Andrew Oram

Andy Oram is an editor at O'Reilly Media, a highly respected book

publisher and technology information provider. An employee of the

company since 1992, Andy currently specializes in open source,

networking, and software engineering, but his editorial output has

ranged from a legal guide covering intellectual property to a graphic

novel about teenage hackers. His work for O'Reilly includes the

influential 2001 title Peer-to-Peer, the 2005 ground-breaking book

Running Linux, and the 2007 best-seller Beautiful Code.

Andy also writes often for O'Reilly's Radar site

(http://radar.oreilly.com/) and other publications on policy issues

related to the Internet and on trends affecting technical innovation

and its effects on society. Print publications where his work has

appeared include The Economist, Communications of the ACM, Copyright

World, and Internet Law and Business. His web site is

http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/.