About Me

Lewis ShepherdI’m the Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft’s Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments.

I like to write about society, government, and technology. I’m a fairly fuzzy technologist, with an early career in political science both academic and practical – I’ve worked at all levels of government, most recently as a senior executive in the federal government but earlier for the mayors of several major American cities.

I’ve always been an early adopter of information technologies, and moved to Palo Alto in 1984, spending the next two decades working in and around Silicon Valley. After the 9/11 attacks, I focused on technologies to support the Intelligence Community. In 2003 I accepted an offer to work directly inside the community, becoming Senior Technology Officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency. I spent four years participating in a remarkable period of innovation and reform for the intelligence community. Some of our best work focused on information sharing, better analysis, and Web 2.0 capabilities; my group did early work on well-known projects like Intellipedia and A-Space.

Email me at lewis.shepherd@live.com.

 [Note: The opinions expressed on all my entries are my own, not necessarily those of any federal agency or of Microsoft.  I think we're all happy that way.]

6 Responses

  1. olgalednichenko, on October 22nd, 2008 at 2:39 pm Said:

    Hi Lewis,

    You’ve got a great blog. I heard about you from Rick and I know someone who knows reshma too..

    Good job… Keep it up

    Cheers
    Olga Lednichenko

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  2. Clint Reilly, on January 2nd, 2009 at 6:34 pm Said:

    Lewis – Thank God I lost …none of this would have happened to you ….. Clint

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  3. DorobekInsider: 9/11 remembrances… and 9/11 hopes « DorobekInsider.com, on September 11th, 2009 at 10:50 am Said:

    [...] embarrassing and abundantly unimportant. And many people decided that government work mattered. Lewis Shepherd, who worked for the intelligence communities and now is the CTO of Microsoft Institute for Advanced [...]

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  4. skaheru, on September 13th, 2009 at 4:03 am Said:

    Hi,
    Just found you on Twitter and see you’re into Uganda! Good site and blog.

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  5. Social Networking: Why is the CIA interested? | Network Administrator | TechRepublic.com, on October 21st, 2009 at 6:37 am Said:

    [...] Lewis Shepard, formerly with the Defense Intelligence Agency told Mr. Shachtman why the ability to monitor so many languages is necessary: [...]

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  6. Arnold23, on October 22nd, 2009 at 8:41 pm Said:

    And, if we have a 50 year mission, all of Mozilla needs to be looking over the horizon in this way. ,

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