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William R. Otte is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. His research focuses on middleware for distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems. He is currently involved in several aspects of developing a Deployment and Configuration Engine (DAnCE) for CORBA Components. This work involves investigation of techniques for runtime planning, and adaptation for component-based applications, as well as specification and enforcement of application quality-of-service and fault-tolerance requirements. Before joining as a graduate student, William worked for a year as a staff engineer at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems after graduating in 2005 with a B.S. in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University.
Andrew Patzer is the Director of the Bioinformatics Program at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Andrew has been a software developer for the past 15 years and has written several articles and books, including Professional Java Server Programming (Peer Information, Inc.) and JSP Examples and Best Practices (Apress). Andrew's current interest lies in the field of Bioinformatics, using dynamic languages such as Groovy to mine the enormous amounts of available biological data and help perform analysis for scientific researchers.
Charles Petzold is a freelance writer who specializes in Windows application programming. He is the author of Programming Windows (Microsoft Press), which in its five editions between 1988 and 1999 taught a generation of programmers about the Windows API. His most recent book is Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (Microsoft Press), and he is also author of a unique exploration into digital technologies entitled Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Microsoft Press). His web site is http://www.charlespetzold.com.
T. V. Raman specializes in web technologies and auditory user interfaces. In the early 1990s, he introduced the notion of audio formatting in his Ph.D. thesis entitled AsTeR: Audio System For Technical Readings, concerning a system that produced high-quality aural renderings of technical documents. Emacspeak is the result of applying these ideas to the broader domain of computer user interfaces. Raman is now a Research Scientist at Google, where he focuses on web applications.
Alberto Savoia is co-founder and CTO of Agitar Software. Before Agitar, he was Senior Director of Engineering at Google; prior to that he was the Director of Software Research at Sun Microsystems Laboratories. Alberto's passion and main body of work and research is in the area of software development technology—in particular, tools and technology to help programmers test and verify their own code during the design and development phase.
Douglas C. Schmidt is a Full Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department, Associate Chair of the Computer Science and Engineering program, and a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. He is an expert on distributed computing patterns and middleware frameworks and has published more than 350 technical papers and 9 books that cover a range of topics including high-performance communication software systems, parallel processing for high-speed