Authors

Amy Unruh and Daniel Guermeur co-authored Google App Engine Java and GWT Application Development.

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Amy Unruh currently does technology training and course development, with a focus on web technologies. Previously, she has been a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, where she taught web technologies and researched robust distributed agent systems; worked at several startups, building web applications using a variety of languages; served as adjunct faculty at the University of Texas; and was a member of the Distributed Agents Program at MCC. She received her Ph.D. in CS/AI from Stanford University, in the area of AI planning, and has a BS degree in CS from UCSB. She has numerous publications, and has co-edited a book on Safety and Security in Multiagent Systems.


Daniel Guermeur - @supercobra - is the founder and CEO of Metadot Corporation. Daniel holds a Diplome d’Ingenieur of Informatique from University of Technology of Compiegne (France) as well as a Master in Photonics from Ecole Nationale Superieure de Physique of Strasbourg (France). Before starting Metadot in 2000, he worked for oil services companies including giant Schlumberger Ltd where he helped improve the worldwide IT infrastructure.

Daniel Guermeur has been developing large scale database-backed web applications since the very beginning of the democratization of the Internet in 1995, including an open source software content management system Metadot Portal Server, Mojo Helpdesk, a web-based customer support application and Montastic, a popular website monitor service. He also created Das Keyboard, a mechanical keyboard that makes people type faster.