ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Ken Arnold has loitered around the computing field for decades, including attending Berkeley where he worked on the BSD project, creating the curses library and helping on rogue; writing the "The C Advisor" column for Unix Review (later "The C++ Advisor" as progress led us down the garden path); coauthoring The Java Programming Language and other books; designing JavaSpaces and helping design Jini; and occasionally (as shown here) pretending to be hip by blogging. His current dalliances include the human factors of programming languages and APIs, electronic voting systems your mother could trust, and the Napkin pluggable look and feel for Java that makes provisional GUIs look, well, provisional.

Leon Bambrick is a prolific ...

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