Dana Moore is a division scientist with BBN Technologies and
is an acknowledged expert in the fields of peer-to-peer and
collaborative computing, software agent frameworks, and assistive
environments. Prior to joining BBN, Dana was chief scientist for
Roku Technologies and a distinguished member of technical staff at
Bell Laboratories. Dana is a popular conference speaker and a
university lecturer. He has written articles for numerous computing
publications and coauthored the books
Peer-to-Peer: Building
Secure, Scalable, and Manageable Networks; Jabber Developer’s
Handbook; and
Rich Internet Applications. Dana holds a
Master of Science degree from the University of Maryland and a
Bachelor of Science degree in industrial design, also from the
University of Maryland.
Raymond Budd is a software engineer with BBN
Technologies. He has designed, developed, and supported a variety
of web applications and other distributed systems in Java, Ruby,
and Python. He has been published in several conference proceedings
such as the Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence and journals including Applied
Intelligence. Additional areas of interest include knowledge
representations, knowledge engineering, and distributed planning
and scheduling. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in
computer science from the University of Pittsburgh.
William Wright is a senior principal investigator with
SPARTA, where he develops networking software for systems
distributed across the globe. His interests include real-time
embedded systems, software architecture for reuse, and software
agent frameworks. A frequent conference speaker, William has also
written for Dr. Dobb’s Journal, Java
Developer’s Journal, and Embedded Systems
Programming, among others. He coauthored the books Jabber
Developer’s Handbook and Beginning Java
Networking. William holds a Master of Science degree in
computer science from George Mason University and a Bachelor of
Music degree in education from Indiana University.