Carla Guillen has a Master's degree in Computational Science and Engineering and is working at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. She is currently pursuing a PhD in monitoring performance of supercomputers in the field of Computer Architecture Organization. As part of the annual courses offered at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, she has been teaching a course on the use of the Eclipse IDE with the CDT and Photran plug-in for the past 4 years.

Jeff MAURY is currently working as the technical lead for the Java team at SYSPERTEC, a French ISV offering mainframe integration tools. He is also a PMC member for the Apache MINA project.

Prior to SYSPERTEC, he co-founded a French ISV called SCORT in 1996, which was the precursor of the application server concept and offered J2EE-based integration tools.

He started his career in 1988 at MARBEN, a French integration company specializing in telecommunication protocols. At MARBEN, he started as a software developer and finished as an X.400 team technical lead and Internet division strategist.

Peter Rice is a retired professor of Mathematics and has been active in IT consulting for the past 20 years. He is a certified trainer for IBM and Microsoft, and has worked through independent training vendors offering courses in programming languages (Java, C, C++, Perl, and so on), advanced systems (Eclipse, Eclipse Plug-in Development, Rich Client Platform, and Java EE), and various other technologies. He has also been consulted with on many projects and is currently working with Trail Management Systems on the development of a new generation of business management software.