Gastón C. Hillar has been working with computers since he was eight. He began programming with the legendary Texas TI-99/4A and Commodore 64 home computers in the early 80's.
He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science in which he graduated with honors, and he also has an MBA (Master in Business Administration) in which graduated with an outstanding thesis. He has worked as a developer, an architect, and project manager for many companies in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Now, he is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author always looking for new adventures around the world. He also works with electronics (he is an electronics technician). He is always researching new technologies and writing about them. He owns an IT and electronics laboratory with many servers, monitors, and measuring instruments.
He has written another book for Packt, "C# 2008 and 2005 Threaded Programming: Beginner's Guide".
He contributes to Dr. Dobb’s Go Parallel programming portal http://www.ddj.com/go-parallel/ and he is a guest blogger at Intel Software Network http://software.intel.com
He is the author of more than 40 books in Spanish about computer science, modern hardware, programming, systems development, software architecture, business applications, balanced scorecard applications, IT project management, the Internet, and electronics.
He usually writes articles for the Spanish magazines "Mundo Linux", "Solo Programadores" and "Resistor".
He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his son, Kevin. When not tinkering with computers, he enjoys developing and playing with wireless virtual reality devices and electronics toys with his father, his son, and his nephew Nico.
You can reach him at:< [email protected]>
You can follow him on Twitter at:http://twitter.com/gastonhillar
Gastón's blog is at: http://csharpmulticore.blogspot.com