Who is Daedelus?

1. Daedelus (also Daedalos or Daedalus) was a most skillful artificer of Ancient Greece. Know as the inventor of images. After an unfortunate incident with King Minos' young wife, Pasiphae and a wooden (or in some version wickerwork) cow, he was made to build the labyrinth in which the resulting Minotaur was kept. Daedelus was then shut up in a tower.
   
   Daedelus could not leave the island by sea, as the king kept strict watch on all the vessels, and permitted none to sail without being carefully searched. Since Minos controlled the land and sea routes, Daedelus set to work to fabricate wings for himself and his young son Icarus. He tied feathers together beginning with the smallest and adding larger, so as to form an increasing surface. The larger ones he secured with thread and the smaller with wax, and gave the whole a gentle curvature like the wings of a bird. When at last the work was done, the artist, waving his wings, found himself buoyed upward and hung suspended, poising himself on the beaten air. He next equipped his son in the same manner, and taught him how to fly. When both were prepared for flight, Daedelus warned Icarus not to fly too high, because the heat of the sun would melt the wax, nor too low because the sea foam would make the wings wet and they would no longer fly. Then the father and son flew away.
   
   They had passed Samos, Delos and Lebynthos when the boy began to soar upward as if to reach heaven. The blazing sun softened the wax which held the feathers together, and they came off. Icarus fell into the sea. His father cried and bitterly lamenting his own arts, called the land near the place where Icarus fell into the ocean Icaria in memory of his child. Daedelus arrived safe in Sicily in the care of King Cocalus, where he built a temple to Apollo, and hung up his wings, an offering to the god.
    
2. A regular contributor to a number of Internet Fora and discussion groups as well as an article contributor to wikipedia.org   e.g.
   1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management
   2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_XJ
   3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator
   4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
   5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_cloning
   6. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rover
   7. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric_Lightning
3. Founder and director of the DREADCO corporation.
4. "His study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in
   a public library."