InformationWeek on Change Agents

InformationWeek identifies 8 folks who in different ways have influenced technology or its deployment - not household names (ok, other than last one) - but kudos to the magazine for identifying what Tom Peters would describe as "mavericks"

Scott Kveton, of Open Source Lab at Oregon State
Dr. Blake Caldwell who does "biosurveillance" at the Center for Disease Control
Mile Lynn, now at Juniper, who was sued by Cisco for his work around flaws in their security
Dianah Neff, CIO of City of Philadelphia, for her pioneering municipal WI-FI effort
Bruce Perens, for his efforts to protect open source code from patent challenges
Robert Scoble, the Microsoft blogger with a cult like following
Rep Lamar Smith, from Texas for his work on patent reform
Peter Drucker