Ed Burns
Consulting Member of the Technical Staff
Oracle America, Inc.
Ed Burns is a senior Java engineer at Oracle. Ed has worked on a wide variety of client and server side Web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plugin, Jakarta Tomcat and, most recently JavaServer Faces. Ed is currently the co-spec lead for JSR 127, JavaServer Faces, a topic on which Ed recently co-authored a book for McGraw-Hill. Ed is an experienced international conference speaker, with consistently high attendance numbers and ratings at the JavaOne conference, JAOO, W-JAX, No Fluff Just Stuff, JA-SIG, The Ajax Experience, and JUGs and Linux User Groups.
Ed has a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While at UIUC, Ed took a minor in Germanic Studies and worked for IBM in the co-op program, where he first acquired a fondness for computer history by working on System 370 Office Software.
Ed is a frequent speaker at international industry conferences, having presented many times at Oracle's JavaOneSM conference, given keynote addresses at the JAX conference in Mainz, the W-JAX conference in Munich, Germany and the Globalcode Developer's Conference in São Paulo, Brazil, and the JSFDays conference in Vienna Austria. In addition to keynotes, Ed has given technical sessions atnumerous international Java conferences including Javapolis, Jazoon, JAX-India, TheServerSide.com Java Symposium, No Fluff Just Stuff, the Ajax Experience, JAOO, and others, and also has spoken at many Java User Group meetings.
