Joshua Bloch

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Joshua J. Bloch is a software engineer, currently a Principal Engineer at Google, and a technology author. He led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including the Java Collections Framework, the java.math package, and the assert mechanism.^[1] He is the author of the programming guide Effective Java, which won the 2001 Jolt Award^[2], and is a co-author of two other Java books, Java Puzzlers (2005) and Java Concurrency In Practice (2006).

Bloch holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.^[1] His 1990 thesis was titled A Practical Approach to Replication of Abstract Data Objects^[3] and was nominated for the ACM Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.^[4]

Bloch has worked as a Senior Systems Designer at Transarc, and later as a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. In June 2004 he left Sun and became Chief Java Architect at Google.^[5]

In December 2004, Java Developers Journal included Bloch in its list of the "Top 40 Software People in the World".^[6]

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Effective Java, Second Edition, ISBN 978-0-321-35668-0, 2008
Effective Java: Programming Language Guide, ISBN 0201310058, 2001
Java Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases, ISBN 032133678X, 2005 (co-authored with Neal Gafter)
Java Concurrency in Practice, ISBN 0321349601, 2006 (co-authored with Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls, Joseph Bowbeer, David Holmes, and Doug Lea)