Doug Lea is a professor of Computer Science at the State University of
New York at Oswego. He is author of the book ``Concurrent Programming
in Java'', and co-author of the text ``Object-Oriented System
Development''. He is the author of several widely used software
packages and components, as well as articles, reports, and
standardization efforts dealing with object oriented software
development including those on specification, design and
implementation techniques, distributed, concurrent, and parallel
object systems, and software reusability.