Elliotte is originally from New Orleans to which he returns periodically in search of a decent bowl of gumbo. However, he currently resides in Brooklyn with his wife Beth and dog Thor. He's a frequent speaker at industry conferences including Software Development, Dr. Dobb's Architecture & Design World, SD Best Practices, Extreme Markup Languages, JavaWorld, and too many user groups to count. His fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Crossed Genres, and Daily Science Fiction in addition to numerous anthologies. His most recent books are Java Network Programming, 4th edition, and the JavaMail API, both from O’Reilly.

Andy Oram is an editor at O'Reilly Media, a highly respected book

publisher and technology information provider. An employee of the

company since 1992, Andy currently specializes in open source,

networking, and software engineering, but his editorial output has

ranged from a legal guide covering intellectual property to a graphic

novel about teenage hackers. His work for O'Reilly includes the

influential 2001 title Peer-to-Peer, the 2005 ground-breaking book

Running Linux, and the 2007 best-seller Beautiful Code.

Andy also writes often for O'Reilly's Radar site

(http://radar.oreilly.com/) and other publications on policy issues

related to the Internet and on trends affecting technical innovation

and its effects on society. Print publications where his work has

appeared include The Economist, Communications of the ACM, Copyright

World, and Internet Law and Business. His web site is

http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/.

Dr. Greg Wilson is a programmer, author, and educator based in Toronto. He co-founded and and was the first Executive Director of Software Carpentry, which has taught basic software skills to tens of thousands of researchers worldwide, and has authored or edited over a dozen books, including "Beautiful Code", "The Architecture of Open Source Applications", and most recently "Software Design by Example". Greg is a member of the Python Software Foundation and a recipient of ACM SIGSOFT's Influential Educator of the Year award.

Travis has a Ph.D. from the Mayo Clinic and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University. Since 1997, he has worked extensively with Python for numerical and scientific programming, most notably as the primary developer of the NumPy package, and as a founding contributor of the SciPy package. He is also the author of the definitive "Guide to NumPy".

Travis was an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at BYU from 2001-2007, where he taught courses in probability theory, electromagnetics, inverse problems, and signal processing. He also served as Director of the Biomedical Imaging Lab, where he researched satellite remote sensing, MRI, ultrasound, elastography, and scanning impedance imaging.

As CEO of Continuum Analytics, Travis engages customers in all industries, develops business strategy, and helps guide technical direction of the company. He actively contributes to software development and engages with the wider open source community in the Python ecosystem. He has served as a director of the Python Software Foundation and as a director of Numfocus.