O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference - March 6-9, 2006

Speaker

Sam Ruby
Emerging Technologies Group, IBM
http://www.ibm.com/us/

Sam Ruby is a senior technical staff member in the Emerging Technologies group at IBM and is involved in a host of open source initiatives. He is a member of the Board of Directors and vice president of the Apache Software Foundation and a developer on the Apache Soap project. He is also the chairman of the Jakarta project, whose mission is to provide commercial-quality server solutions based on the Java Platform, developed in an open and cooperative fashion. He is a member of the XML PMC, and a member of the ECMA TC39 group standardizing the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) for the .NET Framework. He is also a member of the PHP group, a select group of developers who contribute to core PHP. Ruby holds a bachelor of arts degree in math from Christopher Newport College.