Douglas S. Lea is a

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and current head of the

department at State University of New York at Oswego, where he specializes in

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and the design of concurrent data structures. He was on the Executive Committee of the

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and chaired JSR 166, which added concurrency

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to the

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(see

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). On October 22, 2010, Doug Lea notified the

Executive Committee he would not stand for reelection. Lea was re-elected as an at-large member for the 2012

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governing board.

Publications

He wrote ''Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns'', one of the first books about the subject. It is currently in its second edition. He is also the author of

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, a widely used public-domain implementation of

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Awards

In 2010, he won the senior Dahl-Nygaard Prize. In 2013, he became a

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.ACM Names Fellows for Computing Advances that Are Transforming Science and Society
, Association for Computing Machinery, accessed 2013-12-10.

Bibliography

* ''Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns'', first edition: 1997; second edition: , 1999 * ''Java Concurrency in Practice'', , 2006 (co-authored with

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, Tim Peierls, Joseph Bowbeer, and David Holmes)

References

External links

Doug Lea's home page

Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and PatternsJava Community Process Executive CommitteeJSR 166: Concurrency Utilities
American computer scientists American computer programmers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people State University of New York at Oswego faculty Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Dahl–Nygaard Prize {{compu-bio-stub