Doug Lea

Dennis de Champeaux is an independent consultant assisting software development organizations in making the shift to object-oriented methods. He was previously software project manager and scientist at HP Labs.

Doug Lea is one of the foremost experts on object-oriented technology and software reuse. He has been doing collaborative research with Sun Labs for more than five years. Lea is Professor of Computer Science at SUNY Oswego, Co-director of the Software Engineering Lab at the New York Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications, and Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Syracuse University. In addition, he co-authored the book, Object-Oriented System Development (Addison-Wesley, 1993). He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire.

Penelope Faure is president of Faure, Inc., a software engineering consulting firm.