Sharing is broken today. To share today, we have to get our friends to join some social network, share according to the rules of that network, while giving up ownership of our data. Why can’t we just share anything we want with any group of friends, directly from our phones to theirs, without worrying about creepy ads? Omlet is an open platform, being rolled out on mobile devices, that makes personal sharing simple, pure, and easy.

Monica Lam has been a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University since 1988. She is the Faculty Director of the Stanford MobiSocial Computing Laboratory. She has worked in the areas of architecture, compiler optimization, software analysis to improve security, mobile and social computing. She received a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1987. Lam is an ACM Fellow, received an NSF Young Investigator award in 1992, and has won a range of best paper awards from the ACM. She is a co-author of the “dragon book”, the most popular textbook in compilers. She is also the founding CEO of Omlet, a Stanford spinoff to create an open social platform.