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Alan Bateman is an architect in the Java Platform group in Oracle.

I work in the Java Platform Group at Oracle designing the Java programming language and virtual machine. I am also a member of the Programming Languages Research Group at Oracle Labs. I am based in Cambridge, UK.
My mission is to keep Java as a leading language and platform for developers around the world. Given my background as a researcher, I am especially keen to find, adapt and transfer ideas and techniques from the research community and get them into the hands of Java programmers. I spend much of my time working on Java’s industry-leading specifications.
I joined Oracle in March 2014. Previously I was a senior researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge from March 2004 until February 2014. Before that I was a University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and a Fellow, College Lecturer and Director of Studies at St John’s College, Cambridge. I studied for my PhD at the University of Cambridge, and for my BSc at Imperial College, London.

Per Minborg works in the Java Core Library team at Oracle and is also a member of the Panama project team. He is an inventor and developer with more than 20 years of Java coding experience. He has been a frequent contributor to various open-source projects, is a regular speaker at events, Oracle JavaOne alumnus, and co-author of the publication Modern Java.

Stuart Marks is the JDK Core Libraries project lead in the Java
Platform Group at Oracle. His areas of expertise include Collections,
Lambdas, and Streams. As his alter ego "Dr Deprecator" he also works
on Java's deprecation mechanism. Stuart previously worked on JavaFX
and Java ME at Sun Microsystems. He has over thirty years of software
platform product development experience in the areas of window
systems, interactive graphics, payments, and mobile and embedded
systems. Stuart holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and a
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

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