Jim Coplien is a member of the Software Production Research Department in 
Bell Laboratories, and is a Visiting Professor at University of Manchester
Institute of Science and Technology.  He holds a BS in Electrical and
Computer Engineering, an MS in Computer Science, both from the University
of Wisconsin at Madison, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Vrije
Universiteit Brussel.  His early career work includes applied research
in software development environments, version and configuration management
models, and in object-oriented design and programming.

His current research areas include ethnography, software composition,
multi-pardigm design and architectural patterns of telecommunications software.

He is author of "C++ Programming Styles and Idioms," the foremost high-end
C++ book in the industry, and of "Multi-Paradigm Design for C++."
He was co-editor of two volumes of "Pattern Languages of Program
Design."  He writes a patterns column for the C++ Report.  He is a Member
Emeritus of the Hillside Group, a small consortium of industry leaders providing
industry-wide leadership and support in the pattern discipline.  He was
program chair of ACM OOPSLA '96 and program co-chair of the First
International South Pacific Conference on Pattern Languages of Program
Design.