Adam Dudczak works as a computer programmer and researcher in Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center. He is an experienced Java developer who has a broad experience in building large-scale content management systems. He has co-authored several papers in the fi eld of digital libraries, information retrieval, and text mining.
Adam is a leader of the Poznan Java User Group (http://www.jug.poznan.pl), and has organized numerous local Java-related events including Poznan NetBeans day and NetBeans Platform training. He is also a member of the GeeCON conference (http:/geecon.org) organizing committee.
In his free time he teaches Java development at Poznan University of Technology and writes a blog: http://dudczak.info/dry.
Laurențiu Matei holds a master's degree in Systems and Computer Science from Politehnica University in Bucharest.
He works for MrSwing, a fi nancial software company, as senior developer and for 8Seconds, an e-mail optimization company, as head of research and development.
His main interests are web development, clustering, and multi-tier architecture.
His best skills are combined in the open source project Chartsy.org, a stock trading, screening and charting platform based on the NetBeans Platform.
Holger Stenzhorn studied computational linguistics at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany and is currently a research associate at the Department of Paediatric Oncology and Hematology of the Saarland University Hospital in Homburg, Germany. Before, he had positions as a researcher at the Institute for Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics of the Freiburg University Medical Center, Germany and the Institute of Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science in Saarbrücken, Germany, and he was also visiting researcher at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute in Galway, Ireland, before he worked as a software engineer at XtraMind Technologies in Saarbrücken, Germany.
His work focuses on the representation and management of information and data, ontologies and Semantic Web technologies, biomedical informatics, natural language processing, user interfaces and software design and development. In the past he has participated in the development of multilingual document retrieval, information extraction, and natural language generation systems, both in industry and academia.
He has been involved in several ontology engineering and application tasks: an ontology for clinical trials on nephroblastoma and breast cancer (EU-funded ACGT project), an ontology for the research on cerebral aneurysms (EU-funded @neurIST project) as well as the BioTop top-domain ontology. His main work at the moment focuses on developing a software system (ObTiMA) for the improved management of clinical trials. Further, he is a member of the Healthcare and Life Sciences Interest Group of the World Wide Web Consortium.