Daniel Baker
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Daniel Baker is the CEO
of FlightAware
, a real time flight tracking and status company. He originally became known in the 1990s
as a principal of distributed.net
, which pioneered Internet distributed computing
. Baker was the head of the systems department at NeoSoft, the first Internet provider in Texas
during the mid to late 1990s. He was a founder and Vice President of Superconnect, an enterprise cable
/telecom monitoring software company.
He was also the founder of the I Travel, You Travel community and network, although it was sold to a social networking company for an undisclosed sum in 2006.
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...
of FlightAware
FlightAware
FlightAware is an aviation software and data services company. Based in Houston, Texas, it is best known for the flightaware.com web site, the first to offer free flight tracking of both private and commercial aircraft in the United States...
, a real time flight tracking and status company. He originally became known in the 1990s
1990s
File:1990s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: The Hubble Space Telescope floats in space after it was taken up in 1990; American F-16s and F-15s fly over burning oil fields and the USA Lexie in Operation Desert Storm, also known as the 1991 Gulf War; The signing of the Oslo Accords on...
as a principal of distributed.net
Distributed.net
distributed.net is a worldwide distributed computing effort that is attempting to solve large scale problems using otherwise idle CPU or GPU time. It is officially recognized as a non-profit organization under U.S...
, which pioneered Internet distributed computing
Distributed computing
Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal...
. Baker was the head of the systems department at NeoSoft, the first Internet provider in Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
during the mid to late 1990s. He was a founder and Vice President of Superconnect, an enterprise cable
Cable television
Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...
/telecom monitoring software company.
Other projects
Daniel Baker was the author for Macmillan Computer Publishing.He was also the founder of the I Travel, You Travel community and network, although it was sold to a social networking company for an undisclosed sum in 2006.
External links
- FlightAware Executive Profiles: Daniel Baker
- FlightAware
- I Travel, You Travel
- Superconnect