Technical Advisory Board

James Gosling, Ph.D.

James Gosling received a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Calgary, Canada in 1977. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983. The title of his thesis was "The Algebraic Manipulation of Constraints." He is currently a VP and Fellow at Sun Microsystems. He has built satellite data acquisition systems, a multiprocessor version of Unix®, several compilers, mail systems and window managers. He has also built a WYSIWYG text editor, a constraint-based drawing editor, and a text editor called 'Emacs' for Unix® systems. At Sun his early activity was as lead engineer of the NeWS window system. He did the original design of the Java programming language and implemented its original compiler and virtual machine. He has recently been a contributor to the real-time specification for Java. He is currently a researcher at Sun Labs where his primary interest is software development tools.

Jim Mitchell, Ph.D.

Dr. Mitchell is a Sun Fellow and in charge of Sun Laboratories. Prior to this, he was chief technology officer, Java Consumer and Embedded. Before this, Dr. Mitchell was in charge of technology and architecture in the Java software division. Prior to his involvement with Java technology, Dr. Mitchell was in charge of the Spring distributed, object-oriented operating system research in Sun Laboratories and SunSoft. Before joining Sun in 1988, Dr. Mitchell was head of research and development for Acorn Computers (U.K.), where the ARM RISC chip was designed, and president of the Acorn Research Center in Palo Alto, California. In 1980-81 he was senior visiting fellow at the Cambridge University computing laboratory. From 1971-84 he was at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and was a Xerox Fellow.

Rajeev Motwani, Ph.D.

Rajeev Motwani is a professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he also serves as the director of graduate studies. He obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from Berkeley in 1988. His research has spanned a diverse set of areas in computer science, including databases and data mining, web search and information retrieval, robotics, computational drug design, and theoretical computer science. He has written two books -- Randomized Algorithms published by Cambridge University Press in 1995, and an undergraduate textbook published by Addison-Wesley in 2001. Motwani has received the Godel Prize, the Okawa Foundation Research Award, the Arthur Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the Bergmann Memorial Award from the US-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation, and an IBM Faculty Award. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and serves on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal on Computing, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Motwani serves on various industry boards and advisory boards, including Google. He is a charter member of TIE (The IndUS Entrepreneurs) and on the board of BASES (Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students).

Robert Binder

Mr. Binder is CEO and co-founder of mVerify Corporation, which offers advanced model-based mobile test automation. Based on Binder’s test design patterns and patent-pending mobility technology, mVerify’s system works like "A Million Users in a Box."® Binder is internationally recognized as a software test expert and author of the definitive “Testing Object-Oriented Systems: Models, Patterns, and Tools. He holds an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a BA and MBA from the University of Chicago. Binder is an IEEE senior member and is Conference Chair for the 20th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2005).