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Christopher Seiwald is the author of Perforce (a software configuration management system), Jam (a build tool), and "The Seven Pillars of Pretty Code" (a paper from which Chapter 32, Code in Motion, draws ideas). Prior to founding Perforce, he managed the network development group at Ingres Corporation, where he toiled for years to make asynchronous networking code look palatable. He is currently the CEO of Perforce Software, and still has his hand in coding.
Diomidis Spinellis is an Associate Professor at the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece. His research interests include software engineering tools, programming languages, and computer security. He holds an M.Eng. in Software Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, both from Imperial College London. He has published more than 100 technical papers in the areas of software engineering, information security, and ubiquitous computing. He has also written the two Open Source Perspective books: Code Reading (Software Development Productivity Award 2004), and Code Quality (both Addison-Wesley). He is a member of the IEEE Software editorial board, authoring the regular "Tools of the Trade" column. Diomidis is a FreeBSD committer and the author of a number of open source software packages, libraries, and tools.
Lincoln Stein is an M.D./Ph.D. who works on biological data integration and visualization. After his training at Harvard Medical School, he worked at the Whitehead Institute/ MIT Center for Genome Research, where he developed the databases used for the mouse and human genome maps. At Cold Spring Harbor he works on a variety of genome-scale databases including WormBase, the database of the C. elegans genome; Gramene, a comparative genome-mapping database for rice and other monocots; the International Hap-Map Project Database; and a human biological pathways database called Reactome. Lincoln is also author of the books How to Set Up and Maintain a Web Site (Addison-Wesley), Network Programming in Perl (Addison-Wesley), Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm (Wiley), and Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C (O'Reilly).
Nevin Thompson translated Yukihiro Matsumoto's Chapter 29, Treating Code As an Essay, from the Japanese. His clients include Japan's largest television network, as well as Technorati Japan and Creative Commons.
Henry S. Warren, Jr. has had a 45-year career with IBM, spanning from the IBM 704 to the PowerPC. He has worked on various military command and control systems, and on the SETL project under Jack Schwartz at New York University. Since 1973, he has been with IBM's Research Division, focusing on compilers and computer architectures. Hank currently works on the Blue Gene petaflop computer project. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Courant Institute at New York University. He is the author of Hacker's Delight (Addison-Wesley).
Laura Wingerd formed her early opinions of software configuration management during a decade of wrangling builds and source code for the Sybase and Ingres database products. She joined Perforce Software in its first year and has since acquired quite a bit of SCM expertise from the very Perforce customers she purports to advise. She is the author of Practical Perforce (O'Reilly) and a number of SCM-related whitepapers; The Flow of Change, a Google Tech Talk, marks her video debut. Laura is currently Vice President of Product Technology at Perforce