Ron Goldman

Ron Goldman is a researcher working at Sun Microsystems Laboratories on alternative software development methodologies and new software architectures---based in part on biological systems, which are much more robust and flexible than software. He is currently a member of the Sun SPOT's project (https://spots.dev.java.net & http://www.sunspotworld.com) that is investigating the use of Java on small embedded, wireless devices. Ron was instrumental in defining the vision and details for the java.net website and helped start the Javapedia project. He has advised many Sun open source projects including OpenSolaris, NetBeans, OpenOffice, and Jini. He is the co-author of the book "Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy" published in April 2005 by Morgan Kaufmann.

Prior to Sun he developed a program to generate and manipulate visual representations of complex data for use by social scientists as part of a collaboration between NYNEX Science & Technology and the Institute for Research on Learning. He has a continuing interest in the design of programming languages and has developed various programming environments (IDEs). He has a PhD in computer science from Stanford University where he was a member of the robotics group.

Ron is the Sun-appointed member of the java.net Fairness Board and one of the initial project owners of the Javapedia project.

-- RonGoldman - 01 Nov 2007