After ~50 years as a professional, Clem Cole is a now retired HPC Computer Architect formally at Intel, who led an international team of engineers in multiple time zones developing supercomputers and associated technologies. He was a founder of 5 different startup companies. He has degrees in EE, Math & CS from CMU and UCB. He is one of the early UNIX/Internet developers, including helping to write one of the original TCP/IP implementations in the late 1970’s. He is also known as one of the authors of the precursor to IM, the UNIX talk program, and other more humorous and notorious hacks. He is honored to be the past President of the USENIX Association and to be the 2016 winner of the Linus Pauling Prize for Science.