ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gastón has been researching parallel programming, multiprocessor, and multicore since 1997. He has 14 years of experience designing and developing diverse types of complex parallelized solutions that take advantage of multicore with C# and .NET Framework. He has been working with Parallel Extensions since the first Community Technology Preview (CTP). He is heavily involved with consulting, training, and development on the .NET platform, focusing on creating efficient software for modern hardware. He regularly speaks on software development at conferences all over the world. In 2009, he was awarded an Intel® Black Belt Software Developer award.
Gastón has written four books in English, contributed chapters to two other books, and has written more than 40 books in Spanish. He contributes to Dr Dobb's at www.drdobbs.com and Dr. Dobb's Go Parallel programming portal at www.ddj.com/go-parallel/, and is a guest blogger at Intel Software Network (http://software.intel.com).
He has worked as a developer, architect, and project manager for many companies in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Now, he is an independent IT consultant working for several American, German, Spanish, and Latin American companies, and a freelance author. He is always looking for new adventures around the world.
He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his son, Kevin. When not tinkering with computers, he enjoys developing ...
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