Operating System Concepts with Java

Abraham Silberschatz is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor and
Chair of Computer Science at Yale University. Prior to joining
Yale, he was Vice President of the Information Sciences Research
Center at Bell Laboratories. Prior to that, he held a chaired
professorship in the Depart of Computer Sciences at the University
of Texas at Austin.
Professor Silberschatz is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He
received the 2002 IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award, the 1998
ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Education Award, and the 1997 ACM
SIGMOD Contribution Award. In recognition of his outstanding level
of innovation and technical excellence, he was awarded the Bell
Laboratories President?s Award for three different Projects
? the QTM Project (1998), the DataBlitz Project (1999), and
the NetInventory Project (2004).


Professor Silberschatz?s writings have appeared in
numerous AVM and IEEE publications and other professional
conferences and journals. He is a coauthor of the textbook
Database Systems Concepts. He has also written Op-Ed
articles for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the Hartford
Courant, among others.


Peter Baer Galvin is the chief technologist for Corporate
Technologies (www.cptech.com),
a computer facility reseller and integrator. Before that, Mr.
Galvin was systems manager for Brown University?s Computer
Science Department. He is also Sun columnist for ;login: magazine.
Mr. Galvin has written articles for Byte and other magazines, and
has written columns for SunWorld and SysAdmin magazines. As a
consultant and trainer, he has given talks and taught tutorials on
security and system administration worldwide.


Greg Gagne is chair of the Computer Science department at
Westminister College in Salt Lake City where he has been teaching
since 1990. In addition to teaching operating systems, he also
teaches computer networks, distributed systems, and software
engineering. He also provides workshops to computer science
educators and industry professionals.