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Who | Company | What they do |
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Dick Baldwin | Austin Community College | Writes scores of Java tutorials. |
Mike Cowlishaw | IBM | Father of Rexx and NetRexx. General purpose genius. |
David Flanagan | O'Reilly Books | Author of the classic Java In A Nutshell (ISBN: 1-56592-262-X standard or 1-56592-304-9 deluxe with CD containing related books) |
Dion Gillard | Multitask Consulting | Vegemite eater from Down Under; known to appear in public in white pyjamas with white polka dots. Documented the undocumented Sun classes. SCID advocate. Bloody genius. |
James Gosling | Sun | Father of Java |
Roedy Green | Canadian Mind Products | Maintains the Java glossary you are now reading; Java futurist. Father of Abundance. |
Marty Hall | Johns Hopkins University | Author of Core Web Programming (ISBN: 0-13-625666-X), pretty well the only book on using CGI and client-side Java together. He is probably the clearest writer on Java. Marty has posted all the source code examples from the book for anyone to use. These contain updates and errata fixes you don't get on the CD-ROM that comes with the book. Marty also maintains a set of Links to Java resources. |
Dave Harris | B H Research | Accurate, fair, knowlegeable. |
David Holmes | Macquarie University | expert on threads. |
Arthur van Hoff | Sun | Father of the AWT, Marimba and Bongo, and author of great chunks of the JDK and Hooked on Java (ISBN: 0-201-48837-X). |
Bill Joy | Sun | Creator of Jini. Author of The Java Language Specification (Java Series) (ISBN:0-201-63451-1). |
Matt Kennel | University of California San Diego | Scholar who adds light and removes heat from Java debates. |
Donald Knuth | Stanford University | His Art Of Computer Programming (ISBN: 0-201-48541-9) volumes 1, 2 and 3 are the reference works for standard algorithms. See Knuth, Donald. |
Wayne Kovsky | Colorado Software Summit | Organises the Colorado Java Software summit each Winter in the mountains of Colorado. |
Peter van der Linden | Sun | Maintains the most up to date Java FAQ. Author of Just Java 1.2 (ISBN: 0-13-010534-1). |
Peter Mehlitz | Transvirtual | Developed the first lightweight widget AWT system for BISS. |
Bertrand Meyer | Interactive Software Engineering | Father of programming by contract and Eiffel. Author of the classic text Object-Oriented Software Construction (ISBN: 0-13-629155-4) |
Jan Newmarch | Canberra University | Expert on events. |
David Pollack | Athena | Developed the first collaborative spreadsheet, Integer. |
Jonathan Revusky | Crystalline Solutions | Designer of SmartJ. Advocate for more streamlined, user-friendly, computer tools. |
Patricia Shanahan | ACM | Patiently, completely and accurately answers hundreds of newbie questions each month. |
Bill Wilkinson | Chilsoft | Entertaining discoverer and documenter of gotchas in Java, particularly involving serialisation. |
Tim Wilkinson | Transvirtual | Father of Kaffe, a cleanroom JVM implementation. Original designer and developer of the Java SmartCard. |
Niklaus Wirth | ETH | Father of Pascal, Modula, Oberon, Euler ... Advocate of lean languages that compile and execute quickly. |
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