Martin Fowler is a famous author and international speaker on software architecture, specializing in object-oriented analysis and design, UML, Patterns, and agile software development methodologies, including Extreme Programming. Martin Fowler started working with software in the early 80's and has written five popular books on the topic of software development (see "Publications"). In March 2000, he became Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks, …

Barbara Liskov (born Barbara Huberman, 1939), is a prominent computer scientist. She is currently the Ford Professor of Engineering in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her BA in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1961, and became the first woman in the United States to be awarded a PhD in Computer Science, in 1968 from Stanford University.

In 1986, Peter Coad founded Object International, a software consulting firm where he served as President. During the 1990s Coad co-authored six books on the analysis, design, and programming of object-oriented software. During this time Coad became famous through his work on the Coad/Yourdon method for Object-oriented analysis (OOA) which he had developed together with Edward Yourdon.

Edward Nash Yourdon (born 1944) is a computer consultant, an author and lecturer, and a recognized pioneer in the software engineering methodology of structured programming. He is a graduate of MIT, earning an SB in Mathematics in 1965. The December 1999 issue of "Crosstalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering," named Yourdon one of the ten most influential people in the software field. In June 1997, he was inducted into the Computer Hall of Fame, …

Karl J. Lieberherr is a Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University, in Boston. He is known as the father of adaptive programming. He did his studies at ETH Zurich, obtaining an M.S. in 1973 and a Ph.D. in 1977. He wrote the first book about adaptive programming. The work on this theme was one of several secondary influences on the development of aspect-oriented programming. Adaptive programming tries to create applications that are easy to maintain and evolve, …

Zhiming Liu, born in Hebei Privince, China, is a computer scientist. He studied Mathematics in an unknown University in China and got his first degree in 1982. He then did his master degree in Computer Science at the Institute of Software, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), under the supervision of Prof. Zhou Chaochen in 1986-1988. He then went to the University of Warwick (UK) to work as a research fellow, …

Massimo Magrini was born in Lucca (Tuscany) in 1966. He earned a degree in Computer Science from Pisa University, with a thesis on musical applications of the Object Oriented paradigm. He collaborated with CNUCE/CNR (an Institute of the National Research Council in Pisa) for some years, building hardware and software for computer music performances. With these special devices, he performed in several festivals in Italy and foreign countries (Spain, Greece, Cuba, …

Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr. is a pioneer of object-oriented computer programming and the principal architect, designer and implementor of five generations of Smalltalk environments. He designed the bytecoded virtual machine that made Smalltalk practical in 1976. He also invented Bit blit, the general-purpose graphical operation that underlies most bitmap graphics systems today, and pop-up menus.

David Lorge Parnas (born February 10, 1941) is an early pioneer of software engineering who developed the concept of module design which is the foundation of object oriented programming today. He is also noted for his advocacy of technical realism.

David Morgan-Mar (aka DangerMouse) is a Ph.D. graduate from the University of Sydney, Australia, best known online for two webcomics, "Irregular Webcomic!" and "Infinity on 30 Credits a Day", and for creating several humorous esoteric programming languages. He is also the author of several GURPS roleplaying sourcebooks for Steve Jackson Games, as well as a regular contributor to "Pyramid" magazine. He works as an optical engineer at Canon.

Joseph Brant Arseneau (born 3 September 1967) is mainly known in finance for the development of the Renewable Energy Derivative, which is a structured product that securitizes renewable energy into property-based debt obligations backed by the cash flows of excess energy. Thus providing a responsible use of the environment to finance properties in third world countries.

Rockford Lhotka is an author and columnist who writes on topics concerning Microsoft-centric programming with an emphasis on object oriented design strategies. He is a Microsoft regional director, a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, and an INETA speaker. He also writes for MSDN Online. Lhotka is the principal technology evangelist for Magenic Technologies, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

Trygve Mikkjel Heyerdahl Reenskaug (born 1930) is a Norwegian computer scientist. He formulated the model-view-controller pattern for GUI software design in 1979, while visiting Xerox Parc. By his own admission "The hardest part was to hit upon good names for the different architectural components. Model-View-Editor was the first set". He has been extensively involved in research in object oriented methods, and developed the OOram role modeling method and tool in 1983.

A senior Java Developer and Project Manager, with consolidated experience in building distributed application. Serious about agile processes and methods, expecially about refactoring, TDD and AR-testing.

Rob Pettit has 20 years of experience in the software development industry and is an internationally recognized expert in the field of software design for object-oriented real-time and concurrent systems. In his current position as Sr. Project Leader, Dr. Pettit provides technical leadership and research direction for the Office of Software Modeling and Analysis (OSMA), which he helped to found in 2006.