Ken Arnold

Ken Arnold

Biography

Ken Arnold, a Senior Staff Engineer with Sun Microsystems, is one of the original JiniTM technology architects, currently the Community Source lead. Ken was the original lead architect of JavaSpaces. He is a leading expert in object-oriented design and implementation. Ken is co-author of several books:


Ken is co-author of several books:

He also wrote extensively on C and C++ topics for UNIX Review, Before coming to Sun, Ken's experience includes being part of the original Hewlett-Packard architectural team designing CORBA, several user interface and UNIX projects at Apollo Computers, and molecular graphics at U.C. San Francisco. In olden days, he was part of the 4BSD team at U.C. Berkeley, where he created the curses library package for terminal-independent screen-oriented programs, and was co-author, with Mike Toy and Glen Wichman, of the computer game rogue. He received his A.B. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley in 1985.

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Abstract: What Is This Jini(tm) Stuff, Anyway?

The Jini(tm) architecture provides a way to deploy services in a network, and talk to services you've never seen before. Now that it's been released, what is happening with it, and what can happen with it?