Ed Zimmermann is a trained mathematician and research economist. Before starting BSn he worked at a bunch of international think tanks and research institutes. In computer networking he goes back in his early teens to the dawn of the ARPAnet where as enfant terrible he got tutored by Leonard Kleinrock (the father of packet switching), explored artificial intelligence and brain research, fiddled with designing a distributed network language (the network as a bemoth virtual computer inspired by the Iliac-IV) and defined the early semantics for the term "computer hacker" and the historical basis for some contemporary cyber/nethacking folklore. He was there when the first Unix machine was delivered to UCLA NMS. He was also part of a team of other adolescents that developed one of the very first personal micro-computers (1972). Before he toyed up with ARPA be was haunting the U.S. telephone networks as a legendary "phone phreak" and before that he was drinking milk from a bottle and learning how to walk...
Norbert Poellmann is a trained and certified psychologist. One man's insanity is another man's vision. Or is it the other way around?
BSn started in 1992 to provide and define technology for a vision of nomadic information appliances. From providing Internet services BEFORE even the U.S. national backbones were privatized from the NSF (U.S. National Science Foundation) and released from the AUPs (Acceptable Use Policies which prohibited commercial use) to running one of the first dozen web server in the world, early developer of pen based system, author of the first MAIL to HTML program (See the W3c archive), one of the earliest developers of streaming MPEG-3 (when it was still a developing CODEC at the Frauenhofer Institute) to being one of the first to deploy XML (before it was even called XML).. co-developer of wxPython... and and and.. developing Z39.50/ISO 23950.. search technology.. The team has, to put it mildly, "been there, done that"!
