Breck Baldwin is the Founder and President of Alias-i/LingPipe. The company focuses on system building for customers, education for developers, and occasional forays into pure research. He has been building large-scale NLP systems since 1996. He enjoys telemark skiing and wrote DIY RC Airplanes from Scratch: The Brooklyn Aerodrome Bible for Hacking the Skies, McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics.