Professional Rich Internet Applications: AJAX and Beyond

603 Pages·2007·16.2 MB·English

by  Dana Moore

Professional
Rich Internet Applications:
AJAX and Beyond
Dana Moore
Raymond Budd
Edward Benson

Professional
Rich Internet Applications:
AJAX and Beyond

Professional
Rich Internet Applications:
AJAX and Beyond
Dana Moore
Raymond Budd
Edward Benson
Professional Rich Internet Applications: AJAX and Beyond
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About the Authors
Dana Moore is a division scientist with BBN Technologies and is an acknowledged expert in the fields
ofpeer-to-peer and collaborative computing, software agent frameworks, and assistive environments.
Prior to joining BBN, Dana was chief scientist for Roku Technologies, and a Distinguished Member of
Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories. Dana is a popular conference speaker, a university lecturer, and has
published both articles for numerous computing publications, and books, including Peer-to-Peer: Building
Secure, Scalable, and Manageable Networksand Jabber Developer Handbook.Dana holds a master of science
degree in technology management from the University of Maryland, and a bachelor of science in indus-
trial design, also from the University of Maryland.
Raymond Budd is a software engineer with BBN Technologies. He has designed, developed, and sup-
ported a variety of Web applications and other distributed systems in Java, Ruby, and Python. He has
been published in several conference proceedings, such as the Eighteenth National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, and journals, including Applied Intelligence. Additional areas of interest include
knowledge representations, knowledge engineering, and distributed planning and scheduling.
Hereceived a bachelor of science degree in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh.
Edward (Ted) Benson is a software engineer with BBN Technologies. His experience and interests
include distributed programming frameworks, multi-agent systems, Web development, and knowledge
representation. Ted has developed Web applications for several community groups and companies, and
he has been published in IEEE conference proceedings on the subjects of distributed and multi-agent
systems. He gradated summa cum laudefrom the University of Virginia with a bachelor of science degree
in computer science.

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