JAVA PROGRAMMING WITH CORBA, 2E

About the Authors

Dr. Andreas Vogel is a Principal Consultant with Visigenic Software/ Borland International since January 1997. In this position he works with customers, mostly Fortune 500 companies, on CORBA solutions for their distributed computing needs.

Prior to this appointment, Andreas worked at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC) in Brisbane, Australia in the position of a Principal Research Scientist. Among other activities at the DSTC, Andreas lead CORBAnet, OMG's Internet-accessible ORB-interoperability showcase, and co-authered OMG's Object Trader specification, worked on CORBA-DCE interoperability, Web and middleware integration and distributed multimedia systems. From 1993 to 1994, he worked as a Research Scientist for the University of Montreal, Canada on quality of service issues of multimedia applications.

Andreas is Java Report Online's CORBA columnist and is a contributor to the Middleware Spectra. He also serves in program committees and advisory boards of a number of international conferences, workshops and journals devoted to different aspects of distributing computing. His research results and experience reports have been published in over 30 articles in international conferences, workshops and journals. Andreas holds a PhD and MSc in Computer Science from the Humboldt-University at Berlin, Germany.

Andreas lives with wife Dorit G. Hillmann and daughter Meta J. Hillmann in San Francisco. When not being at customer sites, he enjoys the 23 miles commute to the San Mateo office on his bicycle and, if time permits, competes in races around the Bay Area.

Keith Duddy is a Senior Research Scientist with the Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC). He is the leader of DSTC's CORBA Services project, and manager of the CORBAnet interoperability showcase. He been involved in the submission of several standards to the OMG, including the Trading Service, Notification Service and Meta-Object Facility.

Keith completed an honours degree in Computer Science at the University of Queensland in 1989. He has worked in the Australian and European computer industries as a Unix operating systems and network programmer. His experience includes training of technical support staff and technical marketing. He has also worked at the University of Queensland on a research project in specification of real-time systems.

He enjoys taking and printing black and white photographs, red wine, trash TV and cultural criticism. He will accept any opportunities to travel to places where he can practice his bad German (or any other language for that matter), but lives quite happily in inner Brisbane, a country town of about 1.2 million residents. He lives in a flat with long-term flat-mate Kathleen (bigk) Williamson, a few hundred meters from his partner of eight years, and fellow research scientist, Tim Mansfield.

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