Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Drew University in Madison, NJ, USA. Author of Java For Dummies, Beginning Programming with Java For Dummies, Ruby on Rails For Dummies, and other books. Frequent contributor of articles to JavaBoutique.

Ph.D in Mathematics from the University of Illinois; MS in Computer Science from Rutgers University.

I'm a long-time alum of JavaOne. I'm interested in increasing the participation of (and the presence of) educators and authors at JavaOne.

For my Web page, visit http://www.burd.org