Visitors

A very incomplete list of in one or the other way prominent people who gave a talk, lecture, attended a meeting at the Metalab or just dropped by...

(in alphabetical order)

A...C

• Mitch Altman, hacker and inventor
• Jake Appelbaum, photographer, world traveller, unix user
• El Awadalla, non-fiction author, dialect writer, ...
• Martin Balluch, animal rights activist
• Jeff Barr, web services evangelist at amazon.com
• Juraj Bednar, a geek from Bratislava
• Scott Blake, barcode artist
• bon, Bratislava Connection
• Sean Bonner, hacking the media
• Thomas Brandstetter, communication and media scientist
• Wolfgang Breyha, ZID master of all mail servers, Vienna University
• Jason Brown, ambient noisemaker, constellation manipulator, and paranoid historiographer
• Thomas Bugnyar, behavioural biology and cognitive science researcher
• Duncan Campbell, investigative journalist, author
• Alex J. Champandard, senior AI programmer
• Harald Chmela, Grundlagenforschung und Entwicklung, Autor
• Thomas Clausen, mesh routing researcher
• Erinn Clark, Tor developer
• Eddie Codel, videographer

D...F

• Gerhard Diendorfer, lightning researcher
• John Draper AKA Captain Crunch
• Herbert Edelsbrunner, computational geometry and topology researcher
• Jeri Ellsworth, entrepreneur and self-taught computer chip designer
• Rick Falkvinge, leader and founder of the Swedish Pirate Party
• Nick Farr, treasurer and co-founder of the Hacker Foundation
• Gabriel Finch (a.k.a salsaman), video artist and main developer of LiVES
• Rasmus Fleischer, founding member and spokesman of the Swedish Piratbyrån
• Norbert Frischauf, physicist and outer space expert
• Fukami, security consultant and researcher

G...J

• GameJew AKA Jonathan Mann
• Ille Gebeshuber, nanotechnology researcher at Atomic and Plasma Physics group, University of Technology Vienna
• Robert Glashüttner, radio journalist, fm4 blogger, videogame afficionado
• Emmanuel Goldstein, publisher of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, radio show host, documentary film producer
• Johannes Grenzfurthner, media artist and monochrom.at co-founder
• Li Gong, Chairman and CEO of Mozilla Online Ltd., Beijing
• Sven Guckes, Free Software and command line enthusiast
• Martin Haase, multi-linguist engaged in open source- and open content projects
• Ralf Habel, computer graphics wizard
• Johanna Haigl, umraum art router architect
• Martin Herfurt, Bluetooth security expert
• Andreas von Heydwolff, consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist
• Edmund Humenberger, background in promoting open source and entrepreneurship
• Birgitta Jónsdóttir, parlamentarian from Iceland, press freedom activist

K...M

• Martin Kaltenbrunner, human computer interaction designer
• Dan Kaminsky, security researcher
• L. Aaron Kaplan, IT security professional and FunkFeuer activist
• Peter Kopacek, head of Institute of Handling Devices and Robotics, Vienna University of Technology
• Julian Kenning, painter and game art designer
• Jeff Keyzer, MightyOhm
• Andreas Krisch, privacy advocate
• Constanze Kurz, computer scientist and CCC activist
• Nino Leitner, director and artist
• Nicole Lieger, political scientist (in combination with jurisprudence and economics)
• Johannes Majer, quantum physicist
• Armin Medosch, author and media artist
• Daniel Meßner, cultural scientist
• Erich Moechel, journalist and privacy advocate
• moot, founder of 4chan
• Andy Mueller-Maguhn, long-time CCC core member

N...Q

• Tobias Nöbauer, physicist and sociologist
• Quinn Norton, journalist (Wired, Guardian, O'Reilly), (body) hacker
• Heinz Oberhummer, astrophysicist and "science buster"
• Jens Ohlig, hacker and former CCC spokesman
• Vik Olliver, RepRap developer who believes "specialisation is just for insects"
• Trevor Paglen, geographer and artist
• pajkus, hysteria.sk founder
• Meredith L. Patterson, the smart, polite nerd
• Bre Pettis, artist and podcaster who MAKEs things
• Peter Pilz, politician, Austrian Green Party
• Tim Pritlove, CCC event manager, media artist, discordian
• Peter Purgathofer, scientist at the Department for Design and Assessment of Technology, Technical University Vienna
• Richard Pyrker,PR professional and journalist

R...T

• Peter Rastl, Austrian Internet pioneer, head of Vienna University Computer Center
• Stefan Rotter, theoretical physicist
• Laura Rudas, politician, Austrian Socialdemocratic Party
• Gerhard Ruiss, author, stakeholder, musician
• Len Sassaman, cypherpunk and privacy advocate
• Christian Schmaus, human rights expert
• Jason Scott, digital historian and archivist
• Alexander K. Seewald, computer scientist
• Chris Soghoian, privacy and computer security researcher
• Daniel AJ Sokolov, journalist
• Felix Stalder, author & lecturer for digital culture
• Starbug, hacker and CCC activist
• Henry Story, semantic web software engineer, named the translation service Babelfish
• Sybille Straubinger, politician, Austrian Socialdemocratic Party
• Szathmáry Viktor, software developer & entrepreneur from nextlab.hu
• Lisa Thalheim, computer scientist and biohacker
• Robert F. Tobler, key researcher at the VRVis
• Charlie Todd, comedian, Improv Everywhere

U...W

• Stefan Uttenthaler, astrophysicist
• James Vasile, Executive Director of the FreedomBox Foundation
• Hans Christian Voigt, sociologist and publisher
• Vic, chairman of the German CCC e.V.
• Kurt Weckel, umraum art router architect
• Stefan Wiltschnig, assistant to the vice-rector Infrastructure and Business Development, university of economics
• Franz-Ferdinand Wolf, journalist and politician, Austrian People's Party
• Claudia-Elisabeth Wulz, high energy physicist at CERN
• Jürgen Wutzlhofer, politician, Austrian Socialdemocratic Party

X...Z

• Franz Xaver, long-time media artist
• Jamison Young, indepent artist
• Alexander Zach, politician, Austrian Liberal Forum
• Regine Zawodsky, physicist
• Jérémie Zimmermann, co-founder and spokesperson for LaQuadrature du Net
• Michael Zwingl, radio ham and President of the Austrian Amateur Radio Society