Joshua Bloch

Abstract

Now Chief Java Architect at Google, Bloch previously was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he led the design and implementation of the Java Collections Framework introduced in Java 2 and was involved in the design of several language additions in the Java 5 release. He has a BS from Columbia University and a PhD from Carnegie-Mellon University, where he worked on the Camelot distributed transaction processing system, which later became Encina, a product of Transarc, where he was a Senior Systems Designer. He wrote the 2001 Jolt Award-winning book Effective Java and coauthored Java Puzzlers and Java Concurrency in Practice.

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