| Burton Harvey | Burton Harvey is a software development consultant for Oakwood Systems Group, a Microsoft Partner company specializing in Internet solutions. An MCSD with fifteen years' experience using Microsoft development tools, Burt enjoys teaching others how to program and architecting software that elegantly fulfills clients' needs. In 1998, Burt founded the online journal of scientific research, Scientia. His areas of interest include compiler theory, UML, and the object-oriented paradigm. His Master's thesis, "The Outlaw Method for Solving Multimodal Functions with Parallel Genetic Algorithms", was presented at the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation. |
| Julian Templeman | Julian has been a programmer for just over thirty years, and still enjoys it. He started as a real programmer, and so is pleased to see that Fortran may have a place in the .NET world. He spends most of his time running a training and consultancy company in London, mainly on Java, C++, and COM, and writes articles and books on programming topics. |
| Karli Watson | Karli Watson is an in-house author for Wrox Press with a penchant for multicolored clothing. He started out with the intention of becoming a world famous nanotechnologist, so perhaps one day you might recognize his name as he receives a Nobel Prize. For now, though, Karli's computing interests include all things mobile, and upcoming technologies such as C#. He can often be found preaching about these technologies at conferences, as well as after hours in drinking establishments. Karli is also a snowboarding enthusiast, and wishes he had a cat. |
| Simon Robinson | Simon Robinson lives in Lancaster in the UK, where he shares a house with some students. He first encountered serious programming when he was doing his PhD in physics, modeling all sorts of weird things to do with superconductors and quantum mechanics. The experience of programming was nearly enough to put him off computers for life (though, oddly, he seems to have survived all the quantum mechanics), and he tried for a while being a sports massage therapist instead. But he then realized how much money was in computers compared to sports massage, and rapidly got a job as a C++ programmer/researcher instead. Simon is clearly the charitable, deep, spiritual type, who understands the true meaning of life. His programming work eventually lead him into writing, and he now makes a living mostly from writing great books for programmers. He is also an honorary research associate at Lancaster University, where he does research in computational fluid dynamics with the environmental science department. You can visit Simon's web site at http://www.SimonRobinson.com |
