James Gosling
James Gosling received a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada in 1977. He received a
PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983. The title of
his thesis was "The Algebraic Manipulation of
Constraints". He is currently a VP & Fellow
at Sun Microsystems. He has built
satellite data acquisition systems, a
multiprocessor version of Unix, several compilers,
mail systems and window managers. He has also
built a WYSIWYG text editor, a constraint based
drawing editor and a text editor called `Emacs'
for Unix systems. At Sun his early activity was
as lead engineer of the NeWS window system.
He did the original design of the
Java programming
language and implemented its original compiler
and virtual machine. He has recently been a
contributor to the Real-Time Specification for Java, and most recently was a researcher at Sun labs where his primary interest was software development tools. He is now the Chief Technology Officer of Sun's Developer Products group.
Ludovic Champenois
Ludovic Champenois (ludo) is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems since 1996, working in between the Application Server (J2EE) organization and the Java tools organization. He is currently the chief architect for the J2EE developer support effort in the NetBeans open source project (http://j2ee.netbeans.org). This project is used as the foundation for other tools like Sun Java Creator and Sun Java Studio.
Didier Girard
- Docteur en informatique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Prévision de séries temporelles par techniques locales d'apprentissage (postscript)
- Architecte J2EE
- Gère une équipe de 20 experts techniques J2EE/Java, s'appuie sur 3 leaders
- Créateur du site
portail java/J2EE www.application-servers.com
- Membre de l'OSS Java Paris,
groupe informel de personnes actives dans le domaine de l'open source
- 40 conférences
animées depuis 2000.
- Interview d'acteurs importants
de l'informatique : Bill Gates (Microsoft), Mike Milinkovich (president Fondation
Eclipse), Francois Letellier (Responsable ObjectWeb), Craig McClanahan (Fondation Apache), Brian Behlendorf (co-fondateur du projet
Apache, membre du board Mozilla), Jim Hugunin (créateur du
projet IronPython)
- 50 citations dans la presse
informatique (01 informatique, Le monde informatique, Décision Micro,...), rédaction de nombreux articles pour
Développeur Référence et 01
informatique
Tugdual Grall
Tugdual Grall is a principal member of technical staff for Java EE and
Web services. Tugdual joined Oracle in January 1999 initially with
Oracle France in consulting, and since April 2002, he has worked with
Oracle Application Server product management and development. His
current areas of focus include J2EE and web services with Oracle
Containers for J2EE (OC4J). Tugdual has gained extensive development
and project management experience with the Oracle development tools
and the underlying architecture, working on a number of internet
application development projects. Before joining Oracle, Tugdual
worked for Union Technologies Informatique, a consulting company, and
Cerium—KPMG's subsidiary company- a business software editor. Tugdual
has been speaker in various conferences, and maintains an active blog
at http://blog.grallandco.com.
Romain Guy
Romain Guy is a French student currently working as an intern with the Swing Team at Sun Microsystems. He has 7 years of experience in Java development, as an Open Source and freelance developer. He also works as a freelance journalist for a French computing magazine, as a translator for O'Reilly and taugh Java in a University. Today Romain focuses on UI design and humane interaction.
Liz Kiener
Friendship brought Liz Kiener to the JCP, and people are what keeps her here. Years ago at Sony, Liz provided technical support and trade show support, later becoming logistics manager. She also became friends with "a very good program manager." Liz's friend later joined Sun Microsystems and met Susan Roach, who was the entire PMO staff at that time. Liz took the effort to integrate the community personally. She says, "I made it my mission to treat all spec leads in the same manner, no matter where they come from, which company they work for, or whether they are individuals. Sun spec leads don't get preferential treatment. I became the program manager who managed every part of the public stages for all outside-led JSRs." Her empathy for those formerly considered "outsiders" stems in part from her own status as a European raised all over the continent, now living in the United States. Besides training, Liz has a few other responsibilities these days. As JSR program manager, she posts all the new JSRs on the website. She also works with the Executive Committee (EC) as an interface between the EC and spec leads.
Guillaume Laforge
Après diverses expériences chez des éditeurs de solutions de CRM et
d'EAI, ainsi que quelque temps passé auprès d'une grande société de
services,
Guillaume Laforge a rejoint OCTO Technology, un cabinet de conseil en
architecture des systèmes d'information et spécialisé dans les nouvelles
technologies, en tant qu'architecte logiciel.
En parallèle à cette carrière professionelle, Guillaume a participé,
contribué et pris en main la destinée du projet Open Source Groovy : un
nouveau langage de script dynamique pour la plateforme Java.
Au travers de cette activité au sein du monde du Libre, Guillaume rédige
des articles sur son projet et participe également à des conférences
internationales comme JavaOne où il a présenté une session sur le thème
de la simplification des développements d'entreprise au travers de
l'utilisation du scripting.
Max Lanfranconi
Massimo Lanfranconi, known as Max, has never missed a JavaOne conference. He started working with Java technology soon after attending the very first one held in 1996. He had been scouting out new technologies for the research and development team of the Information Technology department of a bank in Italy, Banca Popolare di Bergamo, which was the largest finance customer of Sun Microsystems Italy. The targeted technologies were to make life easier for the 300 or so developers who were writing highly customized client-server applications for the bank. He says, "The bulk of code was in C, C++, and SQL, and I remember that at the meeting Java gave me a feeling like Belushi in Blues Brothers when he 'saw the light.' Back in those years, the focus was just on applets, but the excitement was really huge."
Java technologies have evolved since his first epiphany, and Max's enthusiasm has kept pace. By 1998, Max had joined Sun Microsystems Italy, and in 2001 he moved to a new Sun position in the United States. He says, "On the Java ME side, everything excites me. I can see and use new improvements every time I get a new cell phone, which is about every year, and I really enjoy exploiting every single CPU cycle out of my phone. On the Java EE side, I am very interested in JSR 220 Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 from the developer perspective. Although I have not been coding for a few years, I am still very sensitive to these kinds of topics." Jini technology intrigues him, too, and he looks forward to seeing its full potential unfold over time.
Eric Mahé
Eric Mahé est responsable des nouvelles technologies au sein de l'équipe marketing de Sun France qu'il a rejoint en 1989 après avoir occupé différents postes de chef de projet dans le domaine du nucléaire et de la défense. Son rôle est d'évangéliser les choix technologiques et stratégiques de Sun auprès des communautés concernées par le langage Java, les développements du Logiciel Libre et les applications citoyennes de la fédération d'identité basées sur le projet Liberty Alliance. Diplômé de plusieurs troisième cycle en marketing, biologie et informatique, Eric Mahé est vice-président du Club des Utilisateurs en France et professeur de communication à l'université René Descartes – Paris V.
Vincent Massol
I have 2 hats :
- One as Technical Director of Pivolis - This is my day time job.
- One as an avid fan of open source, participating to several projects (see below) - night time passion.
I have been working for Octo Technology from 1998 to 2002, first as an architecture consultant and technical coach and then as Managing Director of the UK branch. In february 2003, I created Pivolis, a company specialized in collaborative offshore software development using Agile methodologies (AOSD = Agile Offshore Software Development).
I'm really interested in anything that can make computer development a better "science", i.e. that helps the software engineering discipline. As a consequence, I've been researching and participating in the following areas over the past few years:
- Development methodologies and especially applying agile methodologies in the field.
- Tools / frameworks, especially in the domain of Builds, Tests and generally quality control.
The goal of Pivolis being a Pivotal Provider for offshore software development (using Agile Methodologies and collaborative development), I am able to apply on the field (during the day) the technologies and tools I am researching (at night)!
Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine
Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine is a Software & Java Architect and a software ambassador working for Sun Microsystems in Paris, France. He holds a Master of Science from SJSU, California and focuses on rich clients, server-side Java and development tools. He also serves as a technical reviewer for Java and XML books and has translated Joshua Bloch's "Effective Java" into French. Alexis also tries to be a good blog citizen at http://blogs.sun.com/alexismp !
Thibaut Régnier
Thibaut Régnier is the Secretary General of the French Java User Group : Club-Java. He currently works for EUROFIL assurance.
He holds an Engineering degree in Computer Science from the Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM), France. As a member of the Board of the French Java User Group, he is a regular speaker on technical Java events in France.
