Phil Lapsley (b. 1965) is an electrical engineer, hacker, and entrepreneur. Lapsley attended the University of California, Berkeley in the 1980s, graduating with a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science in 1988 and 1991. While there he became involved in the Berkeley UNIX project and co-founded the EXperimental Computing Facility, where he was involved in defending against the Internet Worm in 1988. Lapsley co-authored RFC 977, Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), an Internet standard for transmission of USENET news articles, and was the primary developer of the NNTP reference implementation, nntpd. After leaving Berkeley he co-founded Berkeley Design Technology, Inc., a digital signal processing technology advisory firm, and is the author of a book on DSP processors. He later co-founded SmartTouch, a biometric financial transaction processing company. Lapsley holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and works at McKinsey & Company as a management consultant. An engineers degree is an academic degree which is intermediate in rank between a masters degree and a doctorate; it is occasionally to be encountered in the United States in technical fields. ... Hacker is a term used to describe people proficient in computers. ... Look up Entrepreneur on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Entrepreneur is a loanword from the French language that refers to a person who undertakes and operates a new venture, and assumes some accountability for the inherent risks. ... University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, University of California, UC Berkeley, UCB, or simply Berkeley) is a public coeducational university situated in Berkeley, California, USA to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate. ... A student organization at UC Berkeley founded in 1988 by Phil Lapsley. ... A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program, similar to a computer virus. ... The Network News Transport Protocol or NNTP is an Internet application protocol used primarily for reading and posting Usenet articles, as well as transferring news among servers. ... Usenet is a distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP network of the same name. ... Digital signal processing (DSP) is the study of signals in a digital representation and the processing methods of these signals. ... At Disney World, biometric measurements are taken of the fingers of multi-day pass users to ensure that the pass is used by the same person from day to day. ... Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a tertiary degree in business management. ... The Sloan School of Management, one of the five schools of MIT, is one of the worlds leading business schools. ... McKinsey & Company is a privately owned management consulting firm that focuses on solving issues of concern to senior management in large corporations and organizations. ... Management consulting is the process of helping companies to improve or transform themselves. ...