About the Author
Robert Hanmer is a director of The Hillside Group, an organization whose mission is to improve quality of life for everyone who uses, builds, and encounters software systems. The Hillside Group also sponsors Pattern Languages of Programming (PLoP) software pattern conferences. Bob is active in the software pattern community and has been program chair at pattern conferences in the United States and overseas.
He is a consulting member of technical staff with Alcatel-Lucent near Chicago. Within Alcatel-Lucent, Lucent Technologies, and Bell Laboratories (same office, new company names), he is involved in development and architecture of embedded systems, focusing especially on the areas of reliability and performance. Previously, he designed interactive graphics systems used by medical researchers.
Bob is the author of Patterns for Fault Tolerant Software (Wiley) and has written or co-written 14 journal articles and several book chapters. He is a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery, a member of the Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy, and a member of the IEEE Computer Society. He received his BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
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