| Geoffrey Charles Fox | Geoffrey Charles Fox obtained
his Undergraduate and Graduate degrees at Cambridge Univesity. Most
of his professional career has been spent at Caltech(Physics) and
Syracuse University (Physics/Computer Science). Fox is an expert in
the use of parallel architectures and the development of concurrent
algorithmsand is involved in development of prototype high performance
Java and Fortran compilers and their runtime support. His group has
pioneered use of CORBA and Java for both collaboration and distributed
computing. Fox is a proponent for the development of computational
science and its follow on "Internetics" as an academic discipline and
a scientific method. He has offered this curricula using collaborative
learning technology in distance courses. See: http://www.npac.syr.edu Java based Computation: http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/javaforcse For education: http://www.webwisdom.org |
| Li Gong | Li Gong is Java Security Architect and a Distinguished Engineer at the Java Software division of Sun Microsystems, Inc, where he manages the security and networking group. He is an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Information and System Security and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Computer Security. He served as Program Chair of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, and the IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge, England. |
| Mark Hapner | Mark Hapner is a staff engineer experienced in the Enterprise JavaBeans API and the Java Message Service API. Mark worked on a variety of leading software projects in Sun in the last 7 years. Among them are the Object Oriented Database and Object Services. Prior to Sun, he has worked on OS and pattern matching algorithms. Mark has BS in Engineering and MS in Urban Planning from Florida State University. |
| Douglas Tait | Douglas Tait received his B.S. in Computer Sciences from Temple University and his M.S. in Computer Architecture and Network Design from the University of Pennsylvania. His computer experience includes companies such as Unisys, Telesciences, General Electric and Martin Marietta. He spent several years developing device drivers for SS7 protocol stacks and eventually became the program manager for AIN projects at MCI and Sprint. At Sun he continues the AIN work with Sun's SS7 partners by pulling together solutions on Sun platforms. |
| Lew Tucker | Lew Tucker is Director of Developer Relations
at Sun Microsystems, Inc. where he is responsible for market
development of third-party Java application software. In this
capacity, he is a frequent speaker on the evolution of Java and its
role in emerging markets.
Prior to joining Sun, Lew was Director of Advanced Development at Thinking Machines Corporation where he contributed to the development of software for the massively parallel Connection Machine System. Before entering computer science, he was an Assistant Professor of Neurobiology at Cornell University Medical College. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science and is the author of numerous papers on artificial intelligence, parallel processing and computer architecture. |
| Jim Waldo | Jim Waldo is a Senior Staff Engineer with Sun Microsystems, where he has led a variety of projects having to do with reliable distributed systems in Sun Labs, JavaSoft, and corporate research. Prior to joining Sun, Jim worked at Apollo Computer (later Hewlett Packard) where he was responsible for the development of the first Object Request Broker. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is an adjunct faculty member of the department of computer science at Harvard University. |