ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITOR

JOSEPH M. NEWCOMER received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Since then, he has been faculty at CMU, done a high-tech compiler startup, been one of the founding scientists at the Software Engineering Institute at CMU, and been an independent software developer. He has been a Microsoft MVP in the C/C++/MFC area for 16 years. He is co-author of two books on Microsoft Windows programming, Win32 Programming (with Brent Rector, Addison-Wesley, 1997) and Developing Windows NT Device Drivers (with Ed Dekker, Addison-Wesley, 1999). He is one of the pioneers in desktop publishing and publish-from-database technolgy, in the early 1970s.