Brian J. S. Chee

Brian J.S. Chee lives in Kaneohe, Hawaii with his family tracing back four generations in Hawaii. With a background in teaching Physics and Computer Science, Brian became the first Netware instructor in Hawaii and one of the first ten in the world, in addition to working as inside sales for PC distribution, and outside sales for products like X.25/SNA/SDLC/HDLC and other data communications test equipment. He served on the Coalition for Competitive Communications which achieved destruction of the local telephone monopoly a full year before the federal deregulation of the intraLATA communications market nationwide. Other jobs included a stop with Xerox as an interfacing specialist, a support manager for a Netware Value Added Reseller and eventually a stint as Senior Computer Scientist for the General Services Administration-Office of Information Security where he designed, built and supported secure data/video/voice communications systems around the globe. Currently serving as a communications researcher at the University of Hawaii School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST). Also publishing as a Senior Contributing Editor for InfoWorld Magazine, Brian and his lab has been home of the biggest InfoWorld (and previously Internet Week) comparative reviews in history. Notably, he owns the front panel of the Imsai 8080 that Gordon Eubanks used to write C Basic under the polar icecap (first compiled language for microcomputers), has a length of wire a nanosecond long from Commander Grace Hopper, and has Dr. AlohaNET (Norman Abramson) on his PhD committee. (if he even gets moving on the silly thing again) Last but not least, he co-hosts This Week in Enterprise Technology on theTWiT.tv network.