Ghica van Emde Boas has worked for IBM in the Netherlands for 30 years: as relational database developer, as IT Architect, and as a Java developer involved with the largest Java framework ever written, the IBM SanFrancisco Framework. She has been taking part in the development of object-oriented methodologies within IBM. She taught these at IBM's Object Technology University in Belgium and the USA. Ghica participated in writing two IBM red books and she has published two articles, one in the IBM Journal of Research and Development, and one in the IBM Systems Journal. She has co-organized sever...