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Jonathan A. Zdziarski
Areas of Expertise:
  • iPhone
  • spam
  • machine-learning
  • algorithmic theory
  • speaking

Biography

Jonathan Zdziarski is better known as the hacker "NerveGas" in the iPhone development community. He is well known for his work in cracking the iPhone and lead the effort to port the first open source applications. Hailed on many geek news sites for his accomplishments, Jonathan is best known for the first application to illustrate and take full advantage of the major iPhone APIs: NES.app, a portable Nintendo Entertainment System emulator.

Jonathan is also a full-time research scientist and longtime spam-fighter. He is founder of the DSPAM project, a high profile, next-generation spam filter that was acquired in 2006 by a company designing software accelerators. He lectures widely on the topic of spam and is a foremost researcher in the fields of machine-learning and algorithmic theory.

Jonathan's website is zdziarski.com.

Books

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Multimedia

Webcast: iPhone Forensics Demonstration
April 17, 2008
Download and watch a high-res video of this webcast (45 minutes | .mov file | 202 MB). With the iPhone quickly becoming the market leader in mobile devices, the need for law enforcement personnel to perform forensic analysis of these devices is...

Webcast: Getting the iPhone Open Source Tool Chain
April 03, 2008
Download and watch a high-res video of this webcast (45 minutes | .mov file | 211 MB). In this webcast, Jonathan A. Zdziarski, one of the original hackers of the iPhone and author of iPhone Open Application Development will demonstrate how you can...