P.J. Plauger is President of Dinkumware, Ltd., which licenses the standard-conforming C and C++ libraries and on-line documentation that he develops. Until recently, he was Senior Editor of The C/C++ Users Journal and Contributing Editor to Embedded Systems Programming. He also wrote a monthly column for both publications for more than a decade. He is a writer and consultant in the field of computer programming. He has written over a dozen textbooks and hundreds of articles for a variety of periodicals. He presents invited seminars at conferences in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan. He has been active in the development of international standards, most notably for the programming languages C and C++. Dr. Plauger also occasionally finds time to write science fiction.