About the Authors

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Vishal Layka is the chief technology officer of Star Protocol and has over a decade experience in JVM languages. Vishal is actively involved in machine learning, inferential statistics, and pattern recognition using R, Python, Mahout, and Spark. When he needs a break from technology, Vishal reads eclectically from calculus to star formation.

David Pollak has been writing commercial software since 1977. He wrote the award-winning Mesa spreadsheet, which in 1992 was the first real-time spreadsheet. Wall Street companies traded billions of dollars a day through Mesa. In 1996, David sold his company to CMP Media and became CTO of ...

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