Peter Biddle

Software career

Biddle began at Microsoft in 1990 as a Support Engineer. He was among the first to describe the concept of darknet and participated early in the Secure Digital Music Initiative, Copy Protection Technical Working Group, and Trusted Computing Platform Alliance. He served as an early technical evangelist for DVD and digital video recorder technology, founded and led Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (code named Palladium) initiative, and started Microsoft's Hypervisor development efforts.

He built and led the engineering team that shipped BitLocker Drive Encryption, a Trusted Platform Module-rooted disk encryption for Windows Vista; BitLocker later shipped with certain versions of Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2008 and later. In 1998, Biddle demonstrated real-time consumer digital video recorder functionality using an inexpensive MPEG2 hardware encoder at the WinHEC conference during a speech by Bill Gates.

He authored the diagram on page 13 in the SDMI specification, which enabled playback of unknown or unlicensed content on SDMI-compliant players, and was a vocal proponent within SDMI for external validation of digital watermarking. On August 8, 2007, Trampoline Systems announced Biddle would move to London to join them as Vice President of Development after leaving Microsoft; there he ran all product development and engineering. In 2008, Biddle joined Intel as a director of the Google program office, later serving as evangelist and General Manager of Intel's AppUp digital storefront (shuttered in 2014), Director of the Intel Atom Developer Program, and General Manager of Intel's Cloud Services Platform.

In 2009 he became a surprise witness in RealNetworks, Inc. v. DVD Copy Control Association, Inc., serving as an expert on CSS licensing issues as one of the drafters of the CSS license. For more than three years during his Intel tenure, he hosted the podcast MashUp Radio, sponsored by Intel.

Industrial Design Career

Biddle launched TradLabs in 2014, creating hardware aimed at making outdoor sports safer and easier to access. By 2019, he was CIO at Modica Microindustries, which outfits repurposed shipping containers with linked micromanufacturing systems. Modica joined the STANLEY + Techstars accelerator in 2021, focusing on AI in advanced manufacturing.