Mark Kriegsman
Encyclopedia
Mark Edwin Kriegsman is an American entrepreneur
, computer programmer
, inventor, writer
, and Director of Engineering at Veracode
. He lives in Arlington, MA along with his daughter, Eleanor, born in 2002.
), developing large scale rule-based, statistical, and text-processing AI systems. He later integrated those three technologies in a paper he wrote for IEEE. Designing document management systems at Interleaf
led him to found his first startup, Document.com. After founding Clearway, Kriegsman was a senior developer at @stake
, which was later acquired by Symantec
.
Clearway created the FireSite web accelerator and content delivery network
, and the early WebArcher internet search tool. In late 1998, Clearway was involved in an early ad-blocking controversy. Its release of the ad blocking web software AdScreen angered its user base and spurred a lively discussion of the role of advertisements in web publishing. Based on user feedback, Clearway pulled AdScreen just two days later.
Kriegsman is an active participant in several, often overlapping, areas of software development. He is one of the founders of Veracode, reflecting a long-standing interest in software security. He is also, however, interested in both secure information sharing and the open-access movement, and has been an outspoken skeptic of what he sees as shady business practices in the computer industry.
He graduated from Hampshire College
in Amherst Massachusetts, where he studied cognitive science. After graduation, Kriegsman worked for Cognitive Systems, Inc., and later went on to found several successful technology companies, starting with Document.com and later including Clearway and Veracode
.
Kriegsman is a descendant of William Bradford, leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, as well as of early Santa Fe merchants Willi and Flora Spiegelberg. Willi was the Mayor of Santa Fe from 1884-1886.
Patents concerning Content Delivery Networks and Systems:
Patent concerning dynamic web page assembly and caching:
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
, computer programmer
Programmer
A programmer, computer programmer or coder is someone who writes computer software. The term computer programmer can refer to a specialist in one area of computer programming or to a generalist who writes code for many kinds of software. One who practices or professes a formal approach to...
, inventor, writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
, and Director of Engineering at Veracode
Veracode
Veracode is a Burlington, Massachusetts-based application security company offering a cloud-based platform for application risk management. Veracode was founded in 2006 by a team of application security practitioners from @stake, Guardent, Symantec, and VeriSign to provide an automated third party...
. He lives in Arlington, MA along with his daughter, Eleanor, born in 2002.
Open Source, Web, and Software Security Work
Kriegsman has been writing and porting open-source software for 30 years. He founded and ran pioneering software companies, including Document.com, later acquired by Merrill, and Clearway Technologies, acquired by Mirror Image Internet. After college, Kriegsman worked for Cognitive Systems, Inc. (started by notable AI researcher Roger SchankRoger Schank
Roger Schank is an American artificial intelligence theorist, cognitive psychologist, learning scientist, educational reformer, and entrepreneur.-Academic career:...
), developing large scale rule-based, statistical, and text-processing AI systems. He later integrated those three technologies in a paper he wrote for IEEE. Designing document management systems at Interleaf
Interleaf
Founded in 1981, Interleaf was a company that created software products for the technical publishing creation and distribution process. Its initial product was the first commercial document processor that integrated text and graphics editing, producing WYSIWYG output at near-typeset quality...
led him to found his first startup, Document.com. After founding Clearway, Kriegsman was a senior developer at @stake
@stake
ATstake, Inc. was a computer security professional services company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 1999 by Battery Ventures and Ted Julian...
, which was later acquired by Symantec
Symantec
Symantec Corporation is the largest maker of security software for computers. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock market index.-History:...
.
Clearway created the FireSite web accelerator and content delivery network
Content Delivery Network
A content delivery network or content distribution network is a system of computers containing copies of data placed at various nodes of a network....
, and the early WebArcher internet search tool. In late 1998, Clearway was involved in an early ad-blocking controversy. Its release of the ad blocking web software AdScreen angered its user base and spurred a lively discussion of the role of advertisements in web publishing. Based on user feedback, Clearway pulled AdScreen just two days later.
Kriegsman is an active participant in several, often overlapping, areas of software development. He is one of the founders of Veracode, reflecting a long-standing interest in software security. He is also, however, interested in both secure information sharing and the open-access movement, and has been an outspoken skeptic of what he sees as shady business practices in the computer industry.
Background
Kriegsman's fascination with computers caught the attention of a local newspaper in 1979, when he was 13. Lucy Meyer of the New Jersey Summit Herald reported that "Mark... likes to make up programs, sometimes patterns and sometimes short programs 'that just pop into my head.' He parlayed this skill and interest into writing computer games; at age 15 he released his first game, "StarBlaster", and later his second, "Panic Button."He graduated from Hampshire College
Hampshire College
Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1965 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley: Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachusetts...
in Amherst Massachusetts, where he studied cognitive science. After graduation, Kriegsman worked for Cognitive Systems, Inc., and later went on to found several successful technology companies, starting with Document.com and later including Clearway and Veracode
Veracode
Veracode is a Burlington, Massachusetts-based application security company offering a cloud-based platform for application risk management. Veracode was founded in 2006 by a team of application security practitioners from @stake, Guardent, Symantec, and VeriSign to provide an automated third party...
.
Kriegsman is a descendant of William Bradford, leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, as well as of early Santa Fe merchants Willi and Flora Spiegelberg. Willi was the Mayor of Santa Fe from 1884-1886.
Patents
Kriegsman holds the following patents:Patents concerning Content Delivery Networks and Systems:
- US Patent 5,991,809, 1999
- US Patent 6,370,580, 2002
- US Patent 6,480,893, 2002
- US Patent 6,915,329, 2005
Patent concerning dynamic web page assembly and caching:
- US Patent 7,890,571, 2011
Publications
- Kriegsman, Mark. "Two Fancy Tone Generators." Apple Assembly Line 1:9, June 1981.
- Kriegsman, Mark and Ralph Barletta. "Building a Case-Based Help Desk Application." IEEE ExpertIEEE Intelligent SystemsIEEE Intelligent Systems, a bimonthly publication of the IEEE Computer Society. It is an AAAI-sponsored journal. Cosponsors are the British Computer Society and the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence....
8:6, 1993.