Peter Biddle

Biddle joined Microsoft in 1990 as a Support Engineer. He was one of the first authors to describe the concept of darknet,{{cite journal |title= The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution |journal= ACM Digital Rights Management Workshop |author1= Peter Biddle |author2= Paul England |author3= Marcus Peinado |author4= Bryan Willman |name-list-style= amp |year= 2003 |publisher= Microsoft Corporation |url= http://msl1.mit.edu/ESD10/docs/darknet5.pdf |doi= 10.1007/10941270_23 |access-date= March 26, 2011 |archive-date= July 17, 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120717020917/http://msl1.mit.edu/ESD10/docs/darknet5.pdf |url-status= live }} an early participant in the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), Copy Protection Technical Working Group, and Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, an early technical evangelist for DVD and digital video recorder technology, the founding leader of Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (code named Palladium) initiative,{{cite web|url=http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/7/9/17842/90350|title=TCPA and Palladium: Sony Inside -- kuro5hin.org|publisher=|access-date=2007-05-17|archive-date=2007-05-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070518120626/http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/7/9/17842/90350|url-status=live}} and was responsible for starting Microsoft's Hypervisor development efforts.{{cite news|url=http://download.intel.com/newsroom/kits/softwaremediaday/2011/Intel_Peter-Biddle.pdf|title=Intel Corporation: Speaker Bio|access-date=2017-04-13|agency=Intel PR|date=2011|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304113529/http://download.intel.com/newsroom/kits/softwaremediaday/2011/Intel_Peter-Biddle.pdf|url-status=live}}

Biddle built and led the engineering team that shipped BitLocker Drive Encryption,{{cite web|url=https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/peter-biddle-enterprise-social-networking-ready-for-lift-off/|title=Peter Biddle: Enterprise social networking ready for lift-off|author=Larry Dignan|work=ZDNet}} a Trusted Platform Module-rooted disk encryption for Windows Vista. Bitlocker continues to be used by Microsoft today, having been shipped with certain versions of Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2008 and later.{{cite web|title=Bitlocker Drive Encryption|url=http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/bitlocker|website=Microsoft|access-date=26 April 2015|archive-date=30 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150430101453/http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/bitlocker|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Bitlocker Drive Encryption (Windows 8)|url=http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/bitlocker-drive-encryption|website=Microsoft|access-date=26 April 2015|archive-date=29 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150429090625/http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/bitlocker-drive-encryption|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Bitlocker Drive Encryption (Windows Server)|url=https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731549(v=ws.10).aspx|website=Microsoft| date=18 September 2012 |access-date=26 April 2015}}

In 1998, Biddle publicly demonstrated real-time consumer digital video recorder functionality using an inexpensive MPEG2 hardware encoder, at the WinHEC conference during a speech by Bill Gates.{{cite web |title= Bill Gates Speech Transcript - WinHec '98 |website= Microsoft |date= March 26, 1998 |location= Orlando, Florida |url= http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/speeches/1998/winhec3-26-98.aspx |access-date= March 26, 2011 |archive-date= September 9, 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100909062344/http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/speeches/1998/winhec3-26-98.aspx |url-status= live }} Biddle was the author{{cite web|title=SDMI I Content Flow and Usage|url=http://www.slideshare.net/Flashdomain/secure-digital-music-initiative-sdmi-overview|website=Slideshare|access-date=26 April 2015|ref=Slide 9|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062526/http://www.slideshare.net/Flashdomain/secure-digital-music-initiative-sdmi-overview|url-status=live}} of the diagram on page 13{{citation |url=http://ntrg.cs.tcd.ie/undergrad/4ba2.01/group10/port_device_spec_part1.pdf#page=13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171127163501/http://ntrg.cs.tcd.ie/undergrad/4ba2.01/group10/port_device_spec_part1.pdf#page=13 |archive-date=Nov 27, 2017 |id=Doc No pdwg99070802 |page=13 |title=SDMI Portable Device Specification - Part 1 - Version 1.0

|date=July 8, 1999}} in the SDMI specification, which enabled the playback of unknown or unlicensed content on SDMI-compliant players, and was a vocal proponent within SDMI for the external validation of digital watermarking.{{cite web|last1=Manjoo|first1=Farhad|title=Can we trust Microsoft's Palladium?|url=http://www.salon.com/2002/07/11/palladium/|work=Salon|date=11 July 2002|access-date=26 April 2015}}

On August 8, 2007, London-based company Trampoline Systems, a company exploring what they called The Enterprise 2.0 space{{cite web|last1=Tyler|first1=Richard|title=Microsoft star jumps at Trampoline job|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/2814449/Microsoft-star-jumps-at-Trampoline-job.html|publisher=The Telegraph|access-date=24 April 2015|archive-date=16 April 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250416053434/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/2814449/Microsoft-star-jumps-at-Trampoline-job.html|url-status=live}} announced Biddle would be moving to London to join them as Vice President of Development after leaving Microsoft.{{cite news |title=Microsoft hotshot Peter Biddle joins London's Trampoline Systems |author=Charles Armstrong |date=August 8, 2007 |url=http://www.trampolinesystems.com/microsoft-hotshot-peter-biddle-joins-london%e2%80%99s-trampoline-systems/trampo-news |access-date=March 25, 2011 }} While at Trampoline, Biddle ran all product development and engineering efforts.

In 2008, Biddle joined Intel Corporation as a director of the Google program office. During his tenure at Intel, he also served in other positions, including evangelist and General Manager of Intel's AppUp digital storefront, which was shuttered in 2014{{cite web|title=Frequently Asked Questions - AppUp|url=https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/intelappup/faq/|publisher=Intel Corporation|access-date=24 April 2015|archive-date=18 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150918230830/https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/intelappup/faq/|url-status=live}} after four years' operation, Director of the Intel Atom Developer Program,{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} described as "...a framework for developers to create and sell software applications for netbooks with support for handhelds and smart phones available in the future",{{cite news|title=Intel Atom Processor Developer Program for Mobile Devices to Spur New Wave of Applications|url=http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/2009/20090922comp_a.htm|access-date=26 April 2015|work=Intel News Release|date=Sep 22, 2009|archive-date=7 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141207082449/http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/2009/20090922comp_a.htm|url-status=live}} and General Manager of Intel's Cloud Services Platform.{{cite news|title=Intel Sees Humans as the Ultimate Mobile Platform|url=http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2013/09/12/intel-sees-humans-as-the-ultimate-mobile-platform|access-date=26 April 2015|work=Intel Newsroom|date=Sep 12, 2013|archive-date=9 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909083849/http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2013/09/12/intel-sees-humans-as-the-ultimate-mobile-platform|url-status=live}}

In 2009 he became a surprise witness in the RealNetworks, Inc. v. DVD Copy Control Association, Inc. case where, as one of the drafters of the CSS license, he served as an expert on certain CSS licensing issues at the heart of the case.{{cite news |title=RealDVD case: Real introduces surprise witness |date=May 20, 2009 |author=Greg Sandoval |work=CNet news |url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10246213-93.html |access-date=March 26, 2011 |archive-date=August 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120801073527/http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10246213-93.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web|last1=Sandoval|first1=Kelly|title=At RealDVD hearing, MPAA says copying DVDs never legal|url=http://www.cnet.com/news/at-realdvd-hearing-mpaa-says-copying-dvds-never-legal/#!|website=CNET|access-date=24 April 2015|archive-date=22 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150222045636/http://www.cnet.com/news/at-realdvd-hearing-mpaa-says-copying-dvds-never-legal/#!|url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=Declaration of Peter Biddle in support of plaintiffs |work=RealNetworks, Inc. and RealNetworks Home Entertainment, Inc.'s Opposition to Motion for Preliminary Injunction |date=May 26, 2009 |url=http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/california/candce/3:2008cv04548/207693/387/0.pdf |access-date=March 26, 2011 |archive-date=August 9, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809190401/http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/california/candce/3:2008cv04548/207693/387/0.pdf |url-status=live }}

For more than 3 years{{cite news|title=Articles Tagged MashUp|url=http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/tags#/?tags=mashup_radio|access-date=26 April 2015|agency=Intel PR|publisher=Intel|archive-date=11 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150411044753/http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/tags#/?tags=mashup_radio|url-status=live}} during Biddle's tenure at Intel, he hosted the podcast "MashUp Radio",{{cite news |title=Chip Shot: Atom Mashing Radio at CES on Jan. 7 |date=January 4, 2011 |author=Suzy Ramirez |work=Intel Newsroom |url=http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/01/04/chip-shot-atom-mashing-radio-at-ces-on-jan-7/ |access-date=March 26, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110311194338/http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/01/04/chip-shot-atom-mashing-radio-at-ces-on-jan-7 |archive-date=March 11, 2011 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |title=Mashup Radio |work=Blog talk radio |url=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mashup-radio |access-date=March 26, 2011 |archive-date=April 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110411061201/http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mashup-radio |url-status=live }} an online publication sponsored by Intel.

In 2014, Biddle founded TradLabs, a company that designed new hardware intended to make outdoor sports safer and more accessible.{{cite web|title=TradLabs|url=http://www.tradlabs.com/|access-date=April 23, 2015|archive-date=February 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204063530/http://www.tradlabs.com/|url-status=live}}

Biddle became CIO of Modica Microindustries in 2019. Modica builds interconnected systems for micromanufacturing and houses their systems in re-purposed and re-built metal shipping containers. In 2021, Modica was accepted into the STANLEY + Techstars accelerator program focused on AI in advanced manufacturing.{{cite web|publisher=Geekwire|url=https://www.geekwire.com/2021/seattle-startup-modica-turns-shipping-containers-software-driven-microfactories/|title=Seattle startup Modica turns shipping containers into software-driven microfactories|date=May 2, 201|access-date=2024-01-16|archive-date=2024-01-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240116033146/https://www.geekwire.com/2021/seattle-startup-modica-turns-shipping-containers-software-driven-microfactories/|url-status=live}} The company billed itself as "building a self healing and self organizing factory-as-a-service platform for deployment anywhere on earth and (eventually) in space."{{cite web|title=Modica Industries|url=https://madebymodica.com/|access-date=June 7, 2021|archive-date=May 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502191942/https://madebymodica.com/|url-status=live}}

Biddle is a member of the Biddle family of Philadelphia and is a descendant of Nicholas Biddle, whose name he bears as his middle name. Other notable Biddles include Charles Biddle, Vice President of Pennsylvania and Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans an American heiress and philanthropist.

{{reflist}}

• [http://www.ted.com/pages/intel_peter_biddle Plucky rebels: Being agile in an un-agile place - Peter Biddle at TED@Intel]
• [http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mashup-radio Mobile Insights Radio with Peter Biddle]
• [http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-law/213 Twit.tv - This week in Law 213]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vrVtEQ3HHg The Darknet & the Future of Everything* - Keynote Address Gov 2.0 L.A.]
• [http://www.tradlabs.com Tradlabs]

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