Croft, David Wallace

David Wallace Croft is a Java software architect with a professional background in
Java game development. He formerly served as the president of the Silicon Valley
Java Users Group and is the founder of the Game Developers Java Users Group.
Croft earned his bachelor's degree from the United States Air Force Academy in 1990 and his master's degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1995.

After a brief career in neural network chip design, he joined an online Internet multiplayer game startup in 1996 and has been programming in Java exclusively ever since. While