Bruce Holmes and Small Aircraft Transportation

Esther Dyson photographed Bruce Homes in April of 2007. Bruce was a speaker at Esther's Flight School. Since I did not know who he was, I looked him up. Here is what I found:

Bios
- Presenter Bio for Streamcenter (provides on demand webcasts of conference presentations)
- Bio for National Academies (The National Academies perform an unparalleled public service by bringing together committees of experts in all areas of scientific and technological endeavor. These experts serve pro bono to address critical national issues and give advice to the federal government and the public.)
- Bio from Advanced Planning Office, NASA

Other items
- Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (AGATE) on Wikipedia
- Flight School 2007 (June 20-22, Aspen) includes Bruce Holmes, NASA, retired, on the speakers list. (Note that links include a blog for Flight school participants with its first entry (as of May 3, 2007).
- Scott Nance blog on FDA approval of VLJ which quotes Bruce Holmes and credits AGATE with improvement in small plane technology that has paved the way for the approval (October 30, 2006).
- CBS News story on 60 Minutes program "Flying Cars Ready to Take Off" (April 17, 2005) See also the NASA page on the 60 Minutes program with a link to view the program.
- Flight School 5 report (March 25, 2005) on Bruce Holmes' presentation. Esthr is also quoted.
- Transportation Network Technologies (May 5, 2004) from Dr. Holmes' presentation with really cool graphics (14-page pdf)

Images
- Bruce Holmes images on Google.
- Bruce Holmes images on Esthr's Flickr.

Anatoly Karachinsky, founder/CEO of IBS Group in Russia

Another one of Esther Dyson's interesting people taken on April 15, 2007.

My curiosity leads me to google Esther's people when I have time. Here's Anatoly:
Executive Bio on IBS
More detailed bio from IBS
Background information from "National Geographics", November 2001, pp. 2-13.
The Man Who Wired Russia from Global Finance, April 2003, by Mark Johnson (this link because it is all on one page)
Esthr's photos of Anatoly and the only photos of him on Flickr at this time.
Here is the link to all Anatoly photos on Flickr.

What is strange is that earlyadopter has a nice photo of Anatoly with tags, but it does not show up even when I click on its own tags.

AmCham Dinner in Russia

More of Esther Dyson's interesting people! This was "cutting up the rug" at the American Chamber of Commerce Dinner in Russia on April 14, 2007.

Peter Pettibone, Esq.
- official biography on Hogan & Hartson
- Space Law Probe blog entry, 11-22-05. Byline: "Not for lawyers and space tourists only" This is a blog of Jesse Londin (aka
Buzz), who also writes "Law Buzz." She "is a lawyer, writer, online editor and Web forum host. She lives in New York where she sometimes sleeps but her browser windows never close." Anyone interested in space travel should read her blog. The blogroll is also impressive!
- Finance article written by Peter and Sergey Komolov (who runs the Moscow office of Space Adventures). Scroll down to the end for an informative short bio.

Pat Cloherty
- Official bio on Delta Private Equity Partners
- Rainbow Recognition (Press release, 21 Dec. 2005)
- Press release on her appointment as CEO of Delta Capital Management / The U.S.-Russia Investment Fund (15 Dec. 2003). She was already chairwoman of the Fund before this appointment.

London's Eye

When I was last in London, there was no Eye! Ester Dyson's photos (April 11, 2007) keep me up to date with the world outside New York.

A few links for the Eye:
(+) Starting with this other photo by Esthr
(+) Official Site of the Eye and an Alternate address to same site
(+) Wickipedia on London Eye which gives the most info on how it was built, its history and interesting photos. It includes a panaroma view from the Eye (1MB). There is also some discussion of possible eviction from their present site.
(+) British Airways London Eye from a guidebook perspective
(+) an areal representation from New London Architecture showing the size of the installation
(+) Photo Guide to BA London Eye

My friend from high school was also snapping photos of the Eye. Here it is seen from a boat. Here is a view from on the Eye. Here is from inside the capsule.

Tracking and Data Relay Satellites at Russia's Mission Control

Another photo by Esther Dyson taken on April 9, 2007 in Russia during the Soyuz space flight of Charles Simonyi. One should really click over to Esther's photo on Flickr where she has posted notes on the photo explaining what each area of the screen is.

Jüri Kaljundi added this comment to Esther's photo: "Basically there used to be 6 TDRS (tracking and data relay) satellites which can provide "no rest period" communication between the spacecraft and customer (or NASA). Out of the 6 only half should be operational online at any time, while 3 are in backup mode. ISS is one of many customers of the system. TDRSS 2 was destroyed in Challenger accident so satellite no 7 was built. Now I believe generation 2 of TDRSS is operational with 3 additional satellites. "

See Esthr's blog posting for more information.

Nice graphic representation of TDRSS

Wikipedia entries for
TDRSS
TDRS

Bruce Schneier at the EFF Pioneer Awards

Another one of Esther Dyson's people snapped on March 27, 2007.

EFF Pioneer Awards
Press Release

Quote from the Press Release
"Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist acclaimed for his criticism and commentary on everything from network security to national security. His books -- including the highly influential "Secrets and Lies" and "Applied Cryptography" -- his monthly newsletter, and his security blog have reached hundreds of thousands of people with candid and lucid analysis of security issues. Schneier has often testified before Congress on security policy."

"Benkler, Doctorow, and Schneier were nominated by the public and then chosen by a panel of judges. This year's panel includes Kim Alexander (President and founder, California Voter Foundation), Esther Dyson (Internet court jester and blogger, Release 0.9; founding chairman of ICANN; former chairman of EFF), Mitch Kapor (Chair, Open Source Applications Foundation; co-founder and former chairman EFF), Drazen Pantic (Co-director, Location One), Barbara Simons (IBM Research [Retired] and former president ACM), James Tyre, (Co-founder, The Censorware Project; EFF policy fellow) and Jimmy Wales, (Founder, Wikipedia; co-founder, Wikia; chair emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation)."

Cory Doctorow

Another one of Esther Dyson's people snapped on March 27, 2007.

EFF Pioneer Awards
Press Release

Quote from the Press Release
"Cory Doctorow is an activist, writer, blogger, and public speaker about copyright, digital rights management, and electronic freedom. As a co-editor of the Boing Boing blog, he highlights critical technology issues for more than a million readers a day. Doctorow has lectured around the globe and has been nominated for Hugo and Nebula Awards for his science fiction. Doctorow is currently the Canadian Fulbright Chair at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. He was EFF's European Affairs Coordinator until December of 2005."

"Benkler, Doctorow, and Schneier were nominated by the public and then chosen by a panel of judges. This year's panel includes Kim Alexander (President and founder, California Voter Foundation), Esther Dyson (Internet court jester and blogger, Release 0.9; founding chairman of ICANN; former chairman of EFF), Mitch Kapor (Chair, Open Source Applications Foundation; co-founder and former chairman EFF), Drazen Pantic (Co-director, Location One), Barbara Simons (IBM Research [Retired] and former president ACM), James Tyre, (Co-founder, The Censorware Project; EFF policy fellow) and Jimmy Wales, (Founder, Wikipedia; co-founder, Wikia; chair emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation)."