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- Where did you grow up?
- I was born in New York City, lived on Long Island until I was four years old, then my parents moved to Westchester County, north of New York City.
- Tell us about your family.
- I am married to Patricia and we have two dogs — an evil one named Willow and a good dog named Molly. I have a son who is 38 and a daughter, 32.
- How do you spend your time when you're not working?
- I make music and I hang out with my family.
- In addition to being a Gartner analyst, you are a well-known harmonica player and you also compose music. When did that start?
- When I was 15 years old, I was in a rock-and-roll band called The Mushroom Uprising, stuck in the back playing electric keyboards. The guys playing guitar up front were having all the fun, so I figured I had to get out front and get some fun in my life.
- How did you do that?
- I figured I'd pick up a horn of some sort, but then I heard Paul Butterfield. His album, East-West, had just been released and it was amazing — the harmonica really excited me, so I bought a harmonica. Then, when I was 17, I heard Charlie Musselwhite and that completely blew my mind. At that point I got serious about the harmonica.
- Who are your favorite musicians?
- I love The Police, The Beatles, Bruce Hornsby, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix. I listen to Hendrix all the time. I like a lot of different kinds of music. While I was in college, I played a lot of Bartok and listed to a lot of Beethoven.
- Do you have a favorite movie?
- I watch a lot of movies and I love a lot of movies. My favorite movie line is Frances McDormand in Darkman, when she says to the bad guy, "If you're not going to kill me now, I have things to do."
- What do you like most about your work at Gartner?
- I get to hang out with extremely clever people who are really interested in what they do for a living and in what's going on in the world. And I get to talk to those people about what they're thinking all the time. That's really pretty cool. It's like getting paid to hang out at dinner in college.
- How has IT personally changed your life?
- In amazing ways. As a musician, it has made it possible for me to create works that would have been flatly impossible in 1980. In 1984, I used my first personal computer, a Commodore 64, to make music, and since then IT has allowed me to realize complex works of music and to record them. It has also brought me a worldwide audience and opened up performance opportunities for me on three continents so far.
- What are you most proud of in your life?
- Becoming a Gartner Fellow, releasing my first CD of original compositions in 1994 and my 2002 book, World Without Secrets.
Note: To find out more about Richard Hunter's music, click here.
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Richard focuses on proliferation of technologies and its impact on relationships between enterprises and employees, customers and vendors, and government and society.
Topics he covers include:
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Issues of interest to CIOs such as Governance, funding and supply and demand-side issues |
Recent Accurate Predictions:
Incidents of "mass victimization" of Internet users will occur. The identity of the thief will remain unknown. The W32.Badtrans virus in 2003 is an example of a mass victimization attack.
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Enterprises will seek to shift their liability for security flaws in their products to software vendors
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Richard has been a key player in defining Gartner's Research agenda around security and privacy. Previously he covered Y2K preparedness, applications development and knowledge management.
Richard advises top level defense personnel such as the CIO of the CIA and defense organizations in Canada on security issues.
Richard is the author of "World Without Secrets," (2002) which describes the impact of technologies on the way we live and work. He is also co-author of Inside RAD (1994).
Richard recently received an award from the International Association of Privacy for his work on security and privacy.
Richard recently appeared as keynote speaker at the Compsec 2003 World Conference on Computer Security.
Working with the US Naval War College, Richard helped create 'Digital Pearl Harbor' an exercise that explored what cyber methods terrorists might use to attack critical infrastructure.
A world-class harmonica virtuoso, Richard is author of Jazz Harp regarded as the best the best book written on the art of playing the harmonica.
Prior to joining Gartner, Richard held various IT management positions at National Life of VT and John Hancock Financial Services.
Educated Harvard B.A. Music, cum laude, 1974 |
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