Profile: Gilad Bracha
Gilad Bracha is a software engineer, a co-author of the second and third editions of the Java Language Specification,1) a major contributor to the second edition of the Java Virtual Machine Specification,2) and the creator of the Newspeak programming language. From 1997 to 2006, he worked at Sun Microsystems as Computational Theologist and, as of 2005, Distinguished Engineer, on various aspects of the specification and implementation of Java.3) Following that, he was Distinguished Engineer at Cadence Design Systems from 2006 to 2009, where he led a team of developers designing and implementing Newspeak. Between 1994 and 1997, he worked on the Smalltalk system developed by Animorphic Systems, a company that was bought by Sun in 1997. Bracha received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah.4)