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Joshua Bloch

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February 2003 Josh is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he is an architect in the Core Java Platform Group. He designed and implemented the award-winning Java Collections Framework and the java.math package, and contributed to many other parts of the platform. Joshua is the author of numerous articles and papers. His Ph.D. thesis on the replication of abstract data objects was nominated for the ACM Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award. 

He is author of Effective Java Programming Language Guide, Addison-Wesley, ISBN: 0-201-31005-8.

He holds a B.S. from Columbia University and a PhD from Carnegie-Melon University.