J. Robert Brown

J. Robert Brown, a midwestern native, has been involved in computer problem solving for nearly 20 years. His introduction to the X-Window system came shortly after its release from MIT in the mid-1980s. This introduction turned to passion and has taken him to three continents and a dozen countries where he has instructed, developed, and debugged in C, C++, Java, X-Windows, Motif and system management. As a computer scientist for Los Alamos National Laboratory, he continues to work, travel, and write from his home in New Mexico. He can be reached at brownj@staff.juno.com.

Joel Goodling

J. Robert Brown started his career by pursuing a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering in the early 1980s. He moved to Europe in 1987. Here he worked until 1999 under contract to the Department of Defense as a field engineer who supported a variety of computer and software systems that were responsible for tasks ranging from collecting intelligence data to simulating war. While living abroad, he earned a bachelor of science degree in computer science from the European Division of the University of Maryland. In 1996, John was invited to join the technical staff of Los Alamos National Laboratory as a computer scientist. There he remained, until he recently joined the dot-com frenzy with Juno Online Services in New York. His book, X Window System Programming from Scratch, will be published this summer by Que Publishing.