Richard M. Reese has worked in both industry and academia. For 17 years, he worked in the telephone and aerospace industries, serving in several capacities, including research and development, software development, supervision, and training. He currently teaches at Tarleton State University. Richard has written several Java books and a C Pointer book. He uses a concise and easy-to-follow approach to teaching about topics. His Java books have addressed EJB 3.1, updates to Java 7 and 8, certification, functional programming, jMonkeyEngine, and natural language processing.
AshishSingh Bhatia is a learner, reader, seeker, and developer at core. He has over 10 years of IT experience in different domains, including banking, ERP, and education. He is persistently passionate about Python, Java, R, and web and mobile development. He is always ready to explore new technologies.
I would like to first and foremost thank my loving parents and friends for their continued support, patience, and encouragement.
Doug Ortiz is an experienced enterprise cloud, big data, data analytics, and solutions architect who has designed, developed, re-engineered, and integrated enterprise solutions. His other expertise is in Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud, business intelligence, Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL databases, and SharePoint, to mention just a few.
He is the founder of Illustris, LLC, and is reachable at [email protected].
Huge thanks to my wonderful wife, Milla, as well as Maria, Nikolay, and our children for all their support.
Paraskevas V. Lekeas received his PhD and MS in CS from the NTUA, Greece, where he conducted his postdoc on algorithmic engineering, and he also holds degrees in math and physics from the University of Athens. He was a professor at the TEI of Athens and the University of Crete before taking an internship at the University of Chicago. He has extensive experience in knowledge discovery and engineering, having addressed many challenges for startups and for corporations using a diverse arsenal of tools and technologies. He is leading the data group at H5, helping H5 advancing in innovative knowledge discovery.
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