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Jonathan
Allin (lead author)
Jonathan
is Symbian's Java Technology Manager and lead author of this book. He is one of
a number of people in Symbian whose role it is to ensure that Symbian provides
a first-class Java platform for wireless information devices. He initiated Symbian's
Wireless Java technology training program and is the author of the Java chapter
in Professional Symbian Programming.
Jonathan has a BSc in
Electronics from Southampton University in the UK, and a DSc in Biomedical Engineering
from the Technion in Israel. His first job was as a residential social worker
with severely disabled children, which migrated into designing and building electronic
and computerized aids for such children. He was with Acorn Computers for eight
years, helping to develop computers and software for schools and picking up an
MBA on the way. Prior to joining Symbian he worked for Origin BV for three years,
where he first became interested in Java technology, particularly in the role
that it can play within the enterprise. Interview
with Jonathan Allin
Colin
Turfus
Colin
graduated from the University of Dundee, Scotland with a BSc (Hons) in maths and
physics, and from the University of Cambridge with a PhD in applied mathematics.
He has researched and lectured at universities in the UK and in S. Korea, publishing
papers in fluid dynamics and computational astrophysics. He has a strong personal
interest in theories of chaos and self-organizing systems. He became interested
in Java programming while developing intranet-based math-teaching resources and
lecturing about Internet technology in S. Korea.
He joined Symbian shortly
after its inception in the summer of 1998, at first building up the C++ developer
support service, then doing the same thing for Java, following the release of
Symbian's Java Runtime in May 1999. He has since been involved with Jonathan Allin
in setting up Symbian's Wireless Java technology training program, focusing on
the use of Java Native Interface programming to achieve Symbian look-and-feel
for Java applications and on the use of the JavaPhone Datagram and PIM packages.
Alan
Robinson
Alan
graduated from Cambridge University, UK, with a BA in literature and philosophy.
Having become interested in applying logic to fuzzy domains, he pursued his technical
leanings, and took a Computing MSc at Middlesex University.
His first
job was working on developer kits for a fax server software company. When one
of the company founders formed a start-up to produce an innovative platform for
messaging middleware, he quickly joined the new company. He spent some exciting
but stressful years learning that the stories people tell about start-ups are
true, but also saw the opposite end of business when contracted to work with IBM
on its MQSeries product. When RedBox's money ran out, he joined the recently created
Symbian, and has worked mostly on SDK documentation and examples in the messaging
and comms areas. Most recently, he managed Symbian's Java documentation for the
Version 6.0 SDKs.
Lucy
Sweet
Lucy
is the youngest member of the Java Team at Symbian, having worked in the department
since summer 2000. She is a graduate from Queen Mary College at the University
of London, UK, with a BEng in Biomedical Materials Science and Engineering. She
also has an MSc in IT, and wrote a thesis on Wireless Java Games at Symbian, before
joining the company as a permanent employee. She is establishing herself as one
of Symbian's wireless Java games experts, and aspires not only to be an international
author, but an international speaker too. She will be presenting at JavaOne
for the first time in 2001.
John
Bown
From
an early age, John was drawn to the world of electronics and embedded systems.
After studying for his degree in Computer Science, he chose to develop software
within the manufacturing industry.
Working on "in-product"
software, John adopted the ethos that the software must reflect the user's requirements.
With his belief that the most successful and usable software is that which works
the way people want it to, John joined Symbian to work with the quickly evolving
Symbian OS.
During his stint with the Symbian Developer Network, John
embraced Java as the ideal environment in which to leverage world-class applications
on the Symbian OS. Working with Symbian's Communicator reference design, John
was involved in software development, user training and bringing Java to a wider
audience.
Since writing the Crystal Communicator chapter, John has left
Symbian to take up a "couldn't refuse" offer of employment closer to
home. Now working as a software design engineer, he has not lost his belief that
Java has a tremendous future in the field of Wireless Information Devices.
 Digia
Oy
Simple
Conference, Chapter 12
Digia Oy is a wireless software company based in
Finland, developing software and value-added services for the next generation
Wireless Information Devices (WIDs), such as Smartphones and Communicators.
Jüergen
Bocklage
Jüergen
is a student in the final year of a degree of European Computer Science at the
University of Applied Sciences, Osnabrueck, Germany. Currently he is an exchange
student at the EVTEK Institute of Technologies, Espoo, Finland. Since November
1999 he has worked for Digia, where he has gained extensive knowledge about Symbian
OS C++ and Java technologies. His final year thesis is about Java for Wireless
Information Devices with a focus on Symbian OS technology.
His university
experience included Java, C/C++, TCL/TK, Python, SQL, and the challenge of teaching
object-oriented methods when programming with C to a group of C developers. When
he moved to Finland, he realized that mobile phones were not just for yuppies
and decided to become a professional Symbian developer. He is establishing himself
as a speaker and his most recent presentation was on '"Java for mobile devices
- hype and reality" at the Symbian Developer Expo in November 2000. He is
now training Digia customers in Symbian OS C++ and Java.
 Telenor
R&D
Handheld
Travel Assistant, Chapter 12
Telenor
is one of Norway's leading telecommunications companies. Telenor R&D is Norway's
largest research establishment within ICT (Information and Communication Technology).
Its long-term research comprises future communication networks and services together
with applications in various market arenas. Its activities help the Telenor Group
stay at the leading edge of telecoms innovation.
Tore
Urnes
Tore holds
an MSc in computer engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
and a PhD in computer science from York University in Toronto. Prior to joining
Telenor R&D in 1998, he spent many years researching software architecture
and programming language support for synchronous groupware applications, focusing
on how higher-level specifications can be mapped to efficient distributed implementations.
More recently, his research has focused on software infrastructure and applications
within the domains of smart environments and mobile computing. Right now, he enjoys
investigating how software infrastructure can simplify adapting to the dynamic
service landscapes of ad hoc wireless networks.
Sigrid
Steinholt Bygdås
Sigrid graduated from the University of Tromsø with an MSc in computer
engineering. During her study she became interested in object-oriented languages
and distributed systems. She joined Telenor R&D in 1992, and spent several
years researching development efficiency related to software development tools.
She took part in the development of a method for organization-dependent systems
planning before she returned to her main area of interest: software infrastructure
for distributed object-oriented systems. Since 1999 she has been experimenting
with Java applications on wireless devices, investigating software infrastructure
within the domains of context awareness and mobile computing.
Rune
Henning Johansen
Rune graduated from the University of Oslo in 1984 with an MSc in computer science.
His first job was working with Simula on a machine specially designed for this
language. He joined Telenor R&D in 1988. He has, among other things, participated
in the development of the first Tandberg videophone, developed a gateway for automatic
SMS services, and implemented Web, WAP, and SMS services for the
kitchen of the future. Right now he experiments with WAP and J2ME (MIDP) on
coming third-generation mobile phones
Øystein
Myhre
Øystein
studied mathematics at the University of Oslo. A computer science veteran, he
was involved in the implementation and development of the first object-oriented
language, Simula, at the Norwegian Computing Center and at the Norwegian Defense
Research Establishment. In the seventies, he played a central role in development
of the portable Simula system, a compiler development project with certain similarities
to today's Java virtual machine and runtime environment. He was a co-founder of
the company Simula a.s., which introduced Simula on a PC platform. He has been
involved in developing Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) systems at
Siemens and Telenor R&D using object-oriented techniques. When the Java language
entered the scene a few years ago, he quickly became a great fan of the platform.
He has always been fascinated by the challenge of putting seemingly large and
complicated software onto hardware that appears to be too limited for that task.
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