Brian Goetz
Rocky Mountain Software Symposium
Denver · November 11 - 13, 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
Garbage Collection in the HotSpot JVM
Pop quiz: which is faster, Java or C++? If you are talking about allocation performance, the answer is Java, hands-down.
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.