- Karl Lehenbauer
Karl Lehenbauer (born
April 5 ,1958 ) was the founder ofNeoSoft in the early 1990s, which was the firstInternet Service Provider in the southern United States as well as the first to offercable modem service inHouston, Texas , among other technological milestones. NeoSoft was later sold toInternet America in 1998. Lehenbauer also wrote the Internet (socket) capabilities of theTcl programming language.Lehenbauer has been contributing to the development of Internet software and protocols since 1986. Lehenbauer is the co-creator of the
TclX programming language, much of which has now been incorporated intoTcl . Lehenbauer now serves as the CTO ofSuperconnect , an enterprise cable/telecom monitoring software company and also as CTO ofFlightAware , an aviation data and flight tracking company.Recent software projects
Lehenbauer founded or is a major contributor to the following Internet software projects:
*
Apache Rivet (Modern fork of NeoWebScript)
* pgtcl (Tcl interface toPostgreSQL )
* ldaptcl (Tcl interface to LDAP)
* NeoWebScript (Apache module for Tcl scripting in web pages)Personal
Lehenbauer lives in
Houston, Texas with his wife and two daughters. He is an avidphilanthropist ,cyclist , and private pilot.Recent appearances
* [http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/05/bsdtalk042-interview-with-karl.html BSDTalk Interview (May 2006)]
* [http://2004.sxsw.com/interactive/panels/index.php?action=detail&con=ia&id=82 SXSW 2004]
* [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2001/view/e_spkr/732 O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2001]References
* [http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64584,00.html?tw=rss.TOP Wired News - Internet Heading To Light Speed] (8/2004)
* [http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/page1/97/02/09/aolstory.2-0.html Houston Chronicle - It's a cybermess for online service] (2/1997)
* [http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/business/96/09/29/main.html Houston Chronicle - Web lures faithful away from bulletin boards] (9/1996)
* [http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/business/96/05/14/modem.html Houston Chronicle - 'Net access by cable gets local debut] (5/1996)External links
* [http://sc.com/ Superconnect]
* [http://flightaware.com/about/executives/lehenbauer FlightAware Executive Profiles: Karl Lehenbauer]
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