Ben Kurtz is a software engineer at an industry-leading model-based design company. Earlier, he earned his Masters of Computer Science by applying language theory to the visual analysis of probe data under the DARPA DASADA program. Soon afterward, he discovered that it's much easier to break something than to fix it, and became the principal researcher and developer of threat generation and analysis technologies at Imperfect Networks. In other incarnations, he has worked on critical systems for power plants, passenger jets, and insurance companies. If you knew him better, this would make you nervous.