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on occasion. He served as a CTO at NetReliance Inc. and sits on the board of advisors for Ascenium Corp. and Ontometrics. He is the Security Track co-chair and has authored nine books (including Holub on Patterns: Learning Design Patterns by Looking at Code, Taming Java Threads and Compiler Design in C) and 100+ magazine articles. Allen wrote for JavaWorld from 1998 to 2004, and is now a contributing editor for SD Times. He wrote the popular “OO Design Process” column for the IBM developerWorks Component Zone, was the technical editor of CMP Media’s Java Solutions. Allen teaches regularly for the University of California (Berkeley) Extension. Contact Allen at www.holub.com/allen.html. Juval Löwy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign (www.idesign.net), a company focused on .NET architecture consulting and advanced .NET training. Juval is a Microsoft Regional Director for the Silicon Valley, working with Microsoft on helping the industry adopt .NET. His latest book is Programming.NET Components, 2nd Edition (O’Reilly, 2005). Juval participates in the Microsoft internal design reviews for future versions of .NET. Juval published numerous articles, regarding almost every aspect of .NET development, and is a frequent presenter at development conferences. Microsoft recognized Juval as a Software Legend and one of the world’s top .NET experts and industry leaders. Gary McGraw, Cigital Inc.’s CTO, researches software security and sets technical vision in the area of software quality management. Dr. McGraw is co-author of five best-selling books: Exploiting Software (AddisonWesley, 2004), Building Secure Software (Addison-Wesley, 2001), Software Fault Injection (Wiley 1998), Securing Java (Wiley, 1999) and Java Security (Wiley, 1996). A noted authority on software and application security, Dr. McGraw consults with major software producers and consumers. He serves on Advisory Boards of Authentica, Counterpane, Fortify Software and Indigo Security, as well as advising the CS Department at UC Davis. Dr. McGraw holds a dual Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and Computer Science from Indiana University and a BA in Philosophy from UVA. He writes a monthly security column for Network Magazine, is the editor of Building Security In for IEEE Security & Privacy magazine, and is often quoted in national press articles. Dan Saks is the president of Saks & Associates, a training and consulting company specializing in C++. He is a contributing editor for Embedded Systems Programming (US) and a former member of the advisory board for C/C++ Users Journal. He has also written columns for the C++ Report, Software Development magazine and Windows Developer’s Journal. Dan is co-author of C++ Programming Guidelines and co-developer of Suite++: The Plum Hall Validation Suite for C++. He served for many years as secretary of the ANSI and ISO C++ standards committee, and continues to follow the committees’ activities. Paul Tyma is Chief Technical Officer of Home-Account, Inc. Paul is a frequent blogger and has written over 50 industry articles in places like JavaPro magazine, Dr. Dobb's Journal, Communications of the ACM, and the book the Java Primer Plus. He has spoken at the Software Development conferences for ten years and is currently the Java track chair. Paul also created and maintains the popular MailinatorTM and TalkinatorTM internet web services. In another life he worked at Google on the internals of their C++ and Java web servers. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University. He also has little to no hair, generally smells good, and looks particularly snazzy wearing green. He's also far more charming and way better looking than say, Jason Hunter. Ross Wheeler is serial entrepreneur having been involved in technology startups since 1985. He is currently Founder/CEO of Paravirtual, a leader in Embedded Supersystem Virtualization. He previously founded and led RouterWare, the leading network protocol supplier with over 300 networking infrastructure customers, until its acquisition by Wind River Systems, Inc. in 1999. Following the acquisition, he continued as CTO with the Networking Business unit. His prior experience includes positions in software engineering with Fibermux, NewGen Systems, Gateway Communications, and Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. Mr. Wheeler holds a BSCS and BS Computer Engineering from Trinity University. Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, president of WirfsBrock Associates, is a world-renowned innovator in practical object analysis and design techniques. She is lead author of Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities and Collaborations (Addison-Wesley 2003), and invented the set of development practices known as Responsibility-Driven Design. Most recently, she has focused on ways to effectively communicate design ideas, ways to be a thoughtful agile designer, designing flexible software without over- or under-engineering a solution, and effective ways to consider design alternatives. Among her widely used innovations are use case conversations and object role stereotypes. Register Today at SDExpo.com 3 http://www.holub.com/allen.html http://www.idesign.net http://www.Programming.NET http://www.SDExpo.com

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