Steve Vinoski, IONA

Steve Vinoski is Chief Engineer of Product Innovation for IONA Technologies in Waltham, MA. Steve is also an IONA Fellow. Steve joined IONA in December 1996 to start IONA's US-based Engineering organization and to lead the development of IONA's next-generation Adaptive Runtime Technology (ART), a highly flexible and high performance distributed computing engine that underlies IONA's products.

As of the start of 2003, Steve has authored or co-authored approximately 50 highly-regarded publications about distributed computing. He and Michi Henning are the co-authors of "Advanced CORBA Programming with C++", published in January 1999 by Addison Wesley Longman and widely acknowledged as the "CORBA Bible," and he has written the popular "Object Interconnections" column on distributed object computing for the C/C++ Users Journal (and formerly for SIGS C++ Report) since 1995 with Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt. He also writes the "Toward Integration" column for the IEEE Internet Computing magazine. Steve is a member of the editorial boards for the IEEE Internet Computing Magazine and the International Journal of Web Services Research.

A frequent conference speaker, Steve has traveled to many parts of the world giving tutorials and keynote speeches about topics such as CORBA, ART, and Web Services. Steve's current interests revolve around the market development aspects of innovation, and around the Eclipse open source application platform.

Steve holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Christian Brothers College (now Christian Brothers University) in Memphis, TN. He is a member of both the IEEE and ACM.