scientific career was stopped in its tracks by consistent "C's"' in high school physics. Umpteen years later, Bruce rediscovered science. No longer was science a boring world of nerds and formulas but a place where the furthest out ideas were not only discussed but accepted. He noticed that the science teacher's at his daughter's schools were always the most excited about their subject. So Bruce dove back in. This time his learning theory was that since he was in no hurry -- no grades, no requirements-- if he just read enough books magazines and NASA stories, and just understood a little from each, that sooner of later he would learn by osmosis. His love for science is stronger than ever; whether he has learned anything is up to the reader to decide.

Elizabeth Rollins

Elizabeth Rollins has written for print, TV and radio. Most of her experience has been as been as a writer/producer/reporter for various programs and networks, including ABC Radio Networks, Westwood One, Marketplace, and The Christian Science Monitor. She lives and surfs in Los Angeles.

Jim Tsitanidis

Jim Tsitanidis has more than 15 years experience in the area of health care in Canada. His formal training is in general economic theory with particular emphasis in health economics. Schooling in three countries (undergrad studies in Athens, Greece; a Masters from Queen's University in Canada, and his "all but dissertation - minus one comprehensive exam" PhD at the State University of New York at Buffalo) exposed him to economic theories and interpretations on both sides of the Atlantic. Jim's supplemented his economics training with MBA courses in human resources management and organizational behavior and is a frequent lecturer to graduate and undergraduate classes in economics and health policy courses at universities in Canada and the United States. When economics fails to provide joie de vivre, he turns to his other loves in life - travel, cooking, collecting sports memorabilia and, last but not least, Belgian sheepdogs. Jim recently left the corporate world to start his own Toronto-based health care and strategic management consulting company, Ariston Consulting Group Inc.

Richard Wagner

Richard lives in the western Massachusetts town of Northampton, hotbed of liberalism, New Agers, college kids, crafts-types, and gender benders. Cruising through the gale force 40's, he with his smashing bride Ruth delight in a family of eleven-year-old twins and an eerily precocious three-year old. While living in the malarial environs of Washington, DC, he edited the National Space Society's magazine Ad Astra. After fleeing DC's bugs and bullets, he co-authored "The Case for Mars" with friend and rocket scientist Bob Zubrin. His current projects include "Designs on Space: Blueprints for 21st Century Space Exploration," due out in the spring of 2000 (if he meets the deadline) and a soon to be launched e-zine ("we'll launch when we get the kinks out 'o the links") "New Mars: A journal of the Martian frontier". Unbelievably, he quit writing for Netsurfer Digest just a few months ago after surviving one too many Java applet inspired system crashes. The lure of Netsurfer Science proved too strong. Must have been digital pheromones. Theological affiliation: Mac OS.

Roy Winkler

Roy holds a master of science in management (M.S.M.) degree from Indiana Wesleyan University. He also holds a B.S. in management science and an A.A.S. in machine tool technology. Roy is currently writing his doctoral dissertation for his Ph.D. in education. He started his career as a production worker in a G.M. auto factory. Later, he was awarded a four year apprenticeship in skilled trades, from which he graduated as a journeyman Tool & Die Maker in 1979. From 1982 to 1998, Roy served as the Senior Consultant for Training and Human Resource Development for Delco Remy Division of G.M. and U.A.W. Local 662. In 1998, he retired from GM and took the position of Director of Business and Industry Training for Ivy Tech State College. Roy has been an avid computer hobbyist since 1982 when he purchased his first Commodore 64. He has been a computer B.B.S. sysop, a webmaster, and president of the Anderson Computer User's Group. Roy is married Bess Winkler, has a daughter, a wonderful son-in-law, and a mean little granddaughter.