Joshua Bloch has designed APIs for over a quarter of a century. He was Chief Java Architect at Google and Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. He led the design and implementation of numerous Java APIs and language features. He is the author of several books, including the bestselling, Jolt Award-winning Effective Java (Addison-Wesley, 2001; Second Edition, 2008). He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon and a B.S. from Columbia.