Doug Lea

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Doug Lea is a professor of computer science at State University of New York at Oswego where he specializes in concurrent programming. He is on the Executive Committee of the Java Community Process and chaired JSR 166, which added concurrency utilities to the Java programming language.

He wrote Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns, one of the first books about the subject. It is currently in its second edition.

He is also the author of dlmalloc[1], a widely-used public-domain implementation of malloc.

[edit] External links

• Java Community Process Executive Committee
• JSR 166: Concurrency Utilities
• gee.cs.oswego.edu , Doug Lea's workstation and host machine of the JSR166R interest group website, and host machine of the fork/join that will be featured in Java 7.
• Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns