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He works in Modena, Italy, where he lives with his girlfriend, Marina. vii 177_LEGO_Java_FM.qxd 4/3/02 1:09 PM Page viii Jamie Waldinger (SCJP) is a developer at Viant Corporation in Boston, where he develops Web-enabled systems for a global client base. He has coded in Java for three years, and holds a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Massachusetts. Jamie wishes to dedicate his portion of this book to his beautiful fiancée, Rory, and also both her and his loving parents for their endless support. Jürgen Stuber is one of the administrators of the leJOS project and one of the few people who have worked on the internals of leJOS. Jürgen has made important contributions to the leJOS virtual machine, in particular fixes that made rotation sensors usable and that improved the speed of the main instruction loop. Jürgen holds a doctorate from the University of Saarbrücken, Germany. He is currently working as an INRIA postdoc- toral fellow at the LORIA Research Institute for Computer Science in Nancy, France. His main research interests are theorem proving and term rewriting. Mick Porter (SSJCP,MCP) is a Senior Technical Architect for Logica, a global systems integrator. Mick specializes in the design and implementa- tion of wireless and mobile commerce systems.With 15 years of experi- ence in the IT industry, Mick has worked on an enormous variety of systems and projects, and over the last few years, he has delivered a number of major e-commerce systems.
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