Jeff Harrow, Principal at The Harrow Group and The Harrow Technology Report, has been the chief technologist for the corporate strategy groups of both Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation. He began his IT career at a large aerospace company where he designed and implemented the first color-graphic executive information system, and then led the transition from a batch-oriented mainframe administrative computing environment to a 1,000+ terminal interactive distributed computing environment. He joined Digital to implement the first network planning and installation business in its southern region, and later moved into the services organization to work on network and network management products and services.

Harrow invented and implemented the first iconic network management prototype for DECnet networks, and he now works with many businesses and industry groups to help them better understand the strategic implications of our contemporary and future computing environments.

As the author and editor of the Web-based multimedia technology journal and webcast originally known as the Rapidly Changing Face of Computing. Harrow has shared his fascination with technology, and his sense of wonder at the innovations and trends of contemporary computing and the technologies that drive them, with people across the globe for more than eighteen years.

Harrow is co-author of The Disappearance of Telecommunications, published by IEEE Press. His perspectives on technology have been featured in newspaper, magazine, and online articles such as Discover, NanoMagazine, and Fast Company. He has served as a expert on technology futures for TV programs, such as the History Channel's "Modern Marvels."

Harrow has numerous patents issued and on file in the areas of network management and user interface technology, and he is a commercial pilot. He brings these and other technological interests together to help people "look beyond the comfortable and obvious," so that they don't become road-kill by the side of the Information Highway.