Brian Goetz
Salt Lake Software Symposium
Salt Lake City · August 19 - 20, 2005
Author of Java Concurrency in Practice
Brian Goetz has been a professional software developer for 20 years. He is the author of over 75 articles on software development, and his book, Java Concurrency In Practice, was published in May 2006 by Addison-Wesley. He serves on the JCP Expert Groups for JSRs 166 (concurrency utilities), 107 (caching), and 305 (annotations for safety analysis). He is a frequent presenter at JavaOne, OOPSLA, JavaPolis, SDWest, and the No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium Tour. Brian is a Sr. Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems.
Presentations
The Java Memory Model
What's the worst thing that can happen when you fail to synchronize in a concurrent Java program? Its probably worse than you think – modern shared-memory processors can do some pretty weird things when left to their own devices.
Structuring concurrent applications in JDK 5.0
JDK 5.0 is a huge step forward in developing concurrent Java classes and applications, providing a rich set of high-level concurrency building blocks.