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Peter Christy is a principal at Internet Research Group. He has been involved with the computer and communications industries since the late 60's. Educated as an undergraduate at Harvard, and graduate school at Berkeley, Mr. Christy started as a system programmer building operating systems at CSC. Next was an exploration of medical information systems at UCSF, and then a decade at DEC in the heyday period of 1975-1985, starting at Technical Staff to the VP of Software Engineering, and ending in the middle of VLSI systems, including work with DECNet from the very beginning. Mr. Christy was briefly at HP, serving as manager of network architecture, ran engineering for IBM/Rolm PhoneMail operations, and then was founder and VP of Software Engineering for MasPar Computers, building mid-range, highly parallel computers in the late 1980's. That was followed by business development for Sun's object oriented Spring operating system, and then running much of Apple's developer tools efforts, including program responsibilities for Apple's involvement with IBM and Novell on OpenDoc. Mr. Christy learned the analysis business from Michael Slater, running the small Ziff-Davis operation that Mr. Slater had started around microprocessors, publishing the Microprocessor Report and convening the Microprocessor Forum All this experience is, remarkably, actually brought to bear in the current Internet Research Group activities. | 