Mark Edwin Kriegsman (born 1966) is an American entrepreneur, computer

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, inventor, writer, and former Director of Engineering at

Veracode Veracode is an application security company based in Burlington, Massachusetts. Founded in 2006, it provides SaaS application security that integrates application analysis into development pipelines. The company provides multiple security analy ...

Open source, web, and software security work

Kriegsman has been writingKriegsman, Mark
"Two Fancy Tone Generators."
Apple Assembly Line 1:9, June 1981.Kriegsman, Mark
"Continuous realtime background clock display (JCLOCK) for VT100+ terminals under VMS."
Info-Vax Digest, May 7, 1987.Kriegsman, Mark and Alex Powers

InfoMotions, September 26, 1995. and portingDoctorow, Cory

Boing Boing, October 4, 2005. open-source software for 30 years. He founded and ran pioneering software companies, including Document.com, later acquired by Merrill, and Clearway Technologies,Kriegsman's resume
/ref> acquired by Mirror Image Internet. After college, Kriegsman worked for Cognitive Systems, Inc. (started by notable AI researcher

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), developing large scale rule-based, statistical, and text-processing AI systems. He later integrated those three technologies in a paper he wrote for

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.Kriegsman, Mark and Ralph Barletta
"Building a Case-Based Help Desk Application."
'' IEEE Expert'' 1993. Designing document management systems at

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led him to found his first startup, Document.com. After founding Clearway, Kriegsman was a senior developer at

@stake ATstake, Inc. was a computer security professional services company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 1999 by Battery Ventures (Tom Crotty, Sunil Dhaliwal, and Scott Tobin) and Ted Julian. Its initial core team of techno ...

, which was later acquired by

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. Clearway created the FireSite"Clearway Ships FireSite 2.5, Delivers Bandwidth on Demand."
''

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,'' on January 20, 1999. Accessed April 14, 2011. web accelerator and

content delivery network A content delivery network, or content distribution network (CDN), is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. The goal is to provide high availability and performance by distributing the service spatially re ...

, and the early WebArcher internet search tool."WebArcher 1.5."
MacNews, August 26, 1998. In late 1998, Clearway was involved in an early ad-blocking controversy. Its release of the ad blocking web software AdScreen"Clearway Releases New 'AdScreen' Filter"
MacNews, December 1998. 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.
CNET News, December 1998. 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.Davis, Jim

CNET News, October 23, 1998. He is also, however, interested in both secure information sharingMeyeroff, Wendy J
"Got It? Share it."
Healthcare Informatics, November 1998. and the open-access movement,Suber, Peter
"A Verb for the Act of Providing Open Access."
SPARC Open Access Newsletter, April 2010. and has been an outspoken skeptic of what he sees as shady business practices in the computer industry.Derk, James S

Deseret News, August 21, 1996.

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.'Meyer, Lucy. "Are Computers Taking the Place of Yule Sleds and Bicycles?" ''Summit Herald'', Summit, NJ, December 13, 1979, p.14. 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."The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers
last accessed April 14, 2011. He graduated from

Hampshire College Hampshire College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was opened in 1970 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges ...

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

. 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."Floyd S. Fierman papers
ca. 1850–1997 (bulk: 1870 – 1970)," Arizona State University Archives. Last accessed April 14, 2011. He lives in Massachusetts with his child Ness.

Patents

Kriegsman holds the following patents: Patents concerning Content Delivery Networks and Systems:

1999 * [http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=4&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=Kriegsman.INNM.&OS=IN/Kriegsman&RS=IN/Kriegsman US Patent 6,370,580], 2002
US Patent 6,480,893
2002

2005 Patent concerning dynamic web page assembly and caching:

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 Expert'' 8:6, 1993.

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