About the Author

Craig Larman is the author of the popular college and industry text Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, published by Prentice Hall PTR. He is the co-author with Rhett Guthrie of Java 2 Performance and Idiom Guide, also from Prentice Hall PTR. Craig is a regular speaker at conferences on the subjects of patterns, analysis and design, and distributed object systems design. He also writes the Java and Modeling column in Java Report. He works as a technical director at Valtech, an international consulting firm. He has been using object technologies since 1984 when he started developing knowledge systems on LISP machines. For well over a decade he has assisted others in developing object systems and in learning object-oriented analysis and design, C++, Java, and Smalltalk.

Craig holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science, with research emphasis in artificial intelligence, object-oriented knowledge representation, and case-based reasoning.

Contact the Author

You can reach Craig Larman via email at clarman@acm.org.