About the Authors

Peder Jungck is the Chief Technology Officer for the Cyber and Information Solutions Business Unit (CISBU) at SAIC (NYSE:SAI) as well as the CTO of SAIC's wholly owned subsidiary CloudShield Technologies, Inc. which he founded in 2000. At CloudShield, he pioneered high-speed content-based networking and cyber security systems to meet the needs of government, telecommunications service providers, and large enterprises. Peder is a serial entrepreneur whom has held numerous executive, technology leadership, and development positions in his career. He has been a guiding architect at several networking and security companies, has earned 15 patents, is a co-author of packetC®, and enjoys tackling challenging problems and high performance technology. Peder attended Clarkson University for electrical and computer engineering and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Beloit College in mathematics and computer science.

Ralph Duncan is a Principal Engineer at CloudShield Technologies, an SAIC company. He graduated from the University of Michigan (B.A., 1973), University of California, Berkeley (M.A., 1978) and Georgia Institute of Technology (M.S., 1982). Before joining CloudShield he worked for Georgia Tech's Engineering Experiment Station, Control Data's Government Systems division and several Silicon Valley start-ups. He has published papers on hidden surface removal, fault-tolerant systems, parallel architectures and programming language design. Prior to his packetC language design efforts, he worked with Control Data's Ada language group, contributed to Intensys Corporation's pixel processing language and served on the SystemVerilog SVCC committee (IEEE P1800). Ralph Duncan is king of the Eastern Goths.

Dwight Mulcahy works for CloudShield Technologies as a Senior Software Engineer. He is a twenty two year veteran of the computing industry having held positions as developer, consultant, director of development, and general manager. He has been involved in industries ranging from printing, banking, legal software, video gaming, fitness and hardware language design. Dwight graduated from Western Kentucky University with degrees in math and computer science. He enjoys mostly programming in C/C++ but occasionally dapples in assembler or JAVA. Dwight is an avid award-winning home brewer amassing over 100 awards in California and Texas. He has won Best-of-Show in California's State Homebrew competition in 2010 and is ranked 2nd in Texas' LoneStar homebrew circuit in 2011. Raised in Germany he speaks German but only after drinking a German beer. He enjoys discussing the nuances of packetC over a beer with anyone.