Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter
(AKA "Click and Hack, the type-it brothers")
of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Reprising their JavaOne talk entitled "Programming Puzzlers."
Time: 6:30 p.m. Refreshments; 7:00 p.m. Speaker
Location: Hewlett Packard, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room.
Slides: Programming Puzzlers (in Microsoft PPT format)
Free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is only $10/year.
This is a great opportunity to hear Josh Bloch's JavaOne conference talk. On
June 19th Josh Bloch will reprise his, with Neal Gafter, JavaOne talk entitled
"Programming Puzzlers." This talk "sold out" at JavaOne, filling up the hall and
two overflow rooms. Don't miss it!
Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter (AKA "Click and Hack, the type-it brothers") will
present ten programming puzzles for your entertainment and enlightenment. The
game show format will keep you on your toes while the puzzles teach you about
the subtleties of the Java programming language and its core libraries.
Anyone with a working knowledge of the language will be able to understand the
puzzles, but even the most seasoned veterans will be challenged. The lessons you
take from this session will be directly applicable to your programs and designs.
Some of the jokes may even be funny.
Josh is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he is an architect in the Core Java Platform Group. He designed and implemented the award-winning Java Collections Framework and the java.math package, and contributed to many other parts of the platform. Joshua is the author of numerous articles and papers. His Ph.D. thesis on the replication of abstract data objects was nominated for the ACM Distinguished Doctoral Disstertation Award. He holds a B.S. from Columbia University and a PH.D from Carnegie-Melon University. Josh is the acclaimed author of the "Effective Java Programming Language Guide" See also Joshua Bloch at sun.com.
Neal Gafter is a Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he is responsible for maintenance and development of javac (Sun's Java language compiler), the prototype Java "Generics" compiler, and other core Java development tools (javah, javadoc, and javamake). Previously, he developed a Java VM that provides orthogonal persistence, and led Sun's C++ compiler development group. He has held engineering positions at Microtec Research, Texas Instruments, and Xerox. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Rochester and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University. Homepage at: http://www.gafter.com/~neal/