MageLang Institute Welcomes Alex Chaffee and Richard Wallace to jGuru Training and Community Team.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 1999-- Java Technology Experts to Deliver Courses and Community to Software Developers The MageLang Institute today announced that two recognized authorities on Java technology development have joined the company's team of jGuru instructors. Alexander Day Chaffee and Richard S. Wallace, Ph.D. will become "software gurus" in the company. "These additions to MageLang's core team are a sign of our commitment to supplying the ultimate in technical expertise to Java platform Running Java programs under the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Java "platform" refers to the running of Java programs versus Java itself, which is a programming language. Java programs are machine independent and run intact on any hardware platform that has a Java interpreter (JVM). software developers," said Thomas Burns Thomas Burns may refer to
"I'm psyched to join MageLang," said Alex Chaffee. "The company really stands out in the Java technology training space. jGuru's instructors are all incredibly smart and knowledgeable, and jGuru course materials have always impressed me with their thoroughness and accuracy." "I am very pleased to have the opportunity to work with the jGuru team," said Richard Wallace Richard Wallace may refer to:
As the Director of Software Engineering for EarthWeb Inc., Alex Chaffee co-created Gamelan gamelan Indigenous orchestra of Java and Bali and, more generally, of Indonesia and Malaysia. A gamelan usually consists largely of gongs, xylophones, and metallophones (rows of tuned metal bars struck with a mallet). Gamelan polyphony is complex and many-voiced. , the official directory for the Java technology community. He has presented at numerous user groups and conferences, written articles for Java technology magazines, and contributed to the book, The Official Gamelan Java Directory. Alex brings a strong teaching background to MageLang courses. He is an expert in object oriented programming and design, user interface design, website administration, and systems programming in Unix, MacOS, and Windows. Richard Wallace is the author of more than 60 technical publications and holds four US patents. His work has appeared in The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, Wired, the Boston Globe, EE Times, HP E-Business, PCAI PCAI Prevent Child Abuse Iowa , USA Today, and on ZDTV ZDTV Ziff Davis Television . His work has also appeared in numerous foreign language publications in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. In 1995, Richard began work on ALICE, a natural language chatterbot See chat bot. chatterbot - chatbot on the World Wide Web. The chat robot server is an Open Source Java application implementing an extensible Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML (AI Markup Language) An extension to XML used for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. See ALICE. ). ALICE chats with thousands of people on the Web daily. About jGuru MageLang's jGuru, a community for Java technology developers (http://www.jguru.com/) promotes the Java platform through education, community building, research, and research application. The web-based service, which is presented in cooperation with the Hewlett-Packard Company's IT Resource Center (http://ITResourceCenter.hp.com), includes news and opinion, education and training, a library of in-depth information on Java technology and software development, and a software and tools area. At the heart of the jGuru community are the instructors, or software gurus, who spend their time investigating the possibilities and potential of Java technology. Their goal is to understand the technology at the deepest levels and continually generate knowledge to apply to courses, seminars, presentations, articles, books, and software. About MageLang Institute MageLang Institute (http://www.magelang.com) was founded in 1995 to promote the growth of the Java technology community. The company has become a successful developer of knowledge for Java technology and a provider of customized, premium Java courses delivered by a group of exceptionally talented and experienced software developers. The company is committed to Java technology because of its object oriented methodology, network distribution, portability, and open platform. MageLang Institute online tutorials appear on Sun Microsystems Java Developer Connection (http://java.sun.com/jdc), technical articles and columns written by the company's technical staff appear regularly in JavaWorld (http://www. javaworld.com) magazine, and 17 technical books have been authored by the technical staff and published by leading industry publishers. Customers of MageLang Institute include Adaptec Incorporated, Caterpillar (CAT), Cisco Systems, Excite Incorporated, Federal Express, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Lucent Technologies, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. Jet Propulsion Lab, Stanford University, Warburg Dillon Read Investment bank created by the 1997 merger of S.G. Warburg & Co. and Dillon, Read & Co. Subsequently renamed UBS Warburg and now part of UBS AG, where the Warburg name was eventually dropped. , and others. Note to Editors: jGuru is a trademark of MageLang Institute. Java is a US trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
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