Joshua Bloch

Google

Presentations:

• (5201) Effective Java Reloaded
• (5620) Java Puzzlers, Episode VI: The Phantom-Reference Menace/Attack of the Clone/Revenge of the Shift
• (5840) The Closures Controversy

Short bio

Joshua J. Bloch is a software engineer, currently a Principal Engineer at 
Google, and a technology author. He led the design and implementation of 
numerous Java platform features, including the Java Collections Framework, the 
java.math package, and the assert mechanism. He is the author of the programming 
guide Effective Java as well as the co-author of two other Java books.

Joshua Bloch holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University and a 
Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University.