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Gary Cornell has a Ph.D. from Brown University, has been a visiting scientist at IBM Watson Labs, and has written or co-written 14 popular computer books.
Cay S. Horstmann teaches at San Jose State University. He has written two books on C++/object-oriented development, and is a columnist for Java Report.